By AMIR SHAH and DEB RIECHMANN
Associated Press Writers
KABUL – Insurgents struck Friday at hotels in the heart of Kabul with suicide attackers and a car bomb, killing at least 16 people – half of them foreigners – in an assault that showed the militants remain a potent force despite setbacks on the battlefield and the arrest of more than a dozen key leaders.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks, which President Hamid Karzai said targeted Indians working in Kabul.
At least six of the dead were Indian citizens, including some government officials, Indian authorities said. The Taliban have long opposed India’s involvement in Afghanistan and its ties to an Afghan group that helped the U.S. oust the Islamist regime in late 2001.