Taliban truck bomb blasts hotel for foreigners in Kabul

A Taliban truck bomb blasted a hotel for foreigners in Kabul Monday, triggering a seven-hour gun and grenade assault that highlighted growing insecurity in a city still reeling from its deadliest attack for 15 years. The guests and staff of the Northgate hotel escaped unharmed, but one policeman was killed after the suicide truck bomber paved the way for two other armed insurgents to enter the heavily guarded facility near Kabul airport. "A truck bomb packed with explosives struck the outer (perimeter) wall of the hotel," said Kabul police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi.