Feb 16, 2004
By Zafir Jamaal, JUS
After rumors of the presence of Osama Bin Laden in the province of NWFP, four FBI agents have arrived in Kohat, Pakistan. One of the agents is a female. The agents have taken residence in government rest houses and the workers have been replaced by Pakistani intelligence agencies who have taken posts as the “butlers” for these agents. These FBI agents are rumored to be here to assess the possibility of a large-scale operation in Karam and Aurakzai agencies in the tribal area of Pakistan to search for Osama Bin Laden.
In the province of Paktia, a Taliban attack has resulted in the deaths of three Afghan soldiers and wounded two others. The attack took place near Gardez when a check post of Afghan army was attacked Friday. The soldiers eventually abandoned their post and the Taliban burned it to the ground.
Taliban have also started to take operations against the strategic assets of coalition forces and have destroyed a supply container in Gardez. The supplies inside the shipping container were completely destroyed.
In Khost, a bomb blast near a police check post Friday killed two Afghan soldiers and wounded nine others, including 5 soldiers.
Eight people were killed in attacks on the district headquarter of Sarobi, Paktika and Kabul. The attack on Sarobi was carried out by same attackers who had fired up to 21 rockets on the Khost Airport. The attack on Sarobi district government also wounded five others people.
A rocket attack in Kabul also on Friday targeted the residential compound housing of high ranking government officials of the Karzai regime and in the attack 3 officials and one child were killed.
In Logar, Taliban Mujahideen ambushed a coalition convoy, causing panic in the ranks but no casualties were reported. (JUS)