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Taliban kill 30 villagers in Afghanistan's Sari Pul province
[DAWN] An Afghan official says that at least 30 people, including women and kiddies, have been killed by Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
 fighters in northern Sari Pul province.

Zahir Wahdat, the provincial governor for Sari Pul, said on Sunday that the victims were mostly civilians and some local security forces. The shootings took place Saturday morning after the Taliban seized control of the strategic Mirzawalang area in Sayad district.

Wahdat says Afghan forces retreated from the area after they couldn't gain ground or air support from the central government.

Earlier reports indicated that over a dozen people had been killed by the Taliban.

Qari Yusouf Ahamdi, a Taliban front man, grabbed credit for the attack, but not the civilian deaths.

Besides, 10 Taliban fighters were also killed, according to Zabi Amani, a front man for the provincial governor.

Amani said that the fighters, who included foreign Lion of Islams, attacked a security outpost in the Mirza Olang area of Sayaad district overnight, torching 30 houses.
The story according to Ynet:
Zabihullah Amani, a front man for the provincial governor, said the fighters, who included foreign bully boys, attacked a security outpost in the Mirza Olang area of Sayaad district overnight, torching 30 houses.

He said fighting was still going on but as many as 50 people, including children, women and elderly men, most of them members of the largely Shi'ite Hazara community, may have been killed, according to local village elders.

Seven members of the Afghan cops were also killed as well as a number of bully boys.

Many details of the attack, including the identity of the bully boys, were not immediately clear. Amani said they were a mixed group of Taliban and Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 fighters but the Taliban itself denied any involvement, dismissing the claim as propaganda.
Posted by: Fred 2017-08-07
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