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Tuesday's attacks seem to be a complex operation. At about 13:30 local time (09:00 GMT), insurgents fired rockets at a number of objectives in the upscale district of Kabul embassy.
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In the west of the city, two suicide bombers detonated explosives outside a police station.



A third was killed when he tried to do at the airport. Jailed by the intelligence services was also a target.

Six gunmen seized an unfinished high-rise building near the roundabout of Abdul Haq, overlooking the embassy district, and used it to shoot the compound of the NATO and U.S. embassy.

A Taliban spokesman said the group was carrying out "massive suicide attack in the local intelligence services and foreign."

NATO and the U.S. Embassysaid none of its staff among the victims of the attack.

U.S. Marines were on the roof of the embassy building to assess the situation and check their defenses were tough, correspondents say. Military helicopters, including Black Hawks, flew over the area.



NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen condemned the violence, describing it as an attempt to test the delivery of the Afghan security forces led by Afghanistan, an effort that would not succeed.

"We have confidence in the ability of Afghan authorities to address this situation," Rasmussen said in Brussels. "The transition is underway and will continue." Warung Bebas Videos