How The SAS Defeated The Taliban At Kabul's Inter-Continental Hotel

Foreign soldiers leave the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul after a military operation. The hotel was attacked by gunmen on Tuesday. Photograph: Pedro Ugarte/AFP

Hotel Attack: How The SAS Defeated The Taliban -- NZHerald

The Taliban forces crept towards their target late at night, detonating a bomb and shooting at security guards to start their attack on Kabul's Inter-Continental Hotel.

Five hours later, with the building on fire and more than a dozen people dead, New Zealand SAS swooped low in a Black Hawk helicopter and ended the insurgents' resistance in a dramatic firefight.

Other SAS had cleared the building from the inside, with at least one suffering "moderate" injuries.

Prime Minister John Key called the actions "crucial" in the course of the battle.

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