Posted on 08/25/2006 5:06:51 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Around 30 Taliban killed in clashes with NATO, Afghan forces
Wed Aug 23, 1:06 PM ET
Afghan soldiers fought back Taliban who stormed an isolated outpost, killing 18 rebels, while NATO forces bombed 11 more who were moving into position for attack.
The Taliban fighters charged an Afghan army outpost before dawn in relatively calm Zabul province, setting off a fierce gun battle which left 18 attackers dead, a top Afghan army commander said.
An Afghan soldier was also killed and three wounded in the attack 70 kilometres (43 miles) north of the provincial capital Qalat, said General Rahmatullah Raufi, commander of the volatile south.
Four more civilians also became victims of a relentless Taliban insurgency, one of them shot by Canadian troops who thought he was about to attack, while a Canadian soldier died after being wounded in a suicide bombing.
News of the latest violence came as the commanders of the Afghan military, NATO and US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan met their counterparts from Pakistan to discuss the upsurge in fighting.
The insurgency has grown each year since the Taliban were driven from power in late 2001, with officials saying their strategy is more sophisticated and backed from abroad -- notably from elements inside Pakistan.
Meanwhile NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) killed 11 more rebels in a precision air strike on a group spotted by air surveillance moving into position for an ambush, the force said.
The militants realized they had been seen and fled into a compound, it said.
War planes were called in and dropped a bomb. ISAF "assesses 11 Taliban were killed in the airstrike while two insurgents were later seen leaving the compound," a statement said.
The attack was in the Panjwayi district of Kandahar province which ISAF officials say has the biggest concentration of Taliban fighters in the south, the birthplace and heartland of the extremist movement that emerged in the early 1990s.
The attacks was near Highway One, a key road in the south where four Canadian soldiers were killed in a barrage of attacks on the same day early this month.
ISAF says the rebels are trying to seize the east-west route to cut links to nearby Kandahar, the first city captured by the Islamists before they swept to power in 1996.
The 15th Canadian soldier died Tuesday as a result of hostile action. The young corporal was in a military convoy struck by a taxi filled with explosives, which was rammed into an armoured vehicle by a suicide bomber.
Taliban commanders have said they have hundreds of other suicide bombers ready to be called into action against "infidels".
Nearly 80 foreign troops and 1,000 rebels have been killed in fighting this year in some of the fiercest battles since the Taliban were forced from government in late 2001.
Scores of civilians have also been affected by the violence.
ISAF said its soldiers had shot and killed one man who had failed to heed warnings to halt in a cordoned-off area around Tuesday's suicide blast.
The troops had fired warning shots and had feared a "follow-on attack," ISAF said.
Three other civilians were killed and another wounded in two bomb blasts just outside Kandahar city late Tuesday on a road often used by NATO troops.
In the west of the country, 80 Taliban fighters signed up to a government programme that gives them amnesty if they lay down their arms.
But officials say many more young men cross the border from Pakistan to take part in what Taliban propaganda says is a holy war against invading foreign forces.
Generals of the Afghan and Pakistan forces agreed at a meeting with their NATO and coalition counterparts in the Kabul Wednesday to explore the possibility of joint border patrols to staunch the inflow.
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I was listening to Hannity & Colmbes last night....this hot little blonde sitting in for Liberal Alan was arguing with the lovely and delightful Ann Coulter. During the segment, the liberal babe said that things in Afghanistan were goung VERRRRRRY badly...we are losing don't ya know...because of that needless war in Iraq. Why the little liberal news babe diva wouldn't let Ann respond. Why could that be? Could it be that she knew Ann would make her look like the high school teeny bopper she appeared to be?
Oh yeah, and Terrorists in Iraq, Lebanon, and indeed around the world can be negotiated with according to the libnut theme last night....*takes asprin*
"Resurgent" Taliban ping!
At least the msm is reporting this every day..how the taliban are being killed..right?...they want to be fair..right?..(crickets chirping)..
Four more civilians also became victims of a relentless Taliban insurgency, one of them shot by Canadian troops who thought he was about to attack, while a Canadian soldier died after being wounded in a suicide bombing.
Same incident. See how media tries make things worse? The "man on a motorcycle ran through a cordoned off area, failed to heed verval and warning shots, then got shot, his passenger died from the same bullet that hit the driver. Keep killing those Taliban. 1000 here, a thousand there, Just keep shooting until there are none left (there will be no Islam either). If They want to stop them faster, start blowing up Taliban training centers and their teachers- destroy mosks and madrassa's, the indocrination centres of this evil.
so much for the taliban's spring offensive, whoops make that summer offensive, whoops, make that fall offensive......
Resurgent bump!
Thats Kirsten or Kristen somebody. She's on there pretty frequently and whatever conservative is on with her always makes her look like that. Liberals. Just scum is all they are.
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