Attacks kill 23 Afghan police, soldiers

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

KABUL, Afghanistan - Taliban militants attacked a police checkpoint in the south and killed 16 officers, officials said Monday. Seven Afghan police and soldiers were reported dead elsewhere as Afghanistan's bloodiest year since the Taliban's ouster drew to a close.

Violence in Afghanistan this year reached the highest level since the U.S. invasion toppled the Taliban militant movement in 2001.

More than 6,500 people — mostly militants — died in 2007, according to an Associated Press count based on figures from Afghan and Western officials. Also in 2007, 110 U.S. soldiers were killed in the country — the highest American toll since the 2001 invasion.

Afghan policemen were manning a checkpoint in the Maywand district of Kandahar province on Saturday when a large group of militants attacked, said Zemerai Bashary, the Interior Ministry spokesman


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[LynnTheDem]

1. No worries. George bUsh has a "reconciliation program" with the Taliban.

Then everything will be exactly as it was before.

Except for the additional dead, of course.

[Franc_Lee]

2. Afghanistanis being reported on when M$M refuse to report on Iraq latest deaths....

[gratuitous]

3. "Violence . . . reached the highest level"

I can't wait for Little Arfin' Annie to tell us just how "swimmingly" things are going in Afghanistan. Although if there's now any problems there, I'm sure it's all the fault of us godless libruls.

[Doctor_J]

4. Welcome to Talibanistan, aka "Bushland"

Miserable failure.