The moment Nato ヘリコプター killed 自殺 爆撃機s hiding on roof after 強襲，強姦 on Kabul hotel leaves 19 dead

• Taliban attack on hotel popular with 西部の人／西洋人s kills hotel 労働者s, a 裁判官 and Afghan police officers
  
• Two Nato ヘリコプターs called in because they had night-見通し 器具／備品
  
• Eight 自殺 爆撃機s and gunmen attacked hotel
  

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 11:29 BST, 29 June 2011

A ヘリコプター hovers over the hotel and in the next moment a trace of 解雇する／砲火／射撃 is seen hitting the roof.

Seconds later a 抱擁する 爆発 引き裂くs apart the roof of the InterContinental, 殺人，大当り three Taliban 自殺 爆撃機s who had 開始する，打ち上げるd a 特殊部隊員 強襲，強姦 on the building.

The 包囲, however, was still not over. Some hours later the last 謀反の blew himself up in a hotel room.

公式の／役人s said today that eleven 非軍事のs were killed in the 強襲，強姦 that has sent shock waves through the Afghan 資本／首都.

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Engaged: A Nato ヘリコプター 解雇する／砲火／射撃s a ミサイル on the roof of the Inte rcontinental hotel in Kabul this morning

An 爆発 on the roof of the hotel lights up the night sky

As the sun （機の）カム up, smoke still 噴出するd from the 荒廃させるd roof of the Intercontinental.

The attack on a five-storey, Western-style hotel in the 資本／首都 raised 疑問 about the ability of Afghan 安全 軍隊s to take 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 of 安全な・保証するing the nation from foreign 戦闘 軍隊s.

The 強襲，強姦 began at around 10pm yesterday eight 自殺 攻撃者s killed the guards and entered the building.

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During the next four hours, a number of 労働者s were killed as the men 嵐／襲撃するd through the hotel, which sits on a hill overlooking the city.

The 11 非軍事のs killed 含むd a 裁判官 from an 無名の 州, five hotel 労働者s and three Afghan policemen, Latifullah Mashal, the 広報担当者 of the Afghan 国家の Directorate for Securitym said.

He said no foreigners were killed, but two were の中で 14 people 負傷させるd in the attack. He did not 公表する／暴露する their 国籍s.

One guest, 指名するd as Jawid, said he jumped out a one-story window to 逃げる the 狙撃.

'I was running with my family,' he said. 'There was 狙撃. The restaurant was 十分な with guests.'
A police source said a wedding party was 進行中で when the attack happened and that the death （死傷者）数 could have been much higher.

Attack: Eleven Afghan 非軍事のs were killed when 自殺 爆撃機s and ひどく 武装した Taliban 謀反のs attacked the hotel

的: The Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul is popular with foreigners and Afghan 公式の／役人s

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The 攻撃者s were ひどく 武装した with machine guns, anti-航空機 武器s, ロケット／急騰する-propelled 手りゅう弾s, 手渡す 手りゅう弾s and 手りゅう弾 発射台s, the Afghan 公式の／役人s said. Afghan police 急ぐd to the scene and firefights broke out.

‘We were locked in a room. Everybody was 狙撃 and 解雇する／砲火／射撃ing,’ said Abdul Zahir Faizada, 長，率いる of the 地元の 会議 in Herat 州 in western Afghanistan. I heard a lot of 狙撃.’

The attack occurred the day before a 会議／協議会 was scheduled in Kabul to discuss 計画（する）s for Afghan 安全 軍隊s to take the lead for 安全な・保証するing an 増加するing number of areas of the country between now and 2014 when international 軍隊s are 推定する／予想するd to move out of 戦闘 役割s.

Afghans across the country were in the city to …に出席する, although it's not known who was staying at the の間の-大陸の.

Nazar Ali Wahedi, 長，指導者 of 知能 for Helmand 州 in the south who was …に出席するing the 会議／協議会, called the 加害者s ‘the enemy of 安定 and peace’ in Afghanistan.

‘Our room was 攻撃する，衝突する by several 弾丸s,’ said Wahedi. ‘We spent the whole night in our room.’

U.S. Army Maj. Jason Waggoner, a 広報担当者 for the U.S.-led 連合 fighting in Afghanistan, said the ヘリコプターs killed three gunmen and Afghan 安全 軍隊s （疑いを）晴らすing the hotel worked their way up to the roof and engaged the remaining 謀反のs.

As the ヘリコプターs attacked and Afghan 安全 軍隊s moved in, there were four 大規模な 爆発s.

公式の／役人s at the scene said the 爆破s occurred when 安全 軍隊s either 解雇する／砲火／射撃d on 自殺 爆撃機s or they blew themselves up.

After the gunmen were killed, the hotel lights that had been 黒人／ボイコットd out during the attack （機の）カム 支援する on.

Afghan 安全 乗り物s and 救急車s were 除去するing the dead and 負傷させるd from the area.

血まみれのd: 兵士s - believed to be international special 軍隊s - leave the scene of the 包囲

荒廃: Smoke was still 大波ing from the roof as the sun （機の）カム up over Kabul this morning

Afghan policemen keep watch: The attack has raised fresh questions over the country's ability to 扱う 安全

Hours later, however, the last of the 自殺 爆撃機s, who had been 穴を開けるd up in a room, blew himself up, the final 行為／法令／行動する of 暴力／激しさ of the night.

The Taliban （人命などを）奪う，主張するd 責任／義務 for the rare night-time attack in the 資本／首都 - an 明らかな 試みる／企てる to show that they remain potent にもかかわらず 激しい 圧力 from 連合 and Afghan 安全 軍隊s.

It （機の）カム いっそう少なく than a week after 大統領 Barack Obama 発表するd he was 身を引くing 33,000 U.S. 軍隊／機動隊s from Afghanistan and would end the American 戦闘 役割 by the end of 2014.

Taliban 広報担当者 Zabiullah Mujahid later 問題／発行するd a 声明 （人命などを）奪う，主張するing that Taliban 攻撃者s killed guards at a gate and entered the hotel.

‘One of our 闘士，戦闘機s called on a 動きやすい phone and said: “We have gotten の上に all the hotel 床に打ち倒すs and the attack is going によれば the 計画（する）. We have killed and 負傷させるd 50 foreign and 地元の enemies.

We are in the 回廊（地帯）s of the hotel now taking guests out of their rooms - mostly foreigners. We broke 負かす／撃墜する the doors and took them out one by one”.’

But Kabul Police 長，指導者 Gen. Mohammad Ayub Salangi said the death （死傷者）数 was only ten, who were all 雇うd at the hotel. He 供給するd no その上の 詳細（に述べる）s, but said 非，不，無 of the 会議／協議会 attendees staying at the hotel were 害（を与える）d.

‘There were no 死傷者s の中で the guests - either foreign or Afghan,’ he said. ‘No high-最高位の 政府 公式の／役人s were killed.’

Earlier on Tuesday, 公式の／役人s from the U.S., Pakistan and Afghanistan met in the 資本／首都 to discuss prospects for making peace with Taliban 謀反のs to end the nearly １０年間-long war.

'The fact that we are discussing 仲直り in 広大な／多数の／重要な 詳細（に述べる） is success and 進歩, but challenges remain and we are reminded of that on an almost daily basis by 暴力／激しさ,' Jawed Ludin, Afghanistan's 副 外務大臣, said at a news 会議／協議会.

'The important thing is that we 行為／法令／行動する and that we 行為／法令／行動する 緊急に and try to do what we can to put an end to 暴力／激しさ.'

強襲，強姦: Afghan 兵士s gather outside the hotel after the 包囲 finally （機の）カム to an end

Perimeter: The 包囲 only （機の）カム to an end after the 孤独な 生き残るing 自殺 爆撃機 blew himself up in a hotel room

The InterContinental - known 広範囲にわたって as the 'の間の-反対／詐欺' opened in the late 1960s - was the nation's first international 高級な hotel.

It has at least 200 rooms and was once part of an international chain. But when the Soviets 侵略するd Afghanistan in 1979, the hotel was left to fend for itself.

It was used by Western 新聞記者／雑誌記者s during the U.S.-led 侵略 of Afghanistan in 2001.

On November 23 2003, a ロケット／急騰する 爆発するd nearby, 粉々にするing windows but 原因（となる）ing no 死傷者s.

Twenty-two ロケット／急騰するs 攻撃する，衝突する the の間の-反対／詐欺 between 1992 and 1996, when 派閥の fighting convulsed Kabul under the 政府 of Burhanuddin Rabbani.

All the windows were broken, water mains were 損失d and the outside structure pockmarked.

Some, but not all, of the 損失 was 修理d during Taliban 支配する.

Attacks in the Afghan 資本／首都 have been 比較して rare, although 暴力／激しさ has 増加するd since the May 2 殺人，大当り of Osama 貯蔵所 Laden in a U.S. （警察の）手入れ，急襲 in Pakistan and the start of the Taliban's 年次の spring 不快な／攻撃.

嵐／襲撃する 軍隊: Afghan 兵士s on a road 近づく the hotel. The 包囲 was ended by 北大西洋条約機構 ヘリコプターs and 軍隊s

Staff at the same hotel clean up after a 爆弾 went off in its garden in November 2003 (とじ込み／提出する picture)

On June 18, 謀反のs wearing Afghan army uniforms 嵐／襲撃するd a police 駅／配置する 近づく the 大統領の palace and opened 解雇する／砲火／射撃 on officers, 殺人，大当り nine.

Late last month, a 自殺 爆撃機 wearing an Afghan police uniform infiltrated the main Afghan 軍の hospital, 殺人，大当り six 医療の students. A month before that, a 自殺 攻撃者 in an army uniform こそこそ動くd past 安全 at the Afghan 弁護 省, 殺人，大当り three people.

Other hotels in the 資本／首都 have also been 的d.

In January 2008, 交戦的なs 嵐／襲撃するd Kabul's most popular 高級な hotel, the Serena, 追跡（する）ing 負かす／撃墜する 西部の人／西洋人s who cowered in a gym during a 連係させた 強襲，強姦 that killed eight people. An American, a Norwegian 新聞記者／雑誌記者 and a Philippine woman were の中で the dead.

A 自殺 car 爆撃機 in December 2009, struck 近づく the home of a former Afghan 副／悪徳行為 大統領，／社長 and a hotel たびたび（訪れる）d by 西部の人／西洋人s, 殺人，大当り eight people and 負傷させるing nearly 40 in a 近隣 considered one of Kabul's safest.

And in February 2010, 謀反のs struck two 居住の hotels in the heart of Kabul, 殺人，大当り 20 people 含むing seven India ns, a French filmmaker and an Italian 外交官.

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