Coalition Raid Ends Attack on a Kabul Hotel

Coalition Raid Ends the Attack on a Kabul Hotel Suicide bombers stormed the Intercontinental in the Afghan Capital
Omar Sobhani / Reuters

Explosion
Smoke rises from the Intercontinental hotel as a NATO helicopter flies overhead, in Kabul, June 29, 2011. A more than four-hour standoff between militants and Afghan police at the Inter-Continental hotel ended early Wednesday when NATO helicopters fired rockets at gunmen on the rooftop of the besieged hotel and Afghan security forces stormed the top of the building.

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