Sunday's attack 'start of spring offensive': Taliban

Taliban said a wave of gun and suicide attacks in Afghanistan's capital and three eastern towns were coordinated and marked the start of the rebels' "spring offensive."

Taliban said a wave of gun and suicide attacks in Afghanistan's capital and three eastern towns were coordinated and marked the start of the rebels' "spring offensive."

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Zabihullah Mujahed, the Taliban spokesman, told AFP by phone from an unknown location, that the attacks were also a message to the Kabul government and its Western military backers "who believed we will not launch a spring offensive."

"The Kabul administration and the invading forces had said some time ago that the Taliban will not be able to launch a spring offensive. Today's attacks were the start of our spring offensive," he told AFP.