Five police, 12 Taliban fighters killed in attacks in Afghanistan

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Source: Al Jazeera

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Readers can find below news reports from Western news agencies, as well as from a pro-Taliban news agency. There's no way to verify any of these reports independently.

The first casualty of war is the truth, as General Patton once said.
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Five police, 12 Taliban fighters killed in attacks in Afghanistan

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:53:37 GMT

DPA

Kabul -

Five police forces were killed in a roadside bomb blast in central Afghanistan, while Afghan and coalition forces killed 12 militants in southern region, officials said Sunday. The police forces were driving in a private vehicle on Saturday afternoon in Charkh district of Logar province when they were hit by a roadside bomb, Mustafa Khan Mosseni, the provincial police chief said.

NATO-led international military forces in Kabul said that the attack left four police dead and one wounded, who was treated by the alliance medics at the scene.

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Elsewhere, Afghan and NATO forces, acting on intelligence information, attacked several compounds near the Tarin Kot, the capital city for southern Uruzgan province on Saturday night, killing 12 Taliban fighters, Juma Gul Hemat, the provincial police chief said.

Mullah Amanullah, one of the Taliban commanders was among those killed in the raid, Hemat said, adding that four bodies of the militants, which were left on the battlefield, were handed over to the elders in the area for burial.

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[bertman]

1. This kind of reporting is becoming eerily reminiscent of the body counts in Vietnam.

Maybe it has something to do with our American predilection for sports--always has to be a score, so we know who's winning.

GET OUT NOW!!! Before we sacrifice more Americans.

Let the Afghani people decide who rules them and distributes the oil and natural gas through their nation.