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'Several' Taliban killed in Afghanistan clash
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 7/13/07 | AFP

Posted on 07/13/2007 10:29:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

KABUL (AFP) - Several Taliban-led insurgents were killed when they ambushed an Afghan and US-led coalition patrol in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said Saturday.

The coalition did not give a figure for the rebel casualties but said over 15 insurgents attacked the patrol in Taliban-dominated Sangin district of southern Helmand province on Friday.

They "repelled the attack using effective small arms, machine gun and MK-19 fire," a coalition statement said, adding that "several Taliban were killed" and several more wounded in the brief exchange.

Insurgent attacks take place almost daily in Helmand where the Taliban are most active, fighting an insurgency since their ouster from power by a US-led offensive in late 2001.

More than 50,000 Western troops, the bulk of them under a NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, are deployed in Afghanistan.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; enemy; helmand; killed; oef; taliban

1 posted on 07/13/2007 10:29:49 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

Can’t we at FR organize some posters and fliers announcing a taliban rally at a certain time and location... first 100 potential terrorists get a free tee shirt or goat dancing lessons. Then drop a daisy cutter.

I mean, I’m thinkin couple hundred bucks for printing, and I bet my uncle sam would donate the cutter and throw in shipping and handling for free...?


2 posted on 07/13/2007 10:35:56 PM PDT by Walkingfeather (u)
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To: NormsRevenge
"several Taliban were killed" and several more wounded in the brief exchange.

At this rate, there won't be too many virgins left in the Islamic heaven. The ones that are left will probably look like....


3 posted on 07/13/2007 10:46:57 PM PDT by indcons (Liberals, circa 1960s, spat at the troops. Now, they shoot to kill instead.)
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To: Walkingfeather

So sad! s/


4 posted on 07/13/2007 11:15:57 PM PDT by Stellar-Spectrum ()!()
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To: Walkingfeather

How about pigs instead of goats?


5 posted on 07/13/2007 11:17:56 PM PDT by Stellar-Spectrum ()!()
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To: Stellar-Spectrum

Pig dancing lessons won’t work, sorry!


6 posted on 07/13/2007 11:19:26 PM PDT by Stellar-Spectrum ()!()
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To: NormsRevenge

Find ‘em, kill ‘em....


7 posted on 07/14/2007 12:07:17 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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