smoke descriptions of the Intercontinental Hotel after the attack on Tuesday night, the forces of NATO in Afghanistan say that they have killed a senior militant they suspected of involvement in the attack of the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul.Jan Ismail died in an airstrike in the province Eastern Paktia Wednesday, said of the alliance.
Correspondents of the BBC say that he is Commander leading the Haqqani network, which is linked to the Taliban and al-Qaida.
NATO intelligence and Afghans believe Haqqani members helped to mount the attack on the hotel, which killed at least 20.
No there is currently no independent confirmation of the death of Jan Ismail.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on the hotel, but NATO says that it was carried out jointly with the Haqqani network. The Group has bases in Pakistan but focuses its attacks on the border, in Afghanistan.
He was charged to carry out a number of canon of prestige and the bombings in Afghanistan in recent years.
A statement by the force of ISAF, said that Jan was suspected of supporting "material" the attackers of the Kabul Hotel.
He said he had been killed in what he called a "precision airstrike" keep district.
"" Ismail Jan was Deputy to the higher Commander Haqqani in the Afghanistan, Haji Mali Khan. "."Jan and several Haqqani fighters had been killed in strike, said the statement.She added that he had hunted after information from Afghan officials, citizens, and "vote" insurgents.
Ismail Jan operated in and around the neck of Khost-Gardez, a rugged and wooded near the border region between Pakistan and was blamed for having carried out attacks against Afghan and NATO targets.
"Mistakes".In Kabul, it appeared that at least two of the attackers intercontinental wore the uniform of the police, raising questions about the issue of whether the activists had received inside help.
In addition, the researchers want to know how the attackers managed to pass in the huge quantities of weapons and ammunition.Previous attacks have led the intelligence officials to conclude that the Haqqani network has entered Afghan security at the highest level.
The BBC Sarwary Bilal in Kabul, said police officers are now interviewed on what many regard as glaring security holes in one of the apparently more secure locations in the capital.
Afghan forces are also accused of being slow to arrive on the scene once the attack Tuesday night had begun.
NATO air support was called before finally calm.
Correspondents say the Intercontinental, which is not part of the chain of hotel international of the same name, is one of the most heavily guarded Kabul hotels.
But a Security Ministry official told the BBC that activists could have exploited a flaw in security due to renovations.
Kabul - the theatre of many attacks of recent years - has been relatively stable so far this year, although the violence has increased across the country since the murder of bin Laden in Pakistan on 2 May and the beginning of the Taliban in the "Spring" offensive
In January 2008, militants have stormed most popular hotel in the capital, la Serena and killed eight people, including an American, a Norwegian and a woman in the Philippines.
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