Taliban take over south Afghan district

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban conducted a raid in Afghanistan's volatile south and took control of a provincial district, killing five people including the district chief and the head of the district police, the deputy governor said Friday.

The Taliban launched the attack Thursday evening on the Giro district of Ghazni province and during an hours-long clash killed the district chief and four policemen, including the district police chief, said provincial deputy governor Kazim Allayer.

Allayer said the Taliban set fire to several buildings in the district and cut communications lines. Deputy police chief Mohammad Zaman said police reinforcements have been sent to the area.

"Giro collapsed last night, captured by the Taliban after heavy fighting between the police and the Taliban," said Gen. Murad Ali, deputy regional corps commander of the Afghan army.

The Afghan army sent troops early Friday from Ghazni and Paktika to assist, Ali said.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_re_as/afghan_violence

[aquart]

1. And this is our "good" war.

WTF are we doing there?

[jmc247]

2. If you think Afghanistan is a good war and Iraq is a bad war you are kidding yourself

all wars are bad wars.

[aquart]

8. You missed the quotes?

[msongs]

3. endless long term republican party war failures nt

[ohio2007]

4. must be their spring offensive.kill cops,raid the police station

and hope NATO retaliates sloppily. I wonder if the local villagers welcomed the Taliban back to their native homeland. I doubt they can hold the area if that is their goal. Most likely wanting to start up the spring offensive plans they have been working on since winter.

[Solly Mack]

5. Oh, this just can't be - we defeated the Taliban...Bush said so

hehehehehe

[Eugene]

6. Afghan Forces Recapture District

Source: Associated Press

Afghan Forces Recapture District

Friday April 27, 2007 7:01 PM

By AMIR SHAH

Associated Press Writer

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Hundreds of Afghan soldiers and
police retook a district outside the capital from the Taliban
on Friday, pushing out militants who had seized the area in
fierce fighting a day earlier, a senior Afghan official said.

Marajudin Pathan, the governor of Ghazni province, said a
hastily organized force of more than 250 officers encountered
no resistance when they swept into Giro.

“The district is under our control,” Pathan told The Associated
Press by telephone. “There was no resistance because the
cowardly enemy escaped.”

He said police, assisted by Afghan soldiers and troops from the
U.S.-led military coalition, were combing villages in search of
any fighters still hiding there.

-snip-

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6592300,00.html

[ohio2007]

7. Wonder if the Taliban got what they wanted.

Just a hit and run test to see where the response teams will be pulled from.....