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| Afgan soliders kill 48 Taliban fighters in Kabul | |
| 2009-06-25 | |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] Afghan soldiers have killed 48 Taliban fighters in two operations in southern Afghanistan aimed at clearing Taliban strongholds ahead of presidential elections in August, officials and the army said Wednesday. Local troops backed by NATO-led international forces stormed a Taliban stronghold in the southern province of Uruzgan on Tuesday, killing 23 insurgents, Afghan army General Sher Mohammad Zazai told AFP. "We had an operation in Chinarto area last night during which we located a Taliban hideout. We killed 23 enemy fighters," Zazai said.
The operation was part of an anti-insurgent drive recently launched to dislodge Taliban fighters from their strongholds ahead of the August 20 presidential elections, the general said. The Afghan defense ministry reported separately that troops had killed 25 "terrorists" in a three-day clean-up operation that ended on Tuesday in the southern province of Helmand. Helmand, the main producer of Afghanistan's illegal opium, sees some of the worst of the insurgency, with a handful of districts said to be under insurgent control. U.S. national security adviser James Jones visited the province on Wednesday as part of a tour of Afghanistan to assess implementation of a new U.S. strategy against the Taliban that promises more troops, money and development. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 if they were killed in south afghanistan, it wasn't in Kabul |
| Posted by: lord garth 2009-06-25 07:58 |
| #2 Heh heh. Killing them off faster than they can breed. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-06-25 03:22 |
| #1 The Taliban headcount seems to be rising almost exponentially on both sides of the border. And the Taliban dead are not being rolled into the civilian death count (Don't want to embarrass The Won I suppose). |
| Posted by: tipover 2009-06-25 00:40 |