Dead Taliban Militant

Faline · #1 ● 11-02-2011, 08:53 AM

Afghan police forces carry the dead body of one of the six Taliban militants who were killed during a gun battle with Afghan and NATO forces in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday Sept. 14, 2011. The 20-hour insurgent attack in the heart of Kabul ended Wednesday morning after a final volley of helicopter gunfire as Afghan police ferreted out and killed the last few assailants who had taken over a half-built downtown building to fire on the nearby U.S. Embassy and NATO compounds.

Faline · #2 ● 11-02-2011, 08:55 AM

An Afghan policeman kicks the dead body of an insurgent on September 14, 2011 inside the building where Taliban fighters attacked the most heavily protected part of Kabul the day before. A coordinated Taliban assault on the Afghan capital was quelled on September 14 after raging for 19 hours in a hail of rockets, grenades and suicide blasts that left 14 dead and six foreign troops wounded. Afghan and foreign troops battled the insurgents who targeted the US embassy and NATO headquarters, sowing fear and confusion and raising fresh questions over the government’s ability to secure the country even after a ten-year war. The standoff ended when troops finally killed the two last insurgents who had held out overnight in a high-rise building under construction just a few hundred metres from the heavily guarded US embassy.