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| 22 Police, 76 Taliban Killed in Afghan Battle |
| 2013-08-03 |
| [AnNahar] More than 20 Afghan coppers and dozens of Taliban bully boyz were killed Friday when hundreds of fighters ambushed a police and military convoy in eastern Afghanistan, officials said. The five-hour battle in the Sherzad district of 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 occurred after the convoy was attacked as it returned from an operation to rescue a politician being threatened by the Taliban. "It was an intense battle and bully boyz used heavy and light weapons to attack the convoy of our security forces in Sherzad district," Nangarhar deputy police chief Masoom Khan Hashemi told Agence La Belle France Presse. "We lost 22 of our brave coppers, but the gunnies have been taught a lesson of our strength, their attack was completely repelled and 60 of their fighters were killed," Hashemi said, adding a further 16 bully boyz were killed during the rescue of the politician. The account was confirmed by provincial front man Ahmadzia Abdulzai. "The military and police launched a successful operation in the district killing 16 Taliban. On their way back they were ambushed in which 60 Taliban were killed. Unfortunately 22 coppers were also martyred in the fighting," he said. The Taliban, who have been waging a bloody decade-long insurgency against the Western-backed Kabul government, claimed only five of their fighters and 84 government soldiers were killed in the battle. With the U.S.-led coalition due to withdraw its 100,000 combat troops by the end of 2014, the Afghan police and army are increasingly taking responsibility for tackling the insurgency that erupted after the Taliban were ousted in 2001. The Taliban bully boyz in the meantime have stepped up their attacks in areas where foreign troops have withdrawn or are in the process of withdrawing. Afghanistan's 350,000-strong security forces are suffering a steep rise in casualties as the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and organization.... combat mission winds down and Afghan authorities try to impose stability ahead of the presidential election due in April. The vote, which will chose a successor to long-time leader President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... , is seen as a key test of whether the U.S.-led international military intervention in Afghanistan has been a success. The long war has become increasingly unpopular in the U.S. and other coalition countries such as Britannia and Germany, with national leaders now hoping their troops can withdraw rapidly after a credible Afghan government takes power. "If the election goes well and produces a result that is widely accepted in the country, most other of Afghanistan's challenges are going to be satisfactorily met," U.S. special envoy James Dobbins said in Kabul on Friday. "The election is the most important item on Afghanistan's agenda and it's the most important item on the U.S.'s agenda even though we are just observers." Karzai, who came to power soon after the Taliban were ousted, has repeatedly said that he will leave office in line with the constitution and has vowed to work towards a fair election of a new president. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Good ratio, all are dead preferably. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2013-08-03 08:56 |