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2010-11-01 Afghanistan

Afghan official says 17 insurgents killed in south

[Arab News] NATO and Afghan troops killed 17 snuffies in an hours-long gunbattle in southern Helmand province, an Afghan official said Sunday.

Saturday's fighting lasted 12 hours and took place in the Dishu district, said provincial government front man Daud Ahmadi.

NATO and Afghan troops began pushing into the insurgency's stronghold in the south in July.

Also on Sunday, beturbanned goons attacked a convoy carrying supplies for the police, Education Ministry, and the UN's World Food Program in western Nimroz province, said provincial police chief Gen. Abdul Jabar Pardeli. Six beturbanned goons were killed and one policeman was maimed in the gunbattle, which lasted for more than two hours.

In a separate incident, NATO said that an ~~Arclight~~ airstrike on Thursday killed a Taleban leader and another snuffy in southern Zabul province as he was showing his fighters a new anti-aircraft heavy machine gun mounted on the back of his vehicle.

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