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| NATO kills 20 terrorists in eastern Afghanistan |
| 2010-12-19 |
| [Pak Daily Times] NATO troops killed more than 20 faceless myrmidons in fighting in eastern Afghanistan Saturday after a patrol came under fire, the coalition said, while in the north, Germany's chancellor made a surprise visit to her nation's troops. In southern Afghanistan, a jacket wallah targeting a district chief in the city of Kandahar killed two passers-by, including a child, and maimed at least nine more people, authorities said. Saturday's gunbattle between NATO forces and faceless myrmidons took place in the Tagab district of Kapisa province, where coalition forces called in air support after their patrol came under fire, NATO said. It added that Taliban capos were among the more than 20 faceless myrmidons killed. The fighting came a day after more than five faceless myrmidons were killed in a three-hour firefight in the same district following sniper fire on Afghan and international forces manning a checkpoint, NATO said. The coalition did not say what nationality the international troops were, but French forces are stationed in the area. About 3,850 French troops are deployed in Afghanistan, mainly in Kapisa and the Surobi district north and east of Kabul. A French soldier was killed on Friday after a reconnaissance mission came under fire in the neighboring district of Alasay in Kapisa, bringing the total number of French soldiers killed in Afghanistan since 2001 to 51. Separately NATO said a coalition soldier was killed in an terrorist attack in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, but it did not release the nationality of the casualty or the location of the attack. Another soldier died of an injury in the north of the country on Friday, NATO said. The German military said one of its soldiers, a 21-year-old, died of a gunshot wound that appeared to be the result of an accident at a military post in Baghlan Province, but the matter was being investigated. More than 670 international troops have died in Afghanistan so far this year. Germany currently has nearly 4,700 troops serving in Afghanistan and plans to start gradually withdrawing in late 2011. To the south, a jacket wallah went kaboom!" on Saturday near an armoured car carrying a district chief in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing two civilians, including a child, and wounding at least another nine, Afghan authorities said. NATO said the bombing had maimed 11 children. The bomber targeted Ahmadullah Nazak's car in a residential and shopping area of the city as the official was traveling to a meeting, said Zalmai Ayubi, front man for the Kandahar provincial governor. Nazak was unharmed. "I am safe and sound, and all of those who were in the car are also safe and sound," Nazak said shortly after the kaboom. He did not say how many people had been in the car with him. Irfan Hameed, a doctor at the local hospital, said the bodies of a man and a boy killed in the blast were taken to the hospital, which was also treating five men and four children maimed in the attack. Violence has been on the rise across much of Afghanistan, with the southern provinces of Kandahar and Helmand seeing much of the fighting. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Wanta Tse Sombodez - ello : Thunk Horse : Welcome Gaboogin : French Basis -Si |
| Posted by: GlibGoop2000 2010-12-19 17:09 |
| #3 It's the kind of article you can write safely from Paris ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2010-12-19 12:32 |
| #2 It's ever so odd that, once we turned our attention from Iraq to Afghanistan and moved most of our troops there, the violence increased dramatically. Very odd, indeed. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-12-19 10:03 |
| #1 Violence has been on the rise across much of Afghanistan... blah, blah... A long time cut and paste comment by msm scribblers. |
| Posted by: Willy 2010-12-19 08:47 |