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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan clash leaves two dead |
| 2002-07-19 |
| Fighters from the Afghan army and Maulvi Noor Mohammed, a local warlord, skirmished on Thursday in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan, said the Afghan army commander in the province, Hazrat Ali. Ali said two people were killed, including the warlord's brother, and six people wounded in the clashes 40 miles west of Jalalabad. U.S. special forces dropped a 500-pound bomb in an uninhabited area to stop the fighting. "Y'all stop that right now, hear? Don't make me come down there..." Ali said there was "al-Qaida activity" in the area and that one Arab was arrested during the fighting. Ali blamed Mohammed for starting the fighting. But sources in Jalalabad, the capital of the Nangarhar province, said the clash followed an attempt by Ali to disarm local residents in the area. They resisted and a gunbattle broke out. "You'll take my rocket launcher when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers!" |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |