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August 2nd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda He said early indications suggested the failed attack was linked to the Pakistan-based Haqqani Network branch of the insurgents.
He said: “They wanted to enter the city early this morning and take tall buildings. They were going to wear women’s burkas as a disguise.
“At around 1am we surrounded the house and forces called on them to surrender. Those inside refused and we began to fire on them.”
There were no casualties among civilians or the security forces, he said, and most of the bombers had died when they detonated their own explosives during the shoot-out.
Taliban militants have launched a string of headline-grabbing attacks on the capital in recent years. Coalition commanders have said they are little more than a propaganda tool by a weakening insurgent movement and the bombings and sieges have achieved little other than headlines.
Each attack has paralysed Kabul though and fed the perception that Hamid Karzai’s government and his Nato backers are unable to secure the capital despite their claims to have reversed the Taliban’s momentum.
Seizing high buildings to use as firing positions into embassies and military bases has become a favoured insurgent tactic.
An unregulated building boom fed by drug and aid money has left many poorly secured, half-finished blocks on Kabul’s skyline.
In April, suicide teams seized buildings overlooking the embassy district and the parliament, triggering a lockdown of much of the central city and a nearly 24-hour-long siege.
In September 2011, militants seized another building to fire rocket-propelled grenades into the American embassy and Nato headquarters.
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