Taliban spokesmen confirmed an early morning attack on the grounds of the Afghan Presidential Palace in Kabul, saying the attack was directed primarily at a neighboring CIA base.
The attack showed a shocking ability of Taliban fighters to infiltrate the most secure areas of the nation, with two carloads of fighters using forged papers to bluff past multiple checkpoints before pounding the CIA office with a rocket launcher.
Overall casualties on the ground still aren’t clear, though the Afghan government maintains all eight attackers died in the incident, and at least three palace guards were confirmed killed in one of the simultaneous attacks meant at distracting forces from the primary target.
Amazingly, however, the initial reports are that no civilians were killed. This is particularly surprising since the palace got hit just ahead of a press conference, and a large number of press had gathered, and were forced to flee in a hail of gunfire.
This is yet another un winnable presidential/s wars which is lost. Same old story different faces.
It's all about negotiations. When entities at war decide to work out a deal, they escalate the violence to give themselves bargaining chips and negotiating points. Expect lots of dramatic stuff in the coming year.
I thought ISAF had made Kabul "safe"
It will be a few days for the truth to leak out about the real casualties inflicted. As has been proved over the past few years, the truth is the first casualty in a war and as everyone knows, you can't have reports of failures coming out when you're trying to convince the public that you are winning. Of course, they'll say that there were no CIA personnel actually in the building that was targeted…wrong building, of course.