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Afghanistan
Clashes leave at least 80 militants dead in Afghanistan
2007-07-03
KABUL, July 3 (AP) - (Kyodo)— At least 80 suspected Taliban militants were killed in two separate clashes with Afghan-NATO forces, officials said Tuesday.
Fifty militants were killed in the Tora Bora area of Nengarhar Province, eastern Afghanistan, in an airstrike by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on their compound early Tuesday, said Noor Agha Zowak, a provincial spokesman.

The insurgents have been reportedly reoccupying and opening a new front in Tora Bora, a cave complex which borders Pakistan.

In Kandahar Province in southern Afghanistan, 33 suspected Taliban militants were killed and four others arrested in a joint Afghan-NATO operation in Zhari district late Monday, said Kandahar Gov. Assadullah Khalid.

The operation was carried out after seven Afghan police were killed by a roadside explosion in Zhari on Monday.
Posted by:anonymous5089

#6  Tora Bora is now Afghani for "Come here and die".
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-07-03 13:45  

#5  Hey! Thre's the meat grinder I asked for. I like it!
Posted by: M. Murcek   2007-07-03 13:26  

#4  Glenmore, you need to add "mostly wimmin and chilruns"
Posted by: Mike N.   2007-07-03 11:48  

#3  As long as we've been there, I would suspect there is'nt much of Tora Bora where they can still easily hide.
Posted by: plainslow   2007-07-03 11:45  

#2  Nice graphic. Made me laugh. (unfortunately, the grinder we're using just isn't big enough.)
Posted by: Captain Lewis   2007-07-03 11:26  

#1  This morning they are "80 suspected Taliban"; by this afternoon they will have magically transformed into 80 innocent civilians. Watch for it.
Posted by: Glenmore   2007-07-03 11:13  

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