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| Taliban Ambush in Northern Afghanistan Kills 22 Police |
| 2014-10-14 |
| [AnNahar] Talibs killed 22 coppers and maimed eight after ambushing a police convoy in northern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said. The early morning attack in Sari Pul province highlights Afghanistan's fragile security situation, with local forces facing a persistent Taliban insurgency as NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... winds down its military presence. The police were attacked as they traveled to reinforce colleagues in another district in Sari Pul. "They were ambushed as they were going from Laghman area to Alaf Safid. Twenty-two police were martyred, eight maimed and seven were taken captive," provincial governor Abdul Jabar Haqbin told AFP. Around 10 police vehicles were torched, he said. "They called for foreign forces' air support, but they arrived very late," he added. He said the attack sparked a gunbattle that lasted several hours and left 23 Taliban fighters dead. Kazim Kenhan a provincial police front man, confirmed the incident. The Taliban were not immediately available to comment, but the ambush is typical of attacks they have launched on Afghan cops. Also on Monday morning, a Taliban suicide boom-mobileer rammed his explosive-laden vehicle against a NATO military convoy on the eastern edge of the Afghan capital Kabul killing an Afghan civilian and wounding three more. The last attack on NATO forces in Kabul was on September 16, also when a bomber rammed a boom-mobile into a NATO convoy, triggering a massive blast that killed two Americans and one Polish soldier, and maimed a dozen civilians. Kabul was also rocked two weeks ago by a series of suicide kabooms staged during the inauguration of new president Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. . More than a dozen people were killed in several attacks on Afghan cops. The attacks comes at a testing time for Afghan cops as NATO combat troops will complete their withdrawal by the end of this year, leaving Afghan troops and police to fight the forces of Evil on their own. NATO's follow-up mission, which will take over on January 1, will be made up of 9,800 U.S. troops and about 3,000 soldiers from Germany, Italia and other member nations that will focus mainly on training Afghan forces and counter-terrorism operations. |
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