Taliban Kill Seven Bodyguards of Afghan Governor

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3519529

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban guerrillas killed seven bodyguards of the governor of the volatile southern province of Helmand at the weekend in the latest of a series of violent strikes by the resurgent movement, officials said on Sunday.

Haji Mohammad Ayoub, deputy chief of police in Helmand, told Reuters Taliban fighters attacked a military vehicle carrying the soldiers at Sangin district, northeast of Helmand's capital Lashkargah, on Saturday night.

He said the governor, Sher Mohammad Akhundzada, was not traveling with them. Five soldiers died instantly and two within a few hours, he said.

Haji Muhammad Wali, a spokesman for the governor, said at least 10 guerillas in two cars staged the attack. They escaped but abandoned one car with a mechanical problem.

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_394072,00050004.htm

Didn't someone just say that the Taliban had been defeated in Afghanistan?


George? Did you tell another one?

[jenk]

1. I think Karzai has been drinking with Mr. Chalabi

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[PNAC_butter_jelly]

2. I hear them all the time, bragging about how we WON in Afghanistan

It's too bad that no one told the Taliban that they lost.. I think we let them all escape, so we would have a reason to stay there..

Karzai has no control over the country.. The minute we pull our bodyguards out, he's a goner, and he knows it..

Pakistan seems to be turning a blind eye towards the whole thing.. Every so ofetn they "catch" comeone, but for the most part, they look the other way.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. I should kick your ass for starting that Peanut butter jelly time

tune in my head! It's almost as bad as "It's a small world." (LMAO)
:toast: and welcome to DU. I love the name.

Bush needs to figure out that WE are the strangers in the strange land with the game he wants to play.

[Yupster]

4. This is the best

we're ever going to get in Afghanistan. as least for the forseeable future.

As long as Pakistan has no control of the borderlands, the Taliban will be free to come and go as they please. If we're lucky, we can keep them tied up fighting in the southern regions, with occasional terrorist bombings into the cities.

It reminds me of Vietnam and Cambodia where the Viet Cong could stage cross border raids into Vietnam and then retreat into Cambodia.

[Nottingham]

5. I think things are definitely escalating and its going to get worst!

If he wins again we are going to need a bunch more troops!

:bounce:

[Wwagsthedog]

6. I wonder if dim wit asked Putin...

...why the Russians left Afghanistan. Nahhh! He knows better.

[grasswire]

7. are these dead bodyguards American mercenaries?

Or are they Afghanis? They could be our contracted goons.