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Taliban militant numbers reduced by allied troops
The London News.Net
Wednesday 27th August, 2008
Nearly 80 suspected Taliban militants were killed in coalition airstrikes and clashes with Afghan forces, while four Afghan policemen were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern region on Wednesday.
More than 40 suspected Taliban militants were killed in Sarobi district of southeastern province of Paktika after the militants ambushed a police patrol in the area.
Five policemen were wounded and the ground forces called coalition airstrikes on the Taliban near the border with Pakistan.
Another group of Taliban fighters attacked a police patrol in Kheshawand district of the same Paktika province Wednesday morning, wounding a policeman.
Police forces fought back and killed eight suspected militants.
In a separate incident, Taliban militants attacked a police post in Nad Ali district in southern Helmand province but suffered 18 fatalities.
A suicide bomber attacked near a British military base in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province, killing himself and wounding three civilians.
British troops were not in the area when the explosion occurred.
Separately, US-led coalition forces claimed Wednesday to have killed more than a dozen Taliban insurgents in volatile southern Afghanistan, while another four were detained by the combined forces elsewhere.
The troops engaged the militants with small arms, machine guns, and close air support, killing more than a dozen militants.
No Afghan or coalition soldiers were hurt in the incident.
In another incident, four police personnel were also killed when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in Gilan district of southern Ghazni province.
Afghan and US officials have accused the Taliban of having bases inside Pakistan, from where they cross the border and stage attacks on Afghan and international forces.
More than 3,500 people - mostly insurgents - have been killed in violence in Afghanistan so far this year, according to figures provided by Afghan and foreign military sources.
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Anonymous
08-27-08, 09:15 PM |
Taliban militant numbers reduced by allied troops
Russia will resupply the Taliban!!
Many Russian Army Generals sell arms,
munitions and supplies for cash !!
to the Talibam !! Romor has it that
Russia is providing arms to china’s
Islamists !!
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Anonymous
08-27-08, 10:18 PM |
Taliban will lose because they are against God's law
Taliban are dying, faster and faster. They spit on God and God will crush them.
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Father of a U.S. soldier
08-28-08, 09:24 AM |
Another Example Of Diametrically Opposed Forces
On one side, US and some other Nato forces operating under a system of checks and balances resting on a foundational fact that the men and women of the U.S. military are good and decent volunteers who seek to protect their nations interest, and the rights of the innocent and oppressed. Much (not all) of what they do is done in “daylight” under the watchful eye of a free press as well as the eye of the press that is antagonistic towards their cause. Talk of Taliban and the deaths of innocent civilians is of little or no consequence. Are Civilians of Afghanistan flocking to U.S. bases for medical and humanitarian aid OR to the Taliban? One side of this engagement seeks to protect or guard the innocent. The other (Taliban) doesn’t seek anything but its own blood lust. If you want to talk about women-children and elderly casualties there will always be some amongst the casualties of war, but they (women and children) are not targeted by anyone except the Taliban!
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Anonymous
08-28-08, 10:56 AM |
This war is against Muslims pure and simple. They are demonized in one name or another and the people know it. They will finally unite and the enemies of Islam will not have the last word.Killing 60 Muslim children by bombing them at night in Shendand has aroused the Afghan people like never before.
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Anonymous
08-28-08, 03:57 AM |
80 “suspected” Taliban were killed? Was that including women-children and the elderly? And what the heck difference will 80 less Taliban make, compared to the number of them waiting to cross the border from Pakistan?
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;) Midnight
08-28-08, 09:36 AM |
Sharif for President
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;) Midnight
08-28-08, 09:37 AM |
Did I intercept Mr. 13% is now at Mr 10% that’s really bad. I’d rather be called anything than Mr.10%
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