Taliban claim responsibility for assault in Afghanistan

Yahoo Sunday 15th April, 2012

According to Reuters , the Taliban claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks, "saying their main targets were the German and British embassies and the headquarters of Afghanistan's NATO-led force." Two rockets hit a British Embassy guard tower near Reuters' Kabul offices, the news service said. A supermarket near the German embassy was also struck.

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