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  • NATO spokesman Brig. Gen. Josef Blotz told journalists that intelligence sources showed the Taliban-allied Haqqani network planned and carried out the suicide attack on the nation's top medical facility.

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  • "The evidence viewed to date has revealed no evidence of children present at all on the night of the Feb. 17, and the adults were assessed to be men," Brig. Gen. Josef Blotz, a NATO spokesman, told reporters in Kabul. "They were armed and moving in tactical formations."

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