| Submit your comments on this article |
| Afghanistan |
| Taliban Kill 15 Policemen in West Afghanistan Ambush |
| 2013-08-30 |
| [An Nahar] Taliban gunnies killed 15 police on the main highway in western Afghanistan, officials said Thursday, in the latest attack to highlight an escalation in rebel strikes as 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 cut of the American pants... -led troops withdraw. "Highway One" is a 2,200 kilometer (1,400 mile) circular road connecting the key cities of Kabul, Kandahar, Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... and Mazar-e-Sharif, but it has been a constant target for krazed killer attacks, kidnappings and looting. "A convoy of police who went to inspect a highway patrol unit were caught in a Taliban ambush on Wednesday," Farah province front man Abdul Rahman Zhuwandi told Agence La Belle France Presse. "There was fighting between them in which 15 national police were killed and 10 maimed, while several Taliban were also killed." The attack occurred shortly before dusk on Wednesday in Bakwa district of Farah province, which borders Iran. The ambush raised the corpse count in Taliban attacks on Wednesday to more than 30, including an American soldier, four coppers and three civilians who died when gunnies tried to storm a joint NATO-Afghan military base in the east. |
| Posted by:Fred |