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Afghan Mujahideen continue resistance in battle at Spin Boldak
Occupying US forces showered about a dozen and a half oxygen sucking semi-nuclear bombs known as daisy cutters on the Spin Boldak area near Chaman suffocating to death several innocent civilians in the surrounding villages, reports reaching Pakistan said. Oh, dear! How sad! And they're "semi-nuclear," too! That makes it even worse! The bombing started when some Afghan freedom fighters shot down a US helicopter in nearby hills killing about 10 US soldiers. In a pitched battle after the incident a few more American soldiers and their local supporters were reportedly killed. US forces called in air support which dropped daisy-cutters in the area. US sources said that the Afghan freedom fighters belonged to Taliban and Gulbadin Hekmatyar's Hezb-e-Islami Afghanistan. A Taliban spokesman who requested not to be named told the sources 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. And they were just flesh wounds... Khalid Pashtoon, a spokesman of the Kandahar governor, said that 18 Taliban and three Afghan troops were killed. He also claimed that the deputy of Taliban commander Hafiz Abdul Raheem, who is heading Taliban in the fighting, was also among the martyrs. Thought that was Raheem's brother? Could be the same guy, since it's a family business type thing. Yesterday he was captured, today he's dead, cut down in his prime... Could the two be connected? Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-01-31 |
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