Nederland en Afghanistan 52

Al Jazeera bericht: 'Forty-one Taliban and six police officers were killed in a battle in southern Afghanistan in an area where the Taliban's leader once lived, a governor said on Saturday.
In the insurgency-hit Helmand province, an official was killed in a Taliban ambush on Saturday, police said. Nine police and several Taliban were wounded in Friday's fighting in Sangisar, a town 40km (25 miles) southwest of Kandahar, said Asadullah Khalid, the provincial governor.
"Acting on intelligence reports that Taliban have gathered in Sangisar to plan an attack in Kandahar, we launched this operation Friday and the fighting continued from morning to evening," he said, according to the Associated Press. Taliban denial. However, a Taliban spokesman, in a telephone call to Al Jazeera's correspondent in Islamabad, rejected Khalid's account. Mohamed Hanif said 15 Afghan police and one Taliban fighter were killed in Friday's battle. Khalid said that although major fighting near Kandahar had ended and the area was under control, a search was under way to capture Taliban fighters who had fled to a nearby village.' Lees verder:
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