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| Taliban Militants Kill up to 15 Police in Southern Afghanistan |
| 2015-08-14 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] Taliban Lions of Islam dressed in police uniforms killed up to 15 coppers after raiding a security checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, in the latest attack of their intensifying summer offensive. The attack on Tuesday in Musa Qala district in the volatile province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... highlights an expanding insurgency that has left beleaguered Afghan forces stretched on multiple fronts. "At least nine coppers were killed after Lions of Islam disguised in police uniforms attacked a check post in Musa Qala district," said Omar Zwak, front man for the governor of Helmand. But Bashir Shakir, a member of the provincial council, gave a higher toll, saying 15 coppers were killed in the late night attack. Taliban front man Qari Yusouf Ahmadi grabbed credit for the raid. The Taliban are stepping up their summer offensive, launched in late April, amid a bitter leadership dispute following the announcement of the death of longtime supremo Mullah Omar ... a minor Pashtun commander in the war against the Soviets who made good as leader of the Taliban. As ruler of Afghanistan, he took the title Leader of the Faithful. The imposition of Pashtunkhwa on the nation institutionalized ignorance and brutality in a country already notable for its own fair share of ignorance and brutality... . A wave of bombings since last Friday in the capital Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... have killed at least 56 people and maimed hundreds, prompting fury from President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. 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. .. who blamed Pakistain for failing to rein in the Taliban. |
| Posted by:Fred |