(KUNA) -- Afghan officials said that the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) killed 30 suspected Taliban militants in an operation in southern Afghanistan. All is lost!
The Taliban militants were killed in Kajaki district of Helmand province in air and ground operations by the NATO forces last night, Helmand police chief Nabi Jan Mulakhail told KUNA over the telephone on Wednesday. NATO forces so for did not release the casualty figure. At the same time, Taliban also neither accepted, nor rejected the government's claim.
Killing them in large numbers just makes them more determined, y'know. Best to do nothing.
Earlier in the day, NATO spokesman Brigadier Richard Nugee, during a press conference in Kabul, expressed the confidence that they would not allow the Taliban to re-emerge during the coming spring.
But he's walking into a carefully laid, deadly trap, of course.
Meanwhile, a suicide blast close to the Torkham border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan injured an interpreter with the NATO forces. The blast took place in the afternoon on Wednesday. It did not hurt the NATO forces, said commander of the border corps in Torkham Qahar Pacha.