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| U.S. hunts al-Qaida in Afghanistan |
| 2007-08-15 |
| Hundreds of U.S.-led troops have launched an offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban militants in an area of eastern Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden once hid, officials said Wednesday. A bomb attack near the capital, meanwhile, killed three German police officers assigned to protect their country's embassy, and a British national was shot and killed in Kabul. The offensive involving ground troops and airstrikes in Tora Bora region of eastern Nangarhar province is targeting "hundreds of foreign fighters" who are using dug-in fighting positions, said coalition spokeswoman Capt. Vanessa Bowman. The remote mountainous area bordering Pakistan was heavily bombarded in late 2001 by U.S. troops hunting bin Laden and his associates following the Sept. 11 attacks. "This region has provided an ideal environment to conceal enemy support bases and training sites, as well as plan and launch attacks aimed at terrorizing innocent civilians, both inside and outside the region," Bowman said in a statement released later Wednesday by the Pentagon. A U.S. official in Washington with knowledge of the operation said it was "intelligence driven" and had been "piggy-backed" on top of a previously planned action against extremists. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, said it was not clear exactly who was being targeted, but that those believed to be in the area included Taliban officials who could be accompanied by some mid-level members of al-Qaida's leadership, but not the top echelon. There were no immediate reports of casualties among militants or U.S. and Afghan troops. ... Separately, U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops clashed with militants in central Logar province on Tuesday, killing nine suspected militants, the Interior Ministry said. No police or coalition troops were wounded in the clash, it said. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #3 Right, Frank G. So, when does the bombing of Pakistan begin, guyz? |
| Posted by: B. Hussein Obama 2007-08-15 23:04 |
| #2 U.S. hunts al-Qaida in Afghanistan in between indiscriminately air-raiding villages and killing civilians, right, Obama? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-08-15 22:28 |
| #1 Q: When the Taliban emptied out there bases in Pakistan, where did they go? A: |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-08-15 21:39 |