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| Afghanistan |
| 13 police, 2 US personnel, 4 insurgents killed in Afghanistan |
| 2007-05-07 |
| A roadside bomb killed five police and wounded two others on Sunday in eastern Afghanistan, while a clash and a suicide bombing in the west killed eight police and at least four suspected militants, officials said. A remote-controlled bomb in Ghazni province exploded as a police convoy was passing, killing five officers and wounding two others, Deputy Governor Qazim Allayar said. In the western Farah province, insurgents ambushed a police convoy on Saturday in Bakwa district and the ensuing gunfight left eight police and at least four suspected militants dead, said police chief Gen Sayed Aqa Saqib. Intelligence reports indicate that 17 suspected militants may have been killed or wounded in the clash but only four bodies remained at the scene after the gun battle, Saqib said. Two other policemen were wounded, he added. In neighboring Bala Buluk district, police opened fire on Sunday on a suspected suicide bomber, who then blew himself up, said Baryalai Khan, spokesman for the Farah police chief. No one else was injured in the attack. There were three similar suicide bombings on Saturday in Paktika, Paktia and Farah, in which no one but the attacker was killed. Another suicide bomb attack on Saturday killed two police officers in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province. Meanwhile, a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform shot dead two US soldiers on Sunday outside Afghanistan’s main high security prison in Kabul, US-led coalition forces said. “He fired into a vehicle being driven by US service personnel as they were leaving the prison. This resulted in the death of two soldiers and left two others wounded,” spokesman Major Sheldon Smith told AFP. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 My local newspaper this morning indicated that the Afghan "military person" was killed by Afghani soldiers after he opened fire on the US vehicle. The Afghan Army needs some serious work. If I were Karzai, I'd try to mobilize a "national militia" of locals to protect their small patch of Afghanistan. Of course, that requires that the population be loyal to the central government - something not quite perfect in Afghanistan. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-05-07 15:46 |