Taliban, NATO fighting in Afghanistan(100 Taliban raid police compound)

[maddezmom]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - More than 100 Taliban fighters raid police compound in western Afghanistan, killing two policemen, an official said.

Meanwhile NATO and Afghan forces killed 94 Taliban fighters in airstrikes and ground attacks in southern Afghanistan, the military alliance said Sunday.

The 94 militants were killed in Kandahar province's Panjwayi and neighboring Zhari districts late Saturday and early Sunday and were separate to more than 40 Taliban who died in fighting in the same areas earlier Saturday, NATO spokesman Maj. Scott Lundy said.

The killings were part of a NATO-led Operation called Operation Medusa, which began Sept. 2 and has killed at least 420 insurgents, according to the alliance. Purported Taliban spokesmen have disputed the high death counts.

link :http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060910/ap_on_re_as/afghan_violence;_

NATO, Afghan troops kill scores of Taliban - NATO

KABUL (Reuters) - NATO and Afghan forces have killed 94 Taliban insurgents in a battle in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said on Sunday.

Backed by close air support, the militants were killed in two areas of Kandahar province in four encounters that started late on Saturday and lasted until just after dawn on Sunday, NATO said in a statement. It did not say if there were any casualties among NATO and Afghan forces.

link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060910/ts_nm/afghan_violence_dc_1;_

[SlavesandBulldozers]

1. kick

[shadowknows69]

2. Are we even going to hear about US casualties

if they're fighting under the blanket of NATO now?

[maddezmom]

3. 2 more died, but it's been buried

The alliance also said two U.S.-led coalition soldiers, working with the Afghan army, had died in combat late Saturday — one in the NATO-led offensive in Panjwayi, the other in neighboring Zabul province. It did not give their nationalities, but most troops in the coalition are American.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060910/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan