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âTaleban fighters killed in raidâ
US and Afghan government forces are said to have killed at least seven Taleban fighters in a raid in central Afghanistan. A police spokesman said three Afghan soldiers also died and five were injured in the clashes. The fighting lasted for two days in the mountainous Chaar Cheno region of the central province of Uruzgan, once a Taleban stronghold. The Afghan police spokesman, Haji Mohammed Akhtar, had said on Tuesday that the Afghan unit had been facing tough resistance by about 100 members of the Taleban. It is not clear what happened to the remaining fighters although one report quoted an unnamed official as saying they had escaped. Got them on the run, keep the pressure on. "The Taleban forces overnight escaped because they could not resist the fighting and now American soldiers are conducting house-to-house searches to find out if any Taleban members are hidden among ordinary people," the official was quoted. About 500 Afghan soldiers armed with heavy machine-guns, assault rifles and rocket launchers took part in the raid. Nice going. Posted by: Steve 2003-10-15 |
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