U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers attacked a convoy of three vehicles believed to be trying to ferry al-Qaida fighters out of the Shah-e-Kot Valley and killed 16 of them. The attack on Sunday wounded one enemy fighter, in addition to those killed, and another was detained. There were no American casualties. A fourth vehicle traveling some distance behind the three-vehicle convoy was stopped by U.S. forces. Those in the vehicle were determined to be noncombatants – including women and children – and permitted to go free. In a separate incident, U.S. forces captured 31 suspected al-Qaida or Taliban fighters in a compound west of Kandahar.
Anybody taking bets that AIP says they were unarmed civilians on their way to a wedding in Milwaukee? |