Fill out this form to email this article to a friend
About 50 Taliban killed in fighting, officials say
By Assocaited Press
Published October 21, 2007
KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S.-led coalition soldiers and Afghan forces killed about 50 militants in two days of major fighting near a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan's poppy-growing belt, officials said Saturday. Taliban forces fired rocket-propelled grenades and small arms at a combined coalition-Afghan patrol near the town of Musa Qala in Helmand province, sparking a battle that lasted several hours and involved the use of military aircraft, the coalition said in a statement. Nearly three dozen militants were killed. The battle was the second in two days near Musa Qala. The coalition said it killed more than a dozen insurgents Friday after the militants ambushed a patrol. Attack aircraft helped repel that initial attack, though the fighters tried to reinforce their numbers throughout the engagement, which lasted several hours, the coalition said. Elsewhere, a remote-control bomb exploded next to a police vehicle in eastern Paktia province, killing two police officers, said Din Mohammad Dirwesh, the governor's spokesman. Four officers were wounded in the blast.
[Last modified October 21, 2007, 01:52:56]
Share your thoughts on this story
|
News
Fifty years ago, they were screwed-up kids sent to the Florida School for Boys to be straightened out. But now they are screwed-up men, scarred by the whippings they endured. Read the story and see a video and portrait gallery.
Print
Email story
Comment
Letter to the editor
