Kabul, July 2 (ANI): Afghan officials have admitted that they could not have retaken the Intercontinental Hotel from Taliban militants without the help of NATO Special Forces.
The revelations come at a time when Afghan forces are expected to take over security operations from the US in seven cities of Afghanistan later this month.
NATO officials however, claimed that its forces were barely needed and that Afghan forces secured the hotel themselves, ABC News reports.
A senior Afghan police official also admitted that one of his men accidentally shot and wounded a New Zealand special forces soldier who was in the hotel embedded with the Afghan police.
An intelligence official also acknowledged that initially, none of the Afghan police who guard the hotel responded to the attackers in any way.
Officials also said Afghan police were finding it impossible to get anywhere close to the roof before the NATO helicopter arrived.
Afghan authorities are clearly upset that the attackers managed to breach one of the most secure buildings in the city. Police said today that the head of the department that provides security to VIPs and hotels such as the Intercontinental is under investigation, the report said. (ANI)
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