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| 10 Policemen Killed in Separate Taliban Attacks in Afghanistan |
| 2013-05-20 |
| [Naharnet] Taliban attacks killed at least ten Afghan police on Sunday, officials said, in the latest violence against the force which is due to take more security responsibility from NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... troops before their withdrawal next year. In one of the incidents, Taliban fighters attacked a security check post in the Muqur district of Ghazni province in southern Afghanistan, killing six police, according to district governor. "Six of our local police were martyred after hours of clash with Taliban when they attacked their post early today," he said. He added a second attack on a local police check post in Muqur maimed four police. The victims were members of the 18,000-strong Afghan Local Police, a village-level force formed in 2010 to provide security in areas where the better-trained national police and army are scarce. Also on Sunday, four Afghan border police were killed when their vehicle was blown up by a roadside kaboom in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province that borders neighboring Pakistain. "Today at around 10:00 am, a border police pickup truck hit a roadside kaboom while on patrol in Mohamand Dara district of Nangarhar province," Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, Nangarhar provincial governor front man told Agence La Belle France Presse. "As a result of the blast, four border police were killed." he said. A Taliban front man grabbed credit for both attacks saying at least two local officers were among the dead in Ghazni. Afghan cops are increasingly on the front line against the krazed killers, and suffering heavier casualties, as NATO combat troops prepare to withdraw by the end of next year. |
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