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| Taliban Attack ANSF Outposts in Logar Province | |
| 2014-08-21 | |
| [ToloNews] Central Pashtun-infested Logar Provincial Governor Niaz Mohammad Amiri said nearly 700 Talibs attacked Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) outposts on Tuesday during the commemoration of the country's 95th Independence Day. Amiri says that the Taliban had launched coordinated attacks on security forces and their outposts in different districts of Pashtun-infested Logar province on Independence Day. The Taliban have not yet commented about the attack. The planned attack comes after five Taliban Death Eaters were killed in an attack in Azra district of central Pashtun-infested Logar province on Sunday night. Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai, Pashtun-infested Logar police chief, said hundreds of Taliban including foreign Death Eaters attacked Azra district and clashed with Afghan forces for hours. During the clash, one Afghan police was injured. "Our intelligence reports revealed that Pak, Chechen and Uzbek Death Eaters supported the Taliban Death Eaters wanting to take control of Azra district, but fled after clashing for five hours with Afghan forces," Ishaqzai said. According to officials, the Death Eaters have taken control of the district several times, adding that the Death Eaters have used the location as a means to earn money by smuggling drugs. The district of Azra borders Pakistain.
Afghanistan's security arrangements beyond 2014 are unclear, as Kabul and Washington have yet to sign a bilateral security agreement designed to keep a small force of American soldiers in Afghanistan next year and into 2016. Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... 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 Pashtunface 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... has refused to sign the agreement, although the two men vying to replace him have vowed to implement it immediately upon taking office. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... four months after going to the polls, a winner in the presidential poll is still not clear. The International Crisis Group said in a report earlier this year that the number of Islamist krazed killer attacks had increased by 15-20 percent in 2013 from a year earlier. The krazed killers' success, however, has been limited. They have yet to capture an entire province, and the government says strategic assets remain broadly under its control. Nevertheless, the mounting intensity of the Taliban's assaults poses an increasingly serious challenge to local security forces that have long relied on NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... support from the air. Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban front man, said the bully boyz were battling Afghan forces from all sides to overrun the district. "The area is under siege and we have already taken over many security outposts and killed many Afghan forces," he told Rooters by telephone. | |
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