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April 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The attacks raise fears over the precarious security situation in Afghanistan
as Nato prepares to withdraw its 130,000 troops by the end of 2014 and hand
responsibility for security to Afghan forces.
But Nato was quick to hail the performance of the Afghans.
“I am enormously proud of how quickly Afghan security forces responded
to today’s attacks in Kabul,” said ISAF commander General John Allen.
“They were on scene immediately, well-led and well-coordinated. They
integrated their efforts, helped protect their fellow citizens and largely
kept the insurgents contained.”
However, the fact that so many militants had managed to make it through
Kabul’s so-called “Ring of Steel” checkpoints and attack high
value targets in the heart of the capital has raised questions about lapses
in security.
“That they did manage to pull off simultaneous complex attacks shows
quite a level of sophistication in preventing detection … so that would be
a failure in intelligence,” said Martine van Bijlert of the Afghanistan
Analysts’ Network.
“But having said that, in a big bustling city like Kabul it is
incredibly difficult to stop this type of attack,” she said.
US Ambassador Ryan Crocker said the ability of Afghan security forces to
respond to the attacks was a “clear sign of progress”, while ISAF
labelled the attacks “largely ineffective”.
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, later called Crocker to discuss
the “cowardly” attacks, the State Department said, and asked him
to convey to Karzai her appreciation for the “swift and effective
response” of Afghan forces.
The US, British, German and Japanese embassy compounds came under fire as
militants attacked the city’s diplomatic enclave and tried to storm
parliament, sparking a gun battle as lawmakers and bodyguards fired back
from the rooftop.
Outside the capital, militants attacked government buildings in Logar
province, the airport in Jalalabad, and a police facility in the town of
Gardez in Paktya province, where a Nato helicopter was reportedly deployed
against them.
The attacks were one of the biggest assaults on the capital in 10 years of war
in terms of their spread and co-ordination, observers say, even if the final
death toll was relatively low.
In September last year Taliban attacks targeting locations including the US
embassy and headquarters of foreign troops in Kabul killed at least 14
during a 19-hour siege.
And in August, nine people were killed when suicide bombers attacked the
British Council cultural centre.
Source: agencies
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