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maddezmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 09:31 AM
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Taliban kill seven in attack on Afghan aid convoy
Source: Reuters

KABUL, April 7 (Reuters) - The Taliban killed at least seven Afghans in an attack on an aid convoy in the southwest of the country on Saturday, police said, as fighting intensifies after the bloodiest year since the militants were ousted in 2001.

Attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at the convoy, killing six. The seventh was a local woman killed in her home in the area in Farah province. No further details were available.

More than 4,000 people, 1,000 of them civilians, died in fighting last year in what NATO and the United States have called heavier than expected resistance by a resurgent Taliban, bolstered by record drug crops and shelter in Pakistan.

About 5,000 NATO and Afghan troops have launched a major offensive in neighbouring Helmand province, the opium heartland of the world's biggest producer

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