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| Afghanistan |
| Insurgents kill 4 in attack on Afghan checkpoint |
| 2018-12-06 |
| [DAWN] Afghan Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... targeted a police checkpoint in the 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, setting off a battle in which a policeman and three non-combatants were killed, according to a provincial official in Herat. Police front man Abdul Ahad Walizada said six of the attackers were also killed in the battle late on Tuesday. The Afghan Taliban effectively control nearly half the country and carry out daily attacks that mainly target security forces. Meanwhile, ...back at the hoedown, the fiddler suddenly struck a sour note. The dancing stopped abruptly. Everyone looked at Bob... in the eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province, the director of a local television station was kidnapped. Attahullah Khogyani, the governor's front man, said the TV director, known as Engineer Zelmia, was kidnapped late on Tuesday. Zelmia's driver was shot and killed. No one immediately claimed the abduction, but the Afghan Taliban and the hard boy Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group are both active in Nangarhar. In the eastern Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province, a suspected United States dronezap killed a local government employee believed to have links to krazed killers, said Shah Mohammad Aryan, front man for the provincial police chief. He said the strike, that occurred late on Tuesday, took place in an area on the outskirts of the scenic provincial capital, Sharan, where Death Eaters have been known to stage rocket attacks on the city. |
| Posted by:Fred |