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12 Insurgents Join Reconciliation in Herat
[Tolo News] Twelve Afghan krazed killers, including a commander and a former commander, have surrendered their weapons to Afghanistan's National Security Directorate in Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province, the provincial governor's front man Mohiuddin Noori said Thursday.
Why are they reconciliating when fighting season has officially been declared open? It's not like they now need a warm bed for the winter...
The krazed killers, who joined the reconciliation programme, had been engaged in anti-government activities in the Kishk Rabat Sangi district of the western province, he added.

The group's commander Mullah Jandad asked the government to protect them from any possible krazed killer attacks against them, Noori said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase...
20 armed Taliban beturbanned goons have been killed in festivities with Afghan cops in the Khaki Safed District of western Farah province.

Head of Farah's security forces Mohammad Ghous Malyar said Thursday a special military operation had been ongoing for three days and that there were still as many as 70 armed Taliban fighting the Afghan cops.
Golly -- it sounds as exciting as Mexico!
Malyar said the beturbanned goons have been "surrounded".

During the operation, the deputy of Second Brigade Army was maimed as well as three Afghan National Army soldiers and two Afghan local police, he added.
Posted by: Fred 2012-05-04
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