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Intense attacks on Kandahar, the Taliban
Shen Taliban militants on Saturday, a series of attacks on government buildings in the city of Kandahar, the former stronghold of the movement in southern Afghanistan. As noted, medical sources to at least 12 wounded, said a Taliban spokesman said the attacks have caused many deaths.
And local authorities announced that ten, six of them suicide bombings, targeting government offices in Kandahar - the largest city in southern Afghanistan - including the complex, which houses the headquarters of the Governor, the Mayor's office and the offices of the intelligence agency. There were also reports of gunfire at another location in the city.
He said government spokesman Zalmay Ayoubi - who was speaking from a safe room inside the compound of the ruling - that the Taliban attacked a number of different locations, he said, adding that he could not only confirm the complex exposure Governor and the Mayor's Office of the attack.
According to officials at the main hospital in the city wounded at least 12 people, wounded each other in terms of surrounding them in an exchange of fire in the intelligence agency. And others injured in an exchange of gunfire around the compound of the Governor.
As there were no immediate reports of government casualties, said a Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousef Ahmadi said Taliban militants managed to enter the complex ruling, and that "many were killed in the attacks."
The Taliban said that a large number of gunmen poured into the city of Kandahar, from three locations, and Associated Press reporter said that the fire was concentrated in the back of the compound, near the residence of the Governor.
With the escalation of the sound of explosions, which began Saturday afternoon quick shop owners to shut down in all parts of the city and the streets were empty of pedestrians and cars, police prevented journalists from approaching the buildings under attack, as military helicopters flew over the area.
The attacks on Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks by the Taliban government enterprise, as attacks come one day after the Declaration of movement that the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden "would boost the morale of the mujahideen will give a new impetus for jihad against the invaders," and threatened to it will show its strength.
But Taliban spokesman Ahmadi said that today's attacks were not in retaliation for the killing of bin Laden, the plot that has been in the works for months, and today's attacks were planned in the last month.
