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| Afghanistan |
| 27 Taliban, Hezb-i-Islami Members in Custody |
| 2002-12-09 |
| U.S. special forces and Afghan troops hunting al Qaeda and Taliban remnants have detained at least 27 suspects in southern Afghanistan and seized a large quantity of weapons. U.S. and Afghan troops are carrying out a joint operation in the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar and nearby districts to hunt down pockets of resistance from hard-line Islamic groups blamed for carrying out sporadic attacks on coalition forces. I was wondering whatever happened to The Secret Army of Doom... Afghan Commander Mohammed Hasan, who took part in the operation, said the arrests were made in Jay Khawaja, a central neighborhood in Kandahar city, in the nearby district of Arghandab and in the border town of Spin Boldak. Haji Payo Khan, deputy commissioner of Spin Boldak, told Reuters by telephone that U.S. forces launched the crackdown three days ago and had arrested a number of people. Sounds like they picked up the lead in the city, then followed it to Arghandab, and from there to Spin Boldak, on the border. International politix prevents them from following it to Quetta, and from there to Lahore, to Karachi, and from there to Riyadh... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 Where is Hekmatyar? It looks like Hek-the-Hizbi is fighting to the last Pashto. He spent the last two wars in Iran. What a brave jehadi! |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-12-09 22:08:13 |
| #2 Import the Truncheons and bring it on! |
| Posted by: Brian 2002-12-09 18:45:49 |
| #1 "I was wondering whatever happened to The Secret Army of Doom..." Well obviously, they aren't so secret anymore :-) But seriously folks, there's a recent report in the news that we're going to draw down our presence in Afghanistan, and move to more construction projects, nation building and the like. Wondering if that's such a good idea when we're still finding cells of Taliban fighters and weapons caches. Anybody really think that the new Afghani army can handle this? |
| Posted by: Steve White 2002-12-09 13:29:05 |