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| Security forces kill 20 insurgents in Afghanistan |
| 2009-10-12 |
| [Dawn] Afghan and US forces killed 20 insurgents in separate operations in eastern and southern Afghanistan while a 12-year-old girl died in a roadside bomb blast, officials said Sunday. Afghan and US forces killed 16 insurgents during an overnight operation against al-Qaeda in eastern Kunar province, which borders Pakistan. 'Today a joint security force killed more than a dozen militants and detained a suspected militant after searching a mountainside compound in Kunar province known to be used by an Al-Qaeda commander,' NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement. 'During the search of the compound located near Tantil village, northeast of Jalalabad, the force received hostile enemy fire on two occasions and returned fire, killing the enemy militants. 'The joint force also found a number of rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, multiple AK-47 rifles and other grenades. All items were destroyed in place,' the statement added. An ISAF spokesman said 16 people were killed and there were no civilian casualties. Kunar's police chief, Khalilullah Ziayi, said: 'Sixteen people were killed. All of them were Taliban.' However, in the village of Tantil, residents Asghar and Sayed Hassan insisted that those killed were civilians, among them an 80-year-old man, as well as nine members of one family. This claim could not be confirmed by official sources. Kunar is known for high levels of insurgent attacks and as a centre of operations by the powerful Haqqani insurgent group, named after Jalaluddin Haqqani, which cut its teeth resisting Soviet rule in the 1980s. In southern Helmand province, a Taliban bastion, the Afghan army killed four insurgents in Garmser district on Saturday. And in eastern Khowst province, a police car was struck by a roadside bomb but none of its passengers was injured, the interior ministry said. However, shrapnel also hit a nearby car, killing a 12-year-old girl and wounding three other civilians, the ministry said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 killed more than a dozen militants and detained a suspected militant Perfect. Detain ONE for interrogation and kill the rest. Reduces future Gitmo release recidivism rate. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-10-12 20:30 |