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| Insurgents Burn 26 Villages in Ghazni | ||
| 2011-06-19 | ||
[Tolo News] Insurgents have attacked on 26 villages in Ghazni province, looting and torching them, local officials said on Saturday.
The snuffies clashed with Afghan cops in Nahur district, the representatives added. The representatives asked the Afghan government to support the Afghan cops in the province. "The District Police Chief and Afghan National Army have not yet intervened in the festivities. But many villages are being set on fire by armed attackers," Hamida Gulistani, a member of Provincial council told TOLOnews. "There aren't any reports about whether they are Kochis, but they are Taliban who came from Pakistain," she added. It comes as four security guards escorting a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... convoy were killed and four others were maimed by roadside kabooms in Ghazni today, Minister of Interior Affairs said in a statement. The incident happened when two bombs hit a NATO supply convoy on Saturday morning in Di Khodaidad area highway, added the statement. The Interior Ministry said two of the guards were members of Compas, a private security company. Violence has recently increased in the province as forces of Evil have stepped up their activities in most villages. | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 A bit of translation here, since the article makes assumptions which aren't necessarily shared by your average Westerner. Nawur district is a Hazāra majority district (Wiki says 100%, which seems highly unlikely, but whatever), which means the people attacked are both Farsi-speaking and probably Shia. The "Kochi" or "Kuchi" are nomadic Pashtuns, who apparently have a nasty case of "what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine but I'll let you use in exchange for And given comments elsewhere of five fatalities & the villains responsible being a band of 150 hooligans, I'm thinking that this "26 villages burned" business is actually 26 family compounds or maybe just houses, because the numbers are totally out of whack otherwise. But this is looking like "bloody borders of Sunni Islam" violence more than typical Taliban warfare. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2011-06-19 19:12 |