Taliban Attack Kills Six Afghan Soldiers

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=516&ncid=716&e=6&u=/ap/20030807/ap_on_re_as/afghan_taliban_attack

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Dozens of suspected Taliban fighters attacked a government office in southern Afghanistan (news - web sites) early Thursday, killing six Afghan soldiers and an Afghan driver for an American aid organization, a provincial intelligence chief said.

The attack occurred at about 4 a.m. in Deshu district, about 110 miles south of Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province.

At least six Afghans working for the American aid organization Mercy Corps were conducting an agricultural survey in the region and sleeping in the building, said the intelligence chief, Dad Mohammed Khan.

The driver had been sleeping in the same room with the soldiers. None of the other Afghan Mercy Corps employees were injured, Khan said.

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[ugarte]

1. These aid workers are either crazy or

have more guts than any soldiers. They keep getting hit and coming back, but you wonder how long they can stick around in such a dangerous environment.

[JoFerret]

2. The forgotten war

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[IndianaGreen]

3. Admission that the Taliban are resurgent

The Taliban, who were ousted in a U.S.-led war on terror in late 2001, have been waging a hit-and-run guerrilla war in the south and east of the country for over a year. In the last few months, they've stepped up attacks on foreign troops, government forces and aid workers.

http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/central/08/07/afghan.attack.ap/index.html

[Bertrand]

4. The Taliban?

Im not familiar. Perhaps you could give me a backround.

[pinniped]

5. Sounds familiar, I need a quick refresher course too.

I think they played a role in Czar Busholai II's so-called war on terrorism.

Were they part of that axis of evil thing?

[Spentastic]

6. Hmm

This must be the Taliban II. I mean we were told we comprehensively defeated the Taliban so this can't be them.

[newyawker99]

7. Hi sfg25!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: