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| Nine guards, seven Taliban killed in Afghanistan |
| 2010-11-16 |
| [Emirates 24/7] Nine security guards and seven Taliban were killed on Monday in a shootout at a telecommunications tower in northern Afghanistan, a police commander said. "This morning Taliban attacked a telephone-antenna guarding post," Kunduz provincial policechief Abdul Rahman Sayedkhaili told AFP. "The guards put up a resistance. Nine guards and seven Taliban were killed." Police reinforcements were later sent to the scene and one officer was also killed, he added. Telephone antennae have become a target for the Taliban and other gun-hung tough guys since the hard boy group banned mobile telephone communications at night in areas they control. The rebels maintain that the Afghan cops and their international backers in the 150,000-strong US-led Nato force track down faceless myrmidons using mobile phone signals. Residents say that all mobile phones go down after dark in Kunduz, a troubled province where the Taliban have a strong presence. Monday's attack came after 10 people were killed, including three children, and 18 others were maimed when a cycle of violence bomb went kaboom!in a market in a remote town in Kunduz on Saturday. The attack bore the hallmarks of the Taliban, with local police saying that the target was a pro-government militia commander, who died in the blast. Earlier Saturday, Taliban fighters attempted to storm Jalalabad airport in eastern Afghanistan, which is one of the country's main military bases for foreign forces. The hardline Taliban were in power in Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001 when they were ousted in a US-led invasion after the September 11 attacks in the United States. They have since mounted an increasingly bloody insurgency to regain power and drive out tens of thousands of foreign troops now based in Afghanistan to protect the Western-backed government of President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai. Militants have been increasing attacks over the last nine years and 2010 is currently the deadliest for the 150,000-strong international force, with more than 640 foreign soldiers killed. Seven foreign service personnel were killed in separate Islamic exemplar attacks and by roadside kabooms in southern and eastern Afghanistan on Sunday in one of the deadliest days for the 48-nation coalition in recent months. |
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