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| Over 100 people killed as Taleban storm Afghan district |
| 2014-09-27 |
| [ARABNEWS] GHAZNI, Afghanistan: Hundreds of Taliban fighters have stormed a strategic district in an Afghan province not far from the capital, killing dozens of people in five days of fighting and the holy warriors could capture the area, officials said on Friday. The Ghazni provincial government has lost contact with police in the province's western district of Ajrestan, said Asadullah Safi, deputy police chief of the area. Ghazni, is southwest of the capital, Kabul, and a key link to the south and southeast, where the Taliban have been making advances in recent months. "If there is no urgent help from the central government, the district will collapse," Safi said. The battle for Ajrestan illustrates the grave challenges facing Afghanistan's new president and the security forces in holding territory as foreign combat troops prepare to leave at the end of the year. Control of Ajrestan, about 200 km (125 miles) from Kabul, would provide the Taliban with a launching point for attacks into adjacent Uruzgan and Daikundi provinces. Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... was going on in Ajrestan on Friday. Safi said a suicide boom-mobileer attacked a police checkpoint early in the day before provincial authorities completely lost contact with the district. The attack by an estimated 700 Taliban fighters began about five days ago and early reports were that more than 100 people had been killed, including 15 who had their heads chopped off by the bully boys, said provincial deputy governor Ahmadullah Ahmadi. Provincial authorities have appealed for help from the central government in Kabul, where President-elect Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. is in the process of taking over from 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... "We have asked repeatedly for helicopters to evacuate the maimed, but so far nothing has been done," Ahmadi said. However, some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go... a regional front man for the Afghan army, Nazif Sultani, said on Friday reinforcements had been sent to the district the previous day. He said he had no further information. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 It has been reported that some of the Ghazni locals have taken things into their own hands and begun decorating the trees-- with the Taliban captives handed over to them by the Afghan Army. |
| Posted by: Herb Bumble4862 2014-09-27 13:31 |