Taliban fighters will not attack polling stations during next month's election in Afghanistan, a spokesman for the guerrillas said on Monday, but he vowed that the war against the government and US forces would go on. "We have decided not to target polling stations in civilian areas," a spokesman for the militant group, Abdul Latif Hakimi, said by telephone from an undisclosed location. "US and Afghan forces are setting up polling stations in crowded areas which if attacked will cause big losses," said Hakimi, who government and security officials believe is the main Taliban spokesman.US and Afghan government troops have killed more than 100 militants over the past few weeks in aggressive operations aimed at ensuring security for the 18 September election, the US military said. About 1000 people, most of them Taliban fighters, have been killed in clashes, ambushes and bomb blasts this year, raising concern about the election, particularly in the country's most-troubled areas in the south and east. US forces have suffered 47 deaths in combat in Afghanistan this year, four in a blast on Sunday, their worst casualty rate in the country since arriving in late 2001 to force the Taliban from power.