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| Afghanistan: 40 Taliban killed in Helmand, claims police chief |
| 2009-08-22 |
| [ADN Kronos] Up to 40 Taliban fighters, including a commander, were killed during operations in various areas of volatile southern Helmand province during Afghanistan's presidential and provincial elections, a police chief said on Friday, quoted by Afghan news agency Pajhwok. Asadullah Sherzad told Pajhwok seven insurgents were killed on Thursday while planting bombs on a road in Musa Qala district, a Taliban stronghold. Eight militants were killed in Sangin district and a dozen others in an air strike carried out by the NATO-led Internal Security Assistance Forces in the Tarkha Nawar area. Mullah Sattar, a rebel commander, was among eight fighters killed in Khan Nashin district, added Sherzad, who claimed five others were killed in Chanjeer area of Nad Ali district. A police officer and four civilians were injured in the clashes. Col. Sherzad said five civilians were killed on Thursday when a landmine exploded in Nad Ali district. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi claimed they blew up several tanks belonging to foreign forces and killed dozens of Afghan and international soldiers in Greshk, Nawa, Sangin and Musa Qala districts. Eleven election workers were killed in armed attacks across Afghanistan during polling, the Independent Election Commission said on Friday in a statement received by Pajhwok. Eight Afghan soldiers were killed and 25 others wounded in 135 rebel attacks and bomb explosions throughout the country, Afghan defence minister Abdul Rahim Wardak told journalists. Nine police officers and nine civilians were also killed and more than a dozen wounded in the latest attacks, according to the interior ministry. Afghan intelligence foiled 29 attacks planned by the insurgents to disrupt the elections, Amrullah Saleh, chief of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 *giggle* |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-08-22 13:41 |
| #3 @#$%^&*!!!!! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-08-22 07:50 |
| #2 grom, they're ALL little girls or kittens - er, pussi.... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-08-22 07:46 |
| #1 How many little girls & their kittens? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-08-22 07:31 |