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Afghanistan
Five Civilians Caught in Crossfire of Taliban-Police Clash in Herat
2013-11-02
[Tolo News] Five civilians and an Afghan Local Police (ALP) officer were killed in a clash between the ALP and Taliban gunnies on Wednesday night in western Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
province, officials said.

"The incident took place near a bazar in Shindand District of Herat province at around 5:30pm when Taliban gunnies attacked a Local Police forces convoy," Herat Provincial Council member Toor Mohammad Zarifi told TOLOnews.

Zarifi said that five unarmed civilians at the market, including two men, two women and one child were caught in the crossfire of the shootout and killed.

In addition to the police officer that died in the clash, another was maimed.

Zarifi said the victims were rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment.

There were no reports of krazed killer casualties, and the Taliban has not commented on the incident.

The incident came three days after a bus filled with a group of people heading to a wedding celebration in Ghazni province struck a roadside kaboom, killing 18 of the passengers including women and kiddies.

The Ghazni bombing received harsh condemnation from around the country, including statements from President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
, the Ulema Council and the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
who all blamed the Taliban for the attack despite the group not claiming responsibility.

The Herat clash on Wednesday happened the same day three ANA soldiers were killed and six others maimed in Sar-e-Pol province when their convoy hit a roadside kaboom.

According to a provincial security official, the soldiers were ambushed by gunnies after the blast and a clash ensued that continued for one hour. Reportedly twoTaliban capo was killed and another maimed.

Authorities reported a separate incident in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
on Wednesday in which seven gunnies were killed and one other maimed in a clash with the Maiwand 215 ANA Corps.

Dozens of mines also reportedly discovered and disabled by security forces in Sangin, Nawozad, Nad Ali and Greshk Districts of Helmand that day.
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