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| Afghan police regain control of southern town after six days |
| 2006-09-12 |
| KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan security forces supported by NATO on Monday regained control of a remote southern town after six-day occupation by Taleban militants, police said. NATO warplanes launched airstrikes in the fighting in Garmser, in volatile Helmand province, that left 20 Taleban fighters dead or wounded, provincial police chief Ghulam Nabi Malakhel said. Only four militant bodies were retrieved as a big group of Taleban took their other dead and wounded away, he said. There were no injuries among the security forces. Taleban had seized the district headquarters on Sept. 6 after an attack that forced police to flee for the second time in two months. |
| Posted by:Steve White |