Weapons Test 2.0 by Mark Thompson | @MarkThompson_DC | September 14 Manolo Blahnik sandals, 2011 | + Tweet A NATO helicopter flies over the building from which Taliban fighters attacked the most heavily protected area of Kabul on September 14, 2011. A coordinated Taliban assault on the Afghan capital was repelled on September 14 after raging for 19 hours under a barrage of rockets, grenades, and suicide attacks, leaving 14 dead and six foreign troops wounded. Afghan and foreign forces fought against insurgents who targeted the U.S. Embassy and NATO headquarters. Buy Christian Louboutin, spreading fear and confusion, raising new questions about the government's ability to secure the country even after a ten-year war. The standoff ended when troops finally killed the last two insurgents who had held out overnight in a high-rise construction site just a few hundred meters from the well-guarded U.S. embassy. AFP photo/Shah Marai (photo credit should read Shah Marai/AFP/Getty Images). Long-time DIA intelligence analyst John McCreary comments on what happened Tuesday in Kabul and doesn't like what he sees: Three major Taliban attacks occurred in Kabul this summer... One of these attacks could be a stroke of fortune, perhaps lucky. A second might have been a coincidence, but three is a strategic trend. Violent instability is always centrifugal - it seeks the center of power. Images of coalition and Afghan forces struggling to defend themselves in Kabul mean the insurgency has reached the center of power. The low count of human losses means only that the Taliban can't yet take power in Kabul. But if the coalition were winning, these attacks should never have happened at all. Of all places, Kabul must be kept secure if the lessons of Tet 1968 were ever learned. Read more on his NightWatch blog. The Death of the Fairness Doctrine Steps Targets Recall Pre-Occupation Probe Apple iPhone Tops Sales by 58% as the Vatican Goes High Tech Pope Benedict XVI E...