Afghan forces battling several militants holed up in a UN guest house.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP544593.htm
UPDATE:
“Taliban kill six foreigners in attack on Kabul UN hostel”
Wednesday, 28 Oct, 2009
PHOTO CAPTION: “An Afghan police officer carries an injured unidentified German national as smoke bellows from the site of the attack in Kabul, October 28, 2009. — AP”
SNIPPET: “KABUL: Taliban suicide gunmen stormed a UN hostel in central Kabul Wednesday, killing at least six foreigners in an assault that the militants warned marked a bloody countdown to new Afghan elections.”
SNIPPET: “‘Three suicide bombers have been killed during the police operation, they were armed suicide bombers,’ Afghan interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said.
‘Unfortunately six foreigners have been killed, five foreigners have been wounded,’ he told AFP, without giving further details.
United Nations spokesman Aleem Siddique confirmed earlier that three UN staff members staying at the Bachter Guesthouse were killed.
One police officer and one intelligence officer had also been killed, an Afghan soldier at the site of the attack said, adding that four men and one woman were among the dead.”
SNIPPET: “One policeman on the ground, who did not give his name, said there had been a huge blast inside the guesthouse.”
SNIPPET: “‘We claim responsibility,’ Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed told AFP by telephone. ‘This is the first step, as we have warned that we will disrupt the second round of the elections.’
Speaking from an undisclosed location, he said three militants wearing suicide vests packed with explosives and armed with automatic weapons were involved in the raid.”