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Talibunnies 'Spring Offensive' Underway?
KABUL (AFP) US-led troops and Afghan security forces on Sunday killed a "significant" number of militants, the coalition said, a day after 15 Taliban were killed in attacks in the south. The coalition did not give an exact toll but a local MP said the battle in eastern Nuristan province, in which warplanes were also deployed, left 20 people dead including some civilians."The combined force repelled the attack with accurate small-arms fire and crew-served weapons. During the long battle, the insurgents reinforced their positions in several compounds with large groups of fighters," a statement by the US-led coalition said. We were running low on targets so they graciously re-stocked. It added that troops "inflicted significant insurgent losses" and that many rebels had been detained. The statement said the fighters were members of Hizb-e-Islami, an outlawed militant group loyal to the former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is said to have joined the Taliban.
Don't these 'leaders' ever go down fighting? Posted by: Glenmore 2008-04-06 |
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