Posted on 09/01/2007 1:17:38 AM PDT by mdittmar
KABUL, Afghanistan—Afghan police and foreign forces killed around 40 suspected Taliban fighters, many in the region where the insurgents recently released a group of South Korean church workers they had been holding, authorities said Saturday.
Police attacked a group of Taliban late Friday who were planning to strike security forces in the central Afghan province of Ghazni, killing 18 of them and arresting six others, said provincial police Gen. Ali Shah Ahmadai.
"It was a successful operation," he said.
Taliban militants had been holding 19 South Koreans in Ghazni district for the past six weeks, but released them this week after holding unprecedented negotiations with the South Korean government.
In southern Helmand province, a combined police and U.S.-led coalition patrol came under attack with mortar, rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire. In the fight that ensued, "almost two dozen" insurgents were killed, it said.
No Afghan or coalition soldiers, or civilians, were killed, the statement said.
The fighting took place in Musa Qala district, parts of which have been under the control of Taliban militants for several months.
The Taliban ruled most of Afghanistan from the mid-'90s up until 2001, when they were ousted by a U.S.-led coalition following the Sept. 11 attacks.
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‘suspected Taliban fighters’
You gotta laugh at media reporting.
Police attacked a group of Taliban late Friday who were planning to strike security forces in the central Afghan province of Ghazni, killing 18 of them and arresting six others, said provincial police Gen. Ali Shah Ahmadai.
“It was a successful operation,” he said.
now why did this have to happen to a gang of peace lovin folks rosie sez are just ‘moms n dads’ jus like yoo n me?
Keep killing ‘em, in spite of how it may seem they don’t have an unlimited supply.
Hell gets a little more crowded every day.
Maybe it was just a wedding?
stacking them like cordwood! HA!
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