Security cameras show Taliban gunmen smuggling small pistols into a Kabul hotel late on Thursday.<br/> <br />This footage was captured just hours before an assault that killed nine people.<br/> <br />Here, the four men walk through the initial security checkpoint. A guard searches them.<br/> <br />Then a metal detector - with another search.<br/> <br />They are then seen walking through the Serena hotel's lobby toward the restaurant.<br/> <br />The gunmen waited for the restaurant to fill up before emerging to shoot guests point-blank.<br/> <br />One of the gunmen takes cover at a doorway before taking a shot at a figure in the distance, later identified as a member of the Afghan security forces.
