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April 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Seventeen hours of fighting ended soon after dawn yesterday when Afghan
soldiers stormed a half-built tower block overlooking Kabul’s diplomatic
quarter and killed six fighters.
Those in the tower were the last holdouts of a multifaceted attack which saw
fighting in up to seven sites in Kabul and in three cities in eastern
Afghanistan.
Witnesses described Afghan commandos clearing the tower floor-by-floor
overnight to dislodge the militants who had seized it as a base to launch
rocket and machine gun attacks into nearby diplomatic missions, including
the British embassy.
Despite Nato claims that Afghan forces had dealt with the attacks on their
own, witnesses said British and Norwegian special forces troops had been
with the commandos and had fired heavy weapons into the tower. The Ministry
of Defence in London declined to comment.
“It was an international organised operation, but it was Afghan-led,”
said a former British Army officer who watched from a nearby compound.
“The Afghans provided the muscle, the internationals provided the
direction.”
Anti-tank rockets and strafing runs from Blackhawk helicopters were used on
the militants, before the Afghan commandos moved up through the building in
the early hours of Monday, he said.
The assault teams used ladders on scaffolding around the building to avoid the
building’s two staircases, and threw grenades into each level before one man
rushed up with a pistol, followed by his comrades.
Afghan officials left the dead attackers, covered in brick dust and blood,
sprawled on the concrete staircases where they had been shot, as they showed
journalists around the tower hours later.
The attackers all appeared in their late teens or early twenties and wore
local dress.
Seddiq Seddiqui, spokesman for the ministry of interior, said: “It’s too
early to comment on intelligence failures. Our answer is that the Taliban
were beaten hard, we controlled the damage and if they even dream of doing
this again, they will face the same consequences.”
A total of 36 insurgent fighters died across Afghanistan, he said. One
attacker captured in Nangarhar province was said to have confessed the
operations were carried out by the Haqqani Network, an autonomous Taliban
faction alleged to have close ties to sections of Pakistan’s military.
Eight members of the Afghan security forces and three civilians also died,
with about 40 members of the security forces and 25 civilians were injured.
Nato played down the significance of the attacks.
“They were not able to penetrate the most sensitive areas, the diplomatic
zone,” a senior alliance official said.
“They were able to penetrate until outside and to lob a few grenades into
the zone.”
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