Taliban raid on Afghanistan police complex "It's very clear that more and more the Afghan security sources are getting into the lead, the more they are targeted by the insurgents," said Brigadier General Gunter Katz, spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. He added that the Taliban were losing the fight and were now launching attacks that would create maximum media coverage. Police said five attackers launched the attack at about 5.30am. One detonated a car bomb and a second died when his suicide vest exploded at the gates, allowing three more fighters to storm the building in the west of Kabul. They threw fired rocket-propelled grenades and light machine guns from the windows, apparently targeting other police facilities nearby. The district echoed to the sound of explosions for more than eight hours until the building fell silent and police announced the operation over and the attackers dead. The Taliban claimed responsibility before the attack had finished. "Our goal was the Afghan Border Police headquarters and their training academy where the foreign advisers and their trainers are, so our fighters started shooting at them just after the first blast," said Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman, by telephone. Mohammad Ayoub Salangi Kabul Police chief, said 4 traffic policemen and 8 civilians were also wounded during the assault but insisted that local security forces were not out of their depth There are important documents at the traffic office, that is why we were careful during the operation that the documents does not catch fire. That's why it took time," he said.