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 |  Subject: 20 Taliban Killed in Afghan Operation  October 31st 2007, 8:23 am | |
| Investigators gather around the wreckage of a vehicle after it was hit by a ...
By NOOR KHAN, AP
Wed Oct 31, 1:14 AM EDT
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan —
An operation in southern Afghanistan involving 200 Afghan police working alongside Western troops killed 20 Taliban fighters, officials said Tuesday.
Afghan police and NATO and coalition soldiers surrounded two villages in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province on Monday and Tuesday, killing 20 Taliban fighters and wounding 25, said provincial police chief Sayed Afgha Saqib.
"The Taliban are trying to run away, but we have the area surrounded," Saqib said. "We are on the offensive, and they are on the defensive."
Saqib said no police had been killed, but another government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to the media, said three officers died.
Elsewhere in Kandahar province, a U.S.-led coalition soldier was killed Tuesday while conducting combat operations in Sperwan Ghar, a coalition statement said.
Saqib said eight Taliban were killed in that fight. Six Taliban also were killed in Zhari district after an ambush attempt on police.
In western Afghanistan, in Farah province, 20 Taliban fighters were killed and wounded, including three commanders, said provincial police chief Gen. Abdul Rahman Sarjang. He said civilians had joined in the fighting on the police side, but that seven of them were killed.
Sarjang claimed some 300 Taliban have gathered in the area, and that police were sending reinforcements.
In the east, a roadside blast killed the intelligence chief of Qarghayi district in Laghman province as he was traveling in his car, said Nezamuddin, a spokesman for Laghman's governor who goes by only one name. The vehicle was destroyed and three of his bodyguards killed.
Violence in Afghanistan this year is the deadliest since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. More than 5,300 people have died this year due to insurgency-related violence, according to an Associated Press count based on figures from Afghan and Western officials.
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