[ToloNews] At least six security force members were killed and five others were maimed in a Taliban
 ...mindless ferocity in a turban...
attack in eastern Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman .The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin. He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property. After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
province on Sunday night, said Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a statement on Monday.
The Taliban attacked a security checkpoint in Alishing district and clashed with security forces, the MoD said.
The MoD said that the Taliban attack was pushed back by the Afghan forces, and claimed the Taliban had sustained "heavy casualties."
In the meantime, Gulzar Sangarwal Neyazi, a member of the provincial council, said that at least 22 Afghan cops were killed in the attack.
"Dozens of vehicles of security forces were damaged in the attack," he said.
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the Taliban has not yet commented over the attack. 
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