KB
12-07-2005, 07:03 AM
Anyone hear the nationalities of the two non-US, non Afghan casualties?
U.S. Says 22 Taliban Killed in Afghanistan
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Wednesday, December 7, 2005; 5:51 AM
KABUL (*******) - Twenty-two Taliban guerillas have been killed in two clashes with U.S. and local troops in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
Thirteen militants were killed in an operation at the weekend in the southern province of Kandahar, it said in a statement.
Three American, three Afghan and two other soldiers from the U.S.-led foreign force were wounded in the attack aimed at a cell responsible for carrying out attacks with improvised explosive devices, the statement said.
The military declined to release the nationalities of the two non-American foreign soldiers hurt.
It said nine other insurgents were killed on Tuesday in a joint operation in neighboring Uruzgan province.
Six Taliban fighters and a large cache of arms were captured in the Uruzgan fighting, in which one Afghan soldier died, the provincial governor, Jan Mohammad Khan, told *******.
The U.S. military said air support had been called in during the Uruzgan clash, which followed an attack on patrolling Afghan and U.S. troops. It said there were no U.S. casualties.
No Taliban member could be contacted for comment on the Kandahar incident, but earlier, a Taliban spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, said only one Taliban fighter had been killed in Uruzgan and put U.S. losses at three dead.
Uruzgan and Kandahar were Taliban bastions until U.S.-led forces overthrew their government in 2001 for refusing to hand over al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
The southern region has seen a spate of violence in the past week in which two U.S. CH-47 Chinook helicopters were forced to make hard landings after being fired on by Taliban insurgents.
This year has been the bloodiest for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the 2001 war. Nearly 60 American soldiers have been killed in Taliban-linked attacks, most in the south and east where the insurgents are most active.
U.S. Says 22 Taliban Killed in Afghanistan
*******
Wednesday, December 7, 2005; 5:51 AM
KABUL (*******) - Twenty-two Taliban guerillas have been killed in two clashes with U.S. and local troops in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
Thirteen militants were killed in an operation at the weekend in the southern province of Kandahar, it said in a statement.
Three American, three Afghan and two other soldiers from the U.S.-led foreign force were wounded in the attack aimed at a cell responsible for carrying out attacks with improvised explosive devices, the statement said.
The military declined to release the nationalities of the two non-American foreign soldiers hurt.
It said nine other insurgents were killed on Tuesday in a joint operation in neighboring Uruzgan province.
Six Taliban fighters and a large cache of arms were captured in the Uruzgan fighting, in which one Afghan soldier died, the provincial governor, Jan Mohammad Khan, told *******.
The U.S. military said air support had been called in during the Uruzgan clash, which followed an attack on patrolling Afghan and U.S. troops. It said there were no U.S. casualties.
No Taliban member could be contacted for comment on the Kandahar incident, but earlier, a Taliban spokesman, Qari Mohammad Yousuf, said only one Taliban fighter had been killed in Uruzgan and put U.S. losses at three dead.
Uruzgan and Kandahar were Taliban bastions until U.S.-led forces overthrew their government in 2001 for refusing to hand over al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
The southern region has seen a spate of violence in the past week in which two U.S. CH-47 Chinook helicopters were forced to make hard landings after being fired on by Taliban insurgents.
This year has been the bloodiest for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the 2001 war. Nearly 60 American soldiers have been killed in Taliban-linked attacks, most in the south and east where the insurgents are most active.