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A NATO military helicopter hovers over the building where Taliban militants took positions to launch attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan on September 13, 2011.
Tuesday, Sep. 13, 2011

Open quoteThe scale of today's attack is unprecedented. There was almost certainly either a break-down in security among the Afghans with responsibility for Kabul or an intelligence failure.Close quote

  • ANDREW EXUM,
  • senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, on the attacks by Taliban fighters at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul that killed 9 people and wounded 23
Photo: S. Sabawoon / EPA | Source: Reuters