KABUL — Five insurgents planning a suicide attack in Kabul have been
killed in a pre-dawn gunbattle in the capital, an Afghan security
official said Thursday.At least two others were still holed up in
a house in the east of the city and the fighting was continuing,
National Directorate of Security spokesman Lutfullah Mahsal told AFP.A
spokesman for NATO's military in Afghanistan confirmed that "an
incident of that nature is currently happening in Kabul", without
providing further details."A group of insurgents armed with
suicide vests, rockets and machineguns planned to seize a tall building
in Kabul's (central) Shar-i-Naw area," Mahsal said.Acting on
intelligence, security forces raided a house in the eastern
Pul-e-Charkhi neighbourhood and a gunfight erupted, he said."There
has been an ongoing gunfight since the first hours of this morning. So
far, five of the men are dead and two or possibly more are still
fighting."Mahsal said a mini-van full of explosives had also been found in the house.

On
April 15, in the biggest coordinated attack on the capital in 10 years
of war, three squads of Taliban suicide attackers took up positions in
high buildings under construction and fired on government offices,
embassies and military bases.Seventeen hours of fighting left 51 dead, including 36 attackers