KABUL - About six or seven rocket-propelled grenades landed inside the perimeter of theUnited States embassy in Kabul in the early hours of a marathon attack by Taliban insurgents,the US ambassador to Afghanistan said on Wednesday.
Ambassador Ryan Crocker said in an interview transcriptprovided to journalists in the Afghan capital that therockets were fired from far enough away that he did notconsider them a serious attack on the embassy."We're still trying to count them up but I'd say roughly six, seven. But again, they were firingfrom at least 800 metres away and with an RPG that's harassment. That's not an attack," hesaid.
He also said he believed the Haqqani network, a Taliban-linked insurgent group, were behindthe attack.
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