Posted on 06/06/2007 5:50:35 AM PDT by RDTF
KABUL, Afghanistan, June 5 — The Afghan Defense Ministry said Tuesday that a boat full of fleeing Taliban fighters had been fired upon by NATO helicopters and sunk in the Helmand River, in southern Afghanistan. All on board, between 20 and 30 guerrillas, drowned, said Gen. Zaher Azimi, a ministry spokesman.
It was the second sinking on the river reported in recent days. Another boat, carrying about 60 people, sank Saturday in the same area, although there were conflicting reports as to whether those aboard had been civilians or Taliban fighters.
General Azimi said that in Tuesday’s episode, NATO helicopters had fired on the boat after receiving fire from gunmen on the vessel.
He also reported heavy fighting elsewhere. Afghan troops were ambushed in Kandahar Province, also in southern Afghanistan. The soldiers called in airstrikes that killed an estimated 20 to 40 of the Taliban, General Azimi said. Two Afghan soldiers were killed and three others wounded over 24 hours, he added.
A member of the Taliban said one of five Afghan health workers kidnapped two months ago had been beheaded because Afghan officials refused to hand over the body of the Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah, who was killed last month. His body was shown to journalists in Kandahar and he was then buried in a secret location in the city, said Asadullah Khaled, the provincial governor.
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Allah be praised!.......
How long before the moonbats insist that all Taliban members are fitted with life jackets? /sarc
Bad week for the Taliban Navy.
It’s allah’s will.
Mahmood: "Watch me drop that helicopter, Allah Akbar!"
Mansoor" "Don't shoot yet you son of a motherless goat, none of can swim."
Something about ‘dying tired.’
Now we are killing them by the boat load. The ‘Rats are depressed at this sad news....
Fleeing? well, they are fleas, yes. But, my thinks the NYT is trying to drum up some sympathy, as if they were shot in the back. No, they weren't fleeing, they were merely regrouping, so as to plan and execute their next attack on civilization.
Ah...yes they have found their 72 virgin mermaids...how nice
It’s hard to swim when you’re hiding in a bhurka..........
So that explains those 30 oil slicks in the river.
The drive by media will tell you it was civilians and the ACLU will be screaming for NATO's hide.
Actually there are 60 less terrorist today than there were yesterday and that is fine with me.............
LOL!! I love Free Republic!
What do you call 30 Taliban drowned on a boat?...a good start.
Children
On the way to the baby milk factory
After building a Habitat House.
So the Times is interviewing Taliban "members"? I wonder if he is on staff with them?
Can Tali even swim at all?
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