NATO: 13 Afghan insurgents killed by missile

NATO: 13 Afghan insurgents killed by missile
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Jan 12, 2010 7:08:04 EST

KABUL — Thirteen insurgents were killed Tuesday in southern Afghanistan by a missile that international forces fired from an unmanned aerial vehicle, NATO said.

NATO said coalition troops saw a group of insurgents near a safe house preparing ammunition as well as insurgent mortar teams moving equipment in the Naw Zad area of Helmand province. The international force launched one missile, killing the 13 militants.

On Monday, another missile fired from an unmanned aircraft killed three insurgents farther south in the Nad Ali district of Helmand, NATO said.

In the south-central part of the country, a member of the Afghan National Police was killed and two others were wounded in a suicide attack Monday night at a police station in Uruzgan province, police chief Juma Gul Hamit said. The suicide bomber detonated his cache of explosives near the gate of the police chief’s office in Dihrawud district.

Hamit said the attacker tried to enter the office where a meeting was underway. Although wounded by police, the bomber detonated his explosive vest, killing one policeman and injuring the two others who kept him from going inside.


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unhappycamper comment: "international forces"... Sounds like Blackwater Xe.