| Followup on yesterday's story. |
Six Afghan policemen were also killed, but there were no casualties among the U.S.-led forces in Friday's battle in the Zare Dasht district of Kandahar province, Kandahar Governor Assadullah Khalid told a news conference in Kandahar city. A number of militants' bodies had been recovered, he said. A senior provincial official who declined to be named said government forces suffered high casualties as several rockets mistakenly hit them.
A Taliban spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, put Taliban deaths at only three and said there were "high casualties among Afghan and foreign forces."
| "Yarrrrr! We moidalized 'em!" |
Khalid, the Kandahar governor, said some of the heaviest fighting in weeks erupted after Afghan and coalition forces came under attack during a search operation for Taliban hiding in the area
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