Official: Haqqani network blamed for Kabul attacks

By Agencies in Kabul | China Daily | Updated: 2012-04-17 08:10

Afghan policemen stand guard near the building where Taliban fighters launched an attack in Kabul on Monday. Afghan forces regained control of Kabul on Monday after killing Taliban militants, some disguised as women in burqas, who launched one of the biggest attacks on the capital in a decade of war in which a total of 47 people were killed. Massoud Hossaini / Agence France-Presse

A militant arrested in the attacks on the Afghan capital and three other cities has confessed that the 18-hour assault was carried out by the Haqqani network, a lethal group of fighters with ties to the Taliban and al-Qaida, a top Afghan security official said on Monday.