ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan
2011-08-S-077 

KABUL, Afghanistan (Aug. 30, 2011) – A combined Afghan and coalition security force killed more than 10 insurgents and detained another nine during separate, overnight searches targeting a Haqqani network attack cell in eastern Afghanistan. 
The targets of the searches were several Haqqani facilitators responsible for planning an imminent attack on Kabul city under direction from Haqqani leaders based in Pakistan. Tips from local citizens indicated the insurgents’ locations and that they were organizing the attack to happen in the next few weeks.

A separate team, led by Afghan troops, searched for another facilitator at a compound in Andar district, Ghazni province. As the force initiated the search they were engaged by a group of armed insurgents who were barricaded in a nearby building. The force made several attempts to call upon the insurgents to leave the building, however the insurgents continued to fire. As a protection measure, the force called in air strikes to engage the armed men. Multiple insurgents were killed and several were detained as a result of the strike. Following the engagement, members of the security force met with local leaders, who indicated the building the insurgents had taken over was the village mosque.