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Kamis, 01 Januari 2009

Taliban attacked the convoy of Governor Up to 20 killed

Kandahar, Afghanistan - The gerilyawan Taliban attacked a government convoy in southern Afghanistan, killing about 20 Thursday pengawalnya, said a provincial government jurubicara it. Head Musa Qala district of Helmand province, Abdul Salaam attacked while returning from a visit to a neighboring district, said Daud Ahmadi jurubicara that, as reported AFP. "The gerilyawan Taliban attacked him and killed 20 pengawalnya," said jurubicara the AFP and add to the number of victims may increase. The attack was in Kajaki district, Helmand province, a Taliban base and a province where some districts are predominantly gerilyawan.

Afghanistan security officials could not immediately be contacted to confirm the incident but a jurubicara said there has been an attack, that his personal bodyguard of the head of the police district that is.

"In this battle we killed 25 to 30 police," he told Reuters by telephone. "Two of the combatants, we also die a martyr and four other injuries." Musa Qala Taliban control most of the year 2007, using it as a base from which they unleash attacks, but Afghanistan and international forces retake the district last year that in one operation that lasted several days. The gerilyawan still active in the area and that other parts of the Kajaki including Helmand, where they say they received support from foreign Islamic militia. Helmand produces about two-thirds of illegal poppy Afghanistan and most of the heroin. Drug trafficking say gerilyawan the help of income tax is not in the form of official protection and cost.

Salaam own Muslim scholars and a former Taliban commander who then stand on the government before the beginning of military operations from 2007 to retake the district from the hands of gerilyawan. He became governor of Uruzgan province during the six years of Taliban, but most act as military commander of the Islamic combatants.

Taliban government be defeated by military leaders of the U.S. invasion late in 2001 because they refused submit associates Al Qaidah after their September 11 attacks in New York and Washington.

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