(CBS/AP) KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan authorities say a suicide bomber has blown himself up near NATO headquarters in Kabul, killing at least 6 people and injuring five, all of them civilians.
The Taliban is claiming responsibility for the attack. The terrorist network says it hit a CIA building. That building is on the same street, but two blocks away from the site of the explosion, CBS News personnel in Kabul point out.
Kabul deputy police chief Daud Amin says the U.S. Embassy, the Italian embassy and the presidential palace are also located near the site of Saturday's attack.
The attack came as Afghans marked the 11th anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the charismatic Northern Alliance commander who was killed in an al Qaeda suicide bombing two days before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The alliance joined with the United States to help rout the Taliban after America invaded Afghanistan a month later in the wake of the attacks.
The Taliban is claiming responsibility for the attack. The terrorist network says it hit a CIA building. That building is on the same street, but two blocks away from the site of the explosion, CBS News personnel in Kabul point out.
Kabul deputy police chief Daud Amin says the U.S. Embassy, the Italian embassy and the presidential palace are also located near the site of Saturday's attack.
The attack came as Afghans marked the 11th anniversary of the death of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the charismatic Northern Alliance commander who was killed in an al Qaeda suicide bombing two days before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The alliance joined with the United States to help rout the Taliban after America invaded Afghanistan a month later in the wake of the attacks.