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Recording reveals Afghan attack plot
Intercepted calls show Taliban and Pakistan-based group planning June attack on Kabul hotel.
Last Modified: 30 Aug 2011 13:35

Afghan security officials have released a recording of intercepted phone calls between a Pakistan-based group and Taliban fighters planning an attack on a Kabul hotel.

Twenty-one people died when eight suicide bombers stormed the hotel in a nighttime raid in late June.

Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith reports from Kabul.
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