“The Afghan government on Wednesday [June 29, 2011] blamed an al Qaeda-linked militant group based in Pakistan for the siege on a Kabul hotel that left 12 victims and all nine attackers dead. The attackers, all of whom were prepared to carry out suicide bombings, were with the Haqqani network, a group of terrorists loyal to the warlord Siraq Haqqani, a spokesman for the Afghanistan Interior Ministry said. …Falak Merzahi, a spokesman for the Afghanistan Interior Ministry, said the attackers came into Afghanistan from Pakistan. …Six of the attackers ended up detonating their explosives; three were shot and killed on the roof of the hotel, Afghan officials said. …A Taliban spokesman claimed the Taliban was behind the attack.”
– Reza Sayah, Matiullah Mati, Barbara Starr, Larry Shaughnessy, Elise Labott, Jerome Starkey, Fazel Reshad, and Jonathan Boone, “Afghanistan Blames Militant Network for Hotel Siege,” CNN, June 29, 2011