Taliban militants launch attacks on the presidential palace in Kabul and government sites

Afghan security sources said Monday 18/1/2010 that about 10 gunmen attacked the presidential palace and clashed with police forces and have taken control of government buildings and banks in the capital, Kabul, in an explosion was heard for the second time near the presidential palace.

And announced that the NATO force in Afghanistan said in a statement that the police killed two attackers, who are waging a coordinated operations adopted by the Taliban in central Kabul, while the Ministry of Health reported the injury of at least 13 people, mostly civilians, were wounded.

Ahmed Farid Rehaid El spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Health, "Up to now, 13 people, mostly civilians, were injured and taken to hospitals." "We mostly civilians, but there are also elements of the security forces."

It also announced the international force to establish security in Afghanistan (ISAF) said in a statement that Afghan police killed two of the attackers, at least.

Loud explosions were strong throughout the period before noon in the center of the capital accompanied by heavy fire with machine guns. A spokesman for the Taliban to twenty of the movement suicide bombers launched a new attack Monday on the presidential palace and ministries in the center of the capital.

He said Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban leadership from an undisclosed location "this we did. And targets attacked were the presidential palace, ministries of justice, finance, mining and the Central Bank."

"He has entered Twenty Anthariena the region and the fighting going on," adding that a suicide bomber detonated his explosives belt at the entrance to the presidential palace.