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| 18 Afghan Soldiers Killed in Badakhshan Attacks |
| 2013-03-08 |
| [TOLONEWS] Violent festivities with Taliban Islamic fascisti in north-eastern Badakhshan province have killed at least 18 Afghan National Army soldiers, officials said Wednesday. Another six ANA soldiers were maimed in the festivities. "Sixteen Afghan National Army soldiers have been killed in the Warduj District of the province on Wednesday," provincial front man Abdul Maroof Rasikh told TOLOnews. Two other the soldiers were killed on Tuesday in festivities with the Taliban, Rasikh added. The deaths in Warduj happened when a supply convoy of Afghan soldiers was ambushed by Taliban Islamic fascisti and most of the soldiers were held hostage, Rasikh said. "Negotiations using tribal elders as intermediaries were carried out and six of the soldiers were released alive, but another 16 were executed. The bodies were turned over to the authorities by the same elders" he said. Six Taliban Islamic fascisti were also killed in the festivities and eight others were maimed, he added. However, the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits... other security officials said that the security forces had launched a clearing operation in the district to clear it of cut-thoats. It was one of the single deadliest attacks on government soldiers by the Islamic fascisti in recent time. Warduj district lies along the highway leading into the Wakhan Corridor, an area of very high mountains bordered by China and Pakistain, and one that is popular with foreign trekkers. It comes a day after the Ministry of Interior said that 11 Taliban have been killed and 19 more injured in a joint Afghan cops operations across Afghanistan in the past 24 hours. "In past 24 hours, Afghan National Police conducted several joint clearance operations with the cooperation of Afghan National Army, NDS and Coalition Forces to clean some of the areas from faceless myrmidons and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan," the MOI said in a statement on Tuesday. The operations were done across Kandahar, Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Laghman, Zabul, Paktiya, Uruzgan, Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces. "During the same 24 hour period, Afghan National Police discovered and defused six different types of mines placed by enemies of Afghanistan for destructive activities in Nimroz, Kandahar, Faryab, Kunduz and Kunar province ... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country..... s," it added. |
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