Six police, US soldier, killed in Afghan violence

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April 20, 2006

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents attacked a police post on Friday killing six policemen as gunmen opened fire on a patrol in a separate incident, killing a U.S. soldier, officials said.

Violence has surged in Afghanistan since the Taliban announced last month they had launched a spring offensive in their campaign to rid the country of foreign forces and topple the Western-backed government.

A senior government official in the southern province of Kandahar said the six police were killed in an attack on their post in the Maiwand district in the early hours of Friday.

A Taliban spokesman said by telephone from an undisclosed location Taliban fighters carried out the attack and seven policemen had been killed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060421/ts_nm/afghan_violence_dc


More successes in Bush's War on Terra. :sarcasm:

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1. "BRING EM ON" shouted the AWOL CHIMPANZEE

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6. Room for another one?

Grass Bush

Pile the bodies high in Austerlitz and Waterloo Iraq
Shovel them under and let me work--
I am the grass; bush; I cover all.

And pile them high in Gettyburg Baghdad
And pile them high in Ypres and Vedum Afghanistan and Iraq

Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?

I am the grass bush.
Let me work.

Carl Sandburg


Support the war - Donate a Son a daughter
The GOP working for a better America
God Bless America

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9. Always room for One More !!!!

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2. In deciding to go imperialistic on Iraq, Bush has lost us two wars

A focus on Afghanistan and crushing al-Qaeda there would have brought about an almost certain victory for us there. But when Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz became distracted by Iraq, they not only got us trapped in the Mesopotamian quagmire, they also effectively lost Afghanistan for us by draining away crucial resources. Now, Afghanistan is essentially a narcostate with little central government control outside the capital, and a resurgent Taliban. Mission-- not accomplished.

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3. And we have "The Mayor of KabuL" an Ex-CIA agent PUPPET

CHARLIE MCKARZAI

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5. terrible mistake.

[xchrom]

4. mission accomplished!

ooops! no wait -- mision sort of accomplished -- er no, that's not right -- stay the course! -- umm no, that's not playing well in peoria --

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7. rest in peace soldier.

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8. n.