Saturday, April 15, 2006

Afghan battle kills 41 Taliban - South and Central Asia - MSNBC.com

Afghan battle kills 41 Taliban - South and Central Asia - MSNBC.com:

"KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Forty-one Taliban fighters and six Afghan policemen were killed in a fierce battle in southern Afghanistan, a provincial governor said on Saturday.

There were no foreign casualties in Friday�s battle between Taliban fighters and Afghan and foreign forces in the Zare Dasht district of Kandahar province, Kandahar Governor Assadullah Khalid said.

'Forty-one Taliban were killed in the fighting, mostly as a result of air bombing. Six policemen, including the Zare Dasht police chief, were also killed,' Khalid told a news conference in Kandahar city. A number of Taliban bodies had been recovered."

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