Taliban Targets U.S. Firm; New Operation Launched

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=6&u=/nm/20030901/ts_nm/afghan_fighting_dc

KABUL (Reuters) - At least 11 Afghans, two of them guards for a U.S. company, were killed overnight by suspected Taliban guerrillas as U.S. forces launched a fresh assault on hundreds of militants in the restive province of Zabul.


Afghan officials said Monday seven policemen and two soldiers were killed by fighters from the ousted Islamic regime in three raids in Zabul and neighboring Uruzgan province.


Four of the seven policemen died when a checkpoint set up to guard reconstruction work on the Kabul-Kandahar highway came under fire, Zabul's intelligence chief, Khalil Hotak, said.


Mike Staples, spokesman for the U.S. Louis Berger Group Inc, which was awarded the contract to repair the vital road link last year, told Reuters an Interior Ministry position came under attack at around 1 a.m. (2030 GMT on Sunday).


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This is buried under reports of Bush claiming he's going to get me a job. Sigh.

[pansypoo53219]

1. must be

to dangerous for halliburton.

[madrchsod]

2. what george is

going to get you a job!!dam must be nice....

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. I'm holding my breath....

thud *

[are_we_united_yet]

6. Now that was funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!n/t

[ScotTissue]

4. Try Monster or Hotjobs.

The President is not going to get you a job.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. Bu-but.... he just said he wuz gonna find everbudy jobs!

You ain't sayin' the Pres'dent'd tell us all a fib are you?