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April 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
It soon emerged that the four heavily armed men Mr Zakir had seen had stormed
a nearby half-built tower block and were using it as a base from which they
could launch a rocket and machinegun assault on the diplomatic residences
and luxury hotels below.
Cars and pedestrians quickly deserted the main thoroughfares as shots crackled
above their heads and smoke rose from buildings struck by rockets. The
British and German embassies, as well as a Nato base in the district, were
all hit. As The Daily Telegraph reached the scene, soon after the attack
began, back streets were filling with Afghan commandos and snipers.
Commandos could be seen creeping along the balconies of adjoining buildings as
they manoeuvred into position to fire on the attackers. By last night
however, many hours after the attack began, the tower was still under siege.
The attack was one of the most brazen assaults on the Afghan capital in more
than 10 years since the American-led invasion.
In total, fighters armed with machine guns, rockets and suicide vests struck
eight sites across Kabul and three provincial capitals outside the city.
Some of the attackers were dressed as women in burkas.
One target in Kabul was the Afghan parliament building where several MPs and
their bodyguards told how they were forced to join forces with police
officers to repel the attackers.
“I shot up to 400 or 500 bullets from my Kalashnikov at the attackers,”
Mohammad Nahim Lalai Hamidzai, an MP from Kandahar said. “They fired two
rocket-propelled grenades at the parliament. The fight was around the
parliament, the Russian Embassy and Vice President Khalili’s house.”
Simultaneous assaults were meanwhile launched in three other cities in the
east, as a Taliban spokesman boasted the militants could “attack anywhere we
want”.
“These attacks are the beginning of the spring offensive and we had planned
them for months,” Zabihullah Mujahid said.
He claimed it was revenge for the burning of Korans in February at an American
air base north of Kabul and the massacre of 17 civilians by a rogue US
soldier in Kandahar. More violence would follow.
As night fell, fighting continued in at least two places in Kabul and the
evening calls to prayer were punctuated by occasional explosions or shots.
Nineteen insurgents died in the encounters across the country and two were
captured. Fourteen police officers and nine civilians were wounded, the
ministry of interior said.
The Foreign Office in London said British embassy staff had all been accounted
for, but were locked down in the embassy grounds.
William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said: “The Afghan National Security
Forces responded to the attacks bravely, promptly, and effectively, once
again illustrating the significant progress that has been made in ensuring
that Afghans can look after their own security.
“Britain stands with the government and people of Afghanistan as they work to
build a peaceful future.”
Sunday’s attack appeared to undermine Nato’s assertion that it has broken the
back of the Taliban-led insurgency to the point where it is incapable of
launching a coordinated offensive.
There will also be concern that heavily-armed militants managed to penetrate
the capital’s “ring of steel” and seize building sites in a repeat of
tactics used to attack the American embassy in September.
Despite the scale of Sunday’s attacks, the Nato coalition tried to dismiss
them as “largely ineffective” and said they proved the Afghan forces would
soon be ready to take charge of securing the country.
Gen John Allen, commander of the coalition, said he was “enormously proud” of
how the Afghan forces had performed.
And Ryan Crocker, the American Ambassador, said: “We’ve seen a very
professional performance by Afghan security forces. They are able to deal
with events like this on their own.”
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