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| Taliban Cross Border, Get Wacked |
| 2003-07-21 |
| Follows up yesterday's story... US-led troops in Afghanistan have killed up to 24 Afghan fighters who attacked a coalition convoy in southern Afghanistan overnight, the US military says. The exchange happened near the town of Spin Boldak on the Pakistani border. A statement said coalition forces engaged the attackers, killing approximately five of them. It said up to 19 more fighters were killed as AH-64 Apache helicopters were called in as air support to raid the surrounding hills. No coalition casualties were reported. Earlier, a local Afghan commissioner told the BBC that a group of about 100 fighters suspected to be loyal to Afghanistan’s former rulers, the Taleban, crossed the border from Pakistan on Saturday night. The commissioner, Fazluddin Agha, said five were captured. If confirmed, the fighting would be the bloodiest in Afghanistan since June, when government forces reported killing 40 suspected Taleban fighters in the Spin Boldak area. The attack happened near a US base in the town, the US statement from Bagram Air Base said. "The coalition forces drove through the kill zone, requested close air support and engaged the enemy forces, killing approximately five enemy and pursuing the remaining forces into the surrounding hills," it said. "AH-64 Apaches provided the air support, making several passes on the hill, killing approximately 17-19 more enemy," the statement added. Good work, guys. Keep it up. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #6 Oh my god!! Heaven forbid, we actually killed one of those little darlings of the Taliban. I wonder if we should notify Amnesty International so they can write another meaningless and thoroughly slanted piece of yellow journalism about American Imperialism??? |
| Posted by: SOG475 2003-7-21 8:03:20 PM |
| #5 Nice cache find as well. It gives me great satisfaction to hear that 24 ummmm...not-afghans (?) got their 72 raisins. I know we don't wanna do the body-count thing in Iraq, but it would be good to hear how many ummmm... not-iraqis are getting their raisins every time we also hear about one of our guys getting a shot to the neck |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-7-21 11:31:21 AM |
| #4 How could you think such a thing? |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-7-21 11:24:15 AM |
| #3 As close to the border as this is, would it surprize anyone if some of the 100 Taliban loyalists were actually Paks or other non-Afghans. |
| Posted by: mhw 2003-7-21 11:17:50 AM |
| #2 also today, Dostum of all people presents a plan for disarming militias. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-7-21 11:13:50 AM |
| #1 UPDATE: Attackers fired on U.S. and Afghan troops surveying the scene of a weekend battle in southern Afghanistan in which some two dozen insurgents were killed, the U.S. military said Monday. No casualties were reported in the incident Sunday in Spinboldak, a town on the Pakistan border in Kandahar province, said U.S. Col. Rodney Davis, a spokesman for coalition forces. "The special operations forces pursued the enemy, who broke contact," Davis said. "Run away!" The joint patrol was assessing the scene of a battle on Saturday in Spinboldak in which U.S. forces, backed by helicopter gunships, killed up to 24 suspected Taliban insurgents after their convoy came under attack. The patrol found discarded clothing, shoes, equipment and used ammunition. Afghan forces searching a nearby village found a weapons cache in several buildings that included mines, machine gun ammunition, 82 mm mortar rounds and 300 yards of detonation cord, Davis said. Five people were detained by the Afghans and handed over to coalition forces, he said, giving no other details. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-7-21 10:42:18 AM |