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And still more, from the other side...
A Taliban spokesman who requested not to be named told The News [Pakistan] that one US helicopter was shot down, while seven US soldiers and 15 Afghan troops were killed in the fighting. He claimed that only five Taliban were injured. The Taliban spokesman rejected the claim by Khalid Pashtun, the spokesman of spokesman for the governor of Kandahar, who also said Hekmatyar's men were fighting alongside Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, although most of those captured so far were "apparently Taliban". Other officials said a former Taliban police chief of Kandahar Hafiz Abdul Majeed was believed to be leading the rebels, along with another Taliban commander Hafiz Abdur Raheem. Sounds like the Talibs and the Hezbis are thick as thieves, or maybe as murderers. They "shoot down" three or four helis a week, if you're a believer in Azzam or Taliban-on-Line. There's a problem with body counts, too. Presumably the U.S. and/or the gummint can lay out somewhere between 18 and 22 corpses, but the Talibs can't see more than five of them... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-01-29 |
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