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| Afghanistan |
| Taliban kill district police chief in east Afghanistan |
| 2010-11-22 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Taliban Orcs and similar vermin ambushed and killed a police brass hat in eastern Afghanistan, provincial officials said on Sunday. The incident came a day after NATO leaders wrapped up a major summit in Lisbon to endorse plans to hand control of security in Afghanistan to Afghan forces by the end of 2014. Chief of police for Musa Khil district in restive Khost province Akbar Jan, was killed in an ambush by hard boys, provincial police chief Abdul Hakim Esaaqzai said. NATO says international and Afghan forces killed five Orcs and similar vermin in a series of attacks over the weekend. Troops killed two Orcs and similar vermin in Zabul province. Three civilians and a police brass hat died in Afghanistan on Sunday, as foreign forces and officials said more than 20 gunnies were killed in air strikes and fighting. The three were killed by a roadside kaboom in southern Kandahar province that NATO commanders said showed the hard boys' "complete disregard for the lives of innocent Afghan civilians". Last month, a bombing of a mosque killed the governor of Kunduz province together with at least 12 other worshippers. In the same month, roadside kabooms planted by Taliban Orcs and similar vermin also killed a district police chief in western Herat together with three other officers, and a district governor from eastern Nangarhar with two aides. |
| Posted by:Fred |