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| Taliban Intelligence Network Has Developed Into Sophisticated System |
| 2004-04-28 |
| From Jihad Unspun A Taliban attack near the American military headquarters at Bagram Airbase has killed five American soldiers while their Afghan driver was also killed. According to details, on the main highway leading from Bagram, some Americans were coming home from Koh Safi using a private vehicle when their vehicle was bombed using rockets. Taliban have accepted responsibility for this attack. According to Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi, the Taliban intelligence network has developed into a sophisticated system and it was this intelligence was used to find out that the Americans were using a private vehicle to return to Bagram airbase. American soldiers have started to use private non-marked vehicles recently in an effort to avoid attacks by Taliban. The Taliban spokesman warned drivers of private vehicles not to take American soldiers as passengers because Americans will be attacked regardless of the vehicles they are traveling in and locals could be caught in the crossfire. .... According to other reports, American forces arrested a night watchman from a market in Ogyan Paktika and later executed him. It was reported that American soldiers gave the man a satellite phone and large sum of money to spy on Taliban and report any Taliban activity. But the same day the watchman reported to Americans using the satellite phone that some Taliban were in the market, and when American soldiers came to check the situation, a well planned ambush was carried out. The fighting was so fierce the Americans had to evacuate. Later on, Americans captured the watchman and killed him. Next morning they came back with his body and arrested five men and took the satellite phone and the money along with them. |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |