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| Afghanistan | ||
| Top Taliban commander killed in Afghanistan | ||
| 2007-04-24 | ||
| Afghan and NATO forces surrounded around 200 Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, possibly including top militants commanders, while US-led coalition forces claimed to have killed a key rebel commander in the country's northeast, officials said on Tuesday. Afghan and NATO forces have surrounded around 200 Taliban fighters, including some senior militant commanders, in a village in southern Uruzgan province, interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said. Bashary said the militants came under siege when they gathered for a meeting in Chora district and were warned to surrender or face an attack. He said the surrounded militants included some top Taliban commanders but did not name any. Deputy Interior Minister Abdul Hadi Khalid told parliament on Monday that it was possible that Mullah Dadullah, the top rebel commander for the southern region, could be among the fighters under siege. Dadullah is believed to have been responsible for the recent beheading of an Afghan journalist and his driver. US forces killed Taliban commander Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani in Helmand province in December. Khalid said that if the militants did not surrender, the joint forces would move forward and capture them.
In another development, two policemen were killed and five wounded when a remote-controlled bomb blew up their vehicle in Shamelzo district of southern Zabul province on Monday, said Abdul Ghafar Safi, the provincial police chief. UPDATE: Afghan and coalition forces launched an overnight operation late Monday in Bakwa district in western Farah province, said a spokesman for the provincial police chief Baryalai Khan. He said two suspected militants were killed and two wounded, while two police personnel were also wounded, and eight suspected militants arrested in the ongoing operation. Acting on a tip in the volatile southern province of Zabul, Afghan army and NATO troops surrounded Taliban militants Monday evening and asked that they surrender, said regional Afghan army commander Gen. Rahmetullah Raufi. The Taliban opened fire, and the ensuing battle left 11 Taliban dead, but there were no casualties among Afghan or NATO troops, Raufi said. Provincial police chief Gen. Mohammad Qasim Khan said NATO troops were also involved in the siege, but NATO and the U.S.-led coalition said Tuesday they had no information to support the Afghans' account and denied their troops were involved in such an operation. A Taliban spokesman in the south, Qari Yousef Ahmadi, said the Taliban were not trapped and that Dadullah was not in the area. | ||
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 That Six Sigma always was a killer. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2007-04-24 14:05 |
| #2 Must have been meeting for Q1 performance reviews... Yousef, you are at 78% to forecast and your expenses straight line for 07 at 128%. What is your plan??? Do I need to shake some turbans in your region?... Hey, someones at the door... I thought we had this conference room booked all day. |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2007-04-24 12:14 |
| #1 Again. |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2007-04-24 09:51 |
