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| Bomb blast kills 3 policemen in Afghanistan | |
| 2011-04-22 | |
| [Arab News] Fighting has escalated in eastern Afghanistan as Afghan and coalition forces step up their attacks on Islamic fascisti along the Pakistain border and faceless myrmidons retaliate with attacks on pro-government forces, including a kaboom Thursday that killed three Afghan coppers. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a front man for the governor of Nangarhar province, said the three coppers were killed by a bomb that was placed on a bus. The bus was transporting Afghan coppers and trainees to a training academy in the quiet provincial capital of Jalalabad. Six others on the bus were maimed in the kaboom, Abdulzai said. Afghanistan's spring fighting season is expected to be in full force by the end of this month. Before winter set in, tens of thousands of US and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... reinforcements routed the Taliban from their strongholds, captured leading figures and destroyed weapons caches. The bully boys, known for their resiliency, responded with high-profile attacks across the nation. What's unknown is how strong the Taliban will prove to be as the fighting gears up in what could be a defining year in the nearly decade-old war. "In the last several weeks, the activity is starting to go up more, so they (insurgents) are starting to come back" from Pakistain, said Maj. Gen. John Campbell, commander of coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan. Campbell spoke to news hounds Wednesday night at Bagram Air Field. "We've hammered the Haqqani network and the bad boys," he said, referring to the bad boy network, which is affiliated with Al-Qaeda and often blamed for attacks in the Kabul. "We killed a lot of low level and mid-level leadership, especially the Haqqani network, because we have really been going after that. And what we have started to see is that leadership is much younger and less experienced."
At least 21 US troops have been killed in Afghanistan so far this year, at least 10 in eastern Afghanistan. In other incidents in the east, two Afghan men were killed and four other people -- three women and a child -- were maimed Thursday when their van struck a roadside mine in Dih Yak district of Ghazni province, said Sher Khan Yousefzai, the top local official in neighboring Andar district. A French soldier was killed and nine others were maimed when their armored vehicle struck a road side bomb Wednesday in Kapisa province, the French Defense Ministry said. Also, 17 bad boys, including imported muscle, were killed Tuesday in Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Binny's house in Chitral... by Afghan and coalition forces searching for a senior leader of the Al-Qaeda network, NATO said late Wednesday. According to the coalition, the Al-Qaeda leader commanded Islamic fascisti and directed the purchase of equipment used to attack pro-government forces in the border region. NATO also said that a Haqqani operator was captured Wednesday in Tere Zayi district of Khost province ... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name... , which borders Pakistain and that several suspected Islamic fascisti were jugged in the quiet provincial capital of Khost. According to NATO, the individuals have been conducting military training and developing a compound linked to Al-Qaeda leaders based in Pakistain. | |
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