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| Afghanistan |
| Three Afghans Killed, Four Abducted in Attacks |
| 2003-03-22 |
| Three Afghan soldiers were killed and four kidnapped in two separate pre-dawn attacks on security checkposts near the eastern border town of Spin Boldak, police said on Saturday. A police official said the simultaneous attacks, in which two soldiers were also injured, were the work of the Taliban and renegade warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-e-Islami group. Who else? One of the injured men said grenades and machine guns were used in the strikes, 6 to 12 miles north of Spin Boldak, the official said. A man claiming to have been an official in the former hardline Taliban regime told Reuters, on condition of anonymity, that remnants of the Taliban had carried out the attacks. In the southeast, where troops are combing mountain caves and conducting house-to-house searches, a major military operation entered its third day and the U.S. Army said it had arrested two men and found a cache of weapons and ammunition. Afghan officials had earlier said 12 people, including members of former Taliban regime and Hezb-e-Islami, had been arrested in Operation Valiant Strike, which began almost simultaneously with the Iraq war on Thursday. But U.S. military spokesman Colonel Roger King said only two had been arrested, adding there had still been no encounter with enemy forces in the operation in Kandahar province, the biggest military operation in months. The two men were detained after a small cache of ammunition of small arms was found, he said. Toldja they'd beat it back to Pakland. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Lets git 'buddins head on a stick |
| Posted by: jon lemming 2003-03-22 16:45:06 |
| #1 if Sam Peckinpah were alive, he'd be remaking a movie: "Bring Me The Head Of |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-03-22 10:43:56 |