Posted on 03/22/2007 3:56:54 AM PDT by HAL9000
AFP via translation -
Afghan south: 40 talibans killed in engagements with NATO
KANDAHAR (Afghanistan) - Approximately 40 talibans were killed in engagements against the Afghan forces and those of NATO Thursday in the province of Helmand, in the south of Afghanistan, announced the local police force.
During a joint operation against the talibans who began this morning with Lashkar Gah and Gereshk, approximately 40 talibans were killed, affirmed in AFP the chief of the provincial police force, Isau Khan.
Lashkar Gah is the capital of the province of Helmand, epicentre of the recent combat between talibans and the Afghan and foreign forces, while Gereshk, more in the south, had been, these last months, briefly occupied on several occasions by the talibans.
I love it when me days starts by reading that 40 Taliban are now taking the dirt nap.
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