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Charlie Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-05 06:24 PM
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Reuters: Taliban attacks kill 3 Afghan police
Edited on Sat Nov-12-05 06:25 PM by Charlie Brown
http://in.today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-11-12T182118Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-223245-1.xml

KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents killed at least three policemen and wounded eight in separate attacks in Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday.

The overnight raids were the latest in a series of attacks by Taliban fighters and happened in areas close to the border with Pakistan.

Two policemen were killed in an ambush the southern province of Helmand while a senior officer was killed when guerrillas attacked a police headquarters in the southeastern province of Khost, officials said.

The police headquarters was partially destroyed in the battle, they said.

Four policemen were wounded in the attack in Khost while four others guarding an Indian firm, involved in a road construction project, were wounded in another Taliban raid in the eastern province of Kunar.
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cantstandbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-12-05 08:21 PM
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1. I thought we had won the war in Afghanistan and destroyed the Taliban?
I guess we will learn what Russia learned with a war lasting over a decade. They are going to bleed us to destruction. The war machine will ultimately destroy our society just as it did the Soviet Union.
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MountainLaurel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-14-05 01:56 PM
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2. Me too!
I feel so disillusioned.
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