TALIBAN militants attacked the Presidential Palace and CIA headquarters in Kabul today, successfully breaching the most secure perimeters of the Afghan capital in a demonstration of the group's stated intention to continue to fight through peace talks. The early morning attack on the offices of President Hamid Karzai and the CIA's nearby Ariana Hotel headquarters came exactly a week after the Afghan leader announced the full transition from Nato to local security, and the Taliban opened a political office in Doha declaring its willingness to negotiate an end to the war....
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