[Dawn] A Taliban commander who planned attacking polling stations during next week's elections and four other hard boyz have been killed in eastern Afghanistan, Nato said.The military alliance said in a statement Sunday that Nato and Afghan forces killed the five on Saturday night in a village compound in the Nangarhar province after they displayed "hostile intent".
It said intelligence reports indicated that the Taliban commander was planning to conduct rocket attacks against voting centres during the September 18 parliamentary elections. The Taliban have vowed to attack polling stations and warned Afghans not to participate in what it called a sham vote.
| I recall that was tried in Iraq, too. Somehow that didn't end as the threateners planned. |