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Special Forces kill, detain 18 Taliban militants in Kabul and 4 other provinces
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... killed 13 Talibs and arrested 5 others during the operations in Kabul and four other provinces in the past 24 hours. The military officials said Wednesday the Special Forces killed 5 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons in Alisheng district of Laghman ...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin. He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men... The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 2 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons in a similar raid in Pul-e Alam district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... The Special Forces arrested 2 Talibs during a raid in Matun district of Khost, the officials said, adding that the Special Forces arrested another Taliban  ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...hard boy during a raid in Kabul. The officials also added that the Special Forces killed 6 Talibs, arrested 2 others and destroyed a cache of weapons during a raid in Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand. The Taliban group has not commented regarding the operations so far. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-11-28 |
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