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| Bomb kills three tribal elders in western Afghanistan | |
| 2011-04-11 | |
[Pak Daily Times] A roadside kaboom killed three tribal elders in western Afghanistan on Sunday, possibly in retaliation for their cooperation with the government.
One of the dead, Sayyed Ahmed, was the head of the group of tribal elders who organised the meeting, said Abdul Basir Kherkywi, the head of Farah province's local council. The meeting was common knowledge in the area and officials said the men were probably directly targeted. "The enemy probably knew they'd be driving on this road," said Yonus Rasouli, the deputy governor. No one immediately grabbed credit for the attack, but the Taliban and other turban groups regularly target Afghans working with the government or international forces. Also Sunday, a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... service member was killed in an attack in the north of the country, the international military coalition said. It did not provide further details or the nationality of the dead. Meanwhile, ...back at the shattered spaceship, Ffffirgoll the Arcturan slithered stealthily toward the control room... Afghan officials said they captured a district-level Taliban capo in southern Uruzgan province. Kareem Daad, who was captured in an overnight raid, oversaw turban operations in Shahidi Hassas district, said Milad Ahmad Mudasir, a front man for the provincial government. Taliban representatives could not be immediately reached to confirm whether Daad was one of their operatives. | |
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