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Afghanistan
Talibunnies 'Spring Offensive' Underway?
2008-04-06
KABUL (AFP) — US-led troops and Afghan security forces on Sunday killed a "significant" number of militants, the coalition said, a day after 15 Taliban were killed in attacks in the south. The coalition did not give an exact toll but a local MP said the battle in eastern Nuristan province, in which warplanes were also deployed, left 20 people dead including some civilians.

"The combined force repelled the attack with accurate small-arms fire and crew-served weapons. During the long battle, the insurgents reinforced their positions in several compounds with large groups of fighters," a statement by the US-led coalition said.
We were running low on targets so they graciously re-stocked.
It added that troops "inflicted significant insurgent losses" and that many rebels had been detained.

The statement said the fighters were members of Hizb-e-Islami, an outlawed militant group loyal to the former Afghan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is said to have joined the Taliban.
Bringing all his ferocious war-fighting skillz with him, like how to throw a grenade ...
Earlier, the defence ministry said 15 Taliban insurgents were killed in separate raids by Afghan and NATO troops in the southern province of Kandahar on Saturday. The interior ministry meanwhile said a senior Taliban commander whom it described as a deputy to Taliban top military commander Mullah Mansoor Dadullah was captured in Kandahar city.
Don't these 'leaders' ever go down fighting?
Posted by:Glenmore

#3  ION, WAFF.com > LA TIMES - NATO SUPPORTS BUSH ON MISSLE DEFENSE PLAN; + NATO ORDERS MISSLE DEFENCE STUDY -TELLS RUSSIA TO LINK DEFENCES.
The last article and siminlar should be of importance to PUTIN + MULLAH OMAR-TALIBAN, as it alludes to the looming irrelevancy of Putin = Russia's desired "MULTIPOLAR WORLD", WID POST-COLD WAR RUSS AS A DECISIVE PLAYER ON PAR WID THE USA, ESPEC IFF OSAMA = RADICAL ISLAM SUCCEED IN ACQUIRING POTENT NUCLEAR-WMD ARSENALS VV RUSS-ASIA [unsecure].

My interpretation of OSAMA BIN LADEN's most recent anti-VATICAN/EUROPE MSGS IS THAT OSAMA + RADICAL ISLAM DO NOT INTEND FOR POST-COLD WAR RUSSIA-ASIA TO BE A PAR PLAYER IN ANYTHING. "Multipolar" will be redux to TWO [US-West versus Nuclear Islamism-Terror], to be redux again later to ONE/MONOPOLAR [OWG Nuclear Global Islamism-State]??? IOW, NUCLEAR ISLAMISM WILL REPLACE THE COLD WAR SOVIET UNION + COMMIE BLOC vv US-NATO/WEST.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-04-06 20:22  

#2  Personally, I find them to be offensive year-round.
Posted by: Darrell   2008-04-06 15:43  

#1  "Talibunnies 'Spring Offensive' Underway?"

Maybe.

"US-led troops, Afghan forces inflict heavy Taliban losses"

Guess the "spring offensive" is underway. :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-04-06 14:49  

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