200 Taliban fighters surrounded

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan forces have trapped up to 200 Taliban fighters in a southern village, possibly including the militia's military commander, demanding they surrender or come under attack, Afghan officials said Monday.


Afghan police and government officials said the suspected Taliban fighters were surrounded as they gathered for a meeting in the mountain village of Keshay in Uruzgan province on Saturday.

Provincial police chief Gen. Mohammad Qasim Khan said NATO troops were also involved in the siege, but NATO spokeswoman Lt. Col. Angela Billings said she had no such information.

Khan told The Associated Press that Mullah Dadullah, a close aide to Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar, and other regional Taliban commanders were at the meeting when the village was surrounded. The security forces were still positioned around the village on Monday, he said.

"We are trying to get him to surrender and to arrest these Taliban without fighting," he said.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070423/ap_on_re_as/afghan_violence

[Marrah_G]

1. Lock them all the hell up for a very long time

They are the poster children for human rights violations. Lock them up, throw them into burkas, deny them medical care and deny then the right to speak for as many years as they did to the women of Afghanistan.

[TX-RAT]

2. Don't sweet talk them Marrah

Tell them like it is.

[Stella_Artois]

3. You missed some things out

They should be denied education, and then some of them should be picked at random and marched to a football stadium where they will be shot in the back of the head.

I don't give a shit about what America did or did not do in Afghanistan or anywhere else, what the Taliban did is without excuse.

[ohio2007]

4. ...might be a good time for an impromptu wedding celebration

so much for the spring offensive as it seems the honeymoon is over eh?

[VegasWolf]

5. bush has them on the run. The OK Corral was always bush's favorite story. nt

[Robbien]

6. I don't believe it for a minute

The Afghanis are just showboating trying to prove they are worth every single dime we pay them.