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U.S. airstrike targets Taliban, allegedly kills Afghan cops
[CBSNEWS] An Afghan official says at least eight Afghan coppers have been killed in two U.S. Arclight airstrikes in southern Uruzgan province in what was apparently a friendly-fire incident.

Rahimullah Khan, a provincial operational commander, says the first Arclight airstrike killed one policeman at a checkpoint outside the picturesque provincial capital of Tirin Kot, while the second, which struck the same area, killed seven others.

Khan says the Arclight airstrikes took place on Sunday afternoon around Tirin Kot. The Taliban have been advancing on the city in recent weeks.

A U.S. military front man confirmed that U.S. forces carried out an Arclight airstrike, saying they sought to assist Afghan troops who were fired on by the Taliban.

Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone,
...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ...
 says he doesn’t "have any further information" on who the casualties may have been.

Tirin Kot is the third Afghan picturesque provincial capital that has come under Taliban threat recently, along with the city of Kunduz in the north and Lashkar Gah in southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
 province.

U.S. Arclight airstrikes around the city were reported quickly after Talibs laid siege to Tirin Kot at the beginning of September.

At a September briefing attended by CBS News, an American commander with the U.S.-led Resolute Force mission in Afghanistan said the Taliban would not be permitted to completely overtake any picturesque provincial capitals in the country.
Posted by: Fred 2016-09-20
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