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| US forces kill 12 Taliban in Afghanistan battle | ||
| 2006-08-09 | ||
| KABUL -US-led soldiers and warplanes killed 12 Taliban militants who ambushed coalition forces in mountainous eastern Afghanistan, a US military spokesman said on Wednesday. Two US soldiers and an Afghan soldier were wounded in Tuesday’s battle in the remote province of Nuristan which borders Pakistan, Colonel Tom Collins told a press conference in Kabul. “There was a significant coalition engagement yesterday in Nuristan, in which enemy extremists attacked our forces with rockets and rifle fire,” Collins said. “Through the actions of our forces on the ground and the use of air support we killed 12 enemy extremists,” Collins said.
Nuristan is one of the provinces where Taliban-led militants are most active. It is a wooded mountainous area where they find it easy to hide.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #6 Interestingly, Nuristan was once called KAFIRistan. It was kafir because the locals refused to convert to islam in spite of centuries of jihad against them. In 1895, the brave lions of islam finally forcibly converted the kafirs. The name was changed to nuristan because that mean land of light or something. Like all recent converts, the nuristanis are especially fanatical and were the ones who fought the Russians most ferociously. So, I suppose that when the rest of us are forced to convert to islam because we won't fight it in a united manner (and in its practitioners fashion), we will be ferocious too. I feel ferocious already! |
| Posted by: Claviling Sholuth9192 2006-08-09 22:48 |
| #5 "Nuristan" sounds like a vitamin supplement laxative That's because it's Natisrun spelled backwards. |
| Posted by: L Welk Snoozin 2006-08-09 17:48 |
| #4 Let's just say you don't want to be stuck on a trans-Atlantic flight when your Nuristan kicks in. |
| Posted by: Dar 2006-08-09 13:55 |
| #3 Best way to win "hearts and minds" |
| Posted by: Captain America 2006-08-09 13:34 |
| #2 "Nuristan" sounds like a vitamin supplement laxative. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-08-09 11:12 |
| #1 Hope for quick and complete recovery for the soldiers. Hope they have the chance to kill many more terrorists. Hope for grief and suffering for the families of the Talibanies. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2006-08-09 10:40 |