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Taliban attack 2 police checkpoints
Suspected Taliban militants attacked two police checkpoints along a highway in southern Afghanistan, sparking fighting that left 14 insurgents dead, police said yesterday. About 30 Taliban attacked the police posts late Saturday in Zabul province's Qalat district, 60 miles northeast of Kandahar, Zabul police chief Ghulam Nabi Malakhail said. The Taliban retrieved the bodies of their slain comrades after fighting that lasted about 30 minutes, Malakhail said. He said there were no casualties among the police. But a purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, claimed responsibility for the attack and said at least seven police were killed. He said militants burned one of the police posts. It wasn't immediately possible to verify his claim, nor the death toll provided by police. The police were deployed at the posts to guard the main highway linking the capital of Kabul with Kandahar, a former Taliban stronghold. Posted by: Phens Spaimp8136 2006-04-17 |
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