Up to 38 Taliban killed as 4 al-Qaida suspects nabbed in Afghanistan

Afghanistan might be a truly functioning Democratic counry by now, if the Bushites had kept their eye on the ball instead of lying us into the nightmare that is Iraq.

There is just no damned excuse for this! None!

Up to 38 Taliban killed as 4 al-Qaida suspects nabbed in Afghanistan:

U.S.-led coalition forces and Afghan police killed or wounded 38 Taliban militants in Afghanistan as four suspected al-Qaida operatives were arrested by coalition forces in the country's east on Saturday, officials said.

The latest violence came as a senior NATO official said a major operation to crush Taliban fighters in the south was moving to a close.

U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces attacked a compound in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing 20 suspected Taliban militants, a coalition statement said.

The joint force used 'superior fire and manoeuvre techniques and lethal close air support to kill' the suspected militants after they had attempted an ambush in Shahidi Hassas district of southern Uruzgan province, the statement said.

There were no casualties among coalition or Afghan forces, it said.

Meanwhile, the al-Qaida suspects, accused of planning attacks on coalition and Afghan forces, were nabbed near Sal Kalay, a village in Khost province, along with assault rifles and a briefcase containing 'extremist-related documents,' a coalition statement said.