U.S. troops in armored vehicles deployed outside another U.N. compound in Kabul that houses the headquarters of several U.N. organizations, a senior U.N. official said.

WSJ: Taliban Assault Shakes Kabul

At a U.N. compound next door to the scene of the attack, anxious U.N. employees hunkered down indoors after shrapnel from the initial blast sprinkled the gardens.

WSJ: Taliban Assault Shakes Kabul

Another rocket-propelled grenade whistled past the hotel and other rockets exploded near the U.N. compound, the Iraqi Interior Ministry and an abandoned police station.

CNN: Military investigates hostile fire in 'green zone'

Instead, their hapless mission against a compound suspected of housing the fugitive Somali warlord, Mohammed Aideed, netted nothing more than eight U.N. employees who had been sleeping there.

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