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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan army planning to re-take district |
| 2006-06-02 |
| The Afghan army was planning an assault on a district in the southern province of Uruzgan that had been in Taleban control for more than 24 hours after being stormed by the rebels late Tuesday, an army general said. The strike on Chora district was being planned with coalition forces and police, said General Rahmatullah Raufi, military commander for southern Afghanistan. “The district is out of our hands,” the general said. A small deployment of police in the remote district resisted the Taleban assault, which some officials said was launched by “hundreds” of rebels, but fled after a few hours. The Taleban movement, trying to regain control of the government that it lost in a US-led operation in 2001, often claims to hold districts in the south where they are most active. This is the first time however that a government official has admitted they have been in control of an area for more than a few hours. |
| Posted by:Steve White |