16 Taliban killed, two commanders seized in Afghanistan

[maddezmom]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - NATO and Afghan troops killed 10 Taliban rebels and captured two suspected militant leaders in a raid on an alleged suicide bomb cell in southern Afghanistan, the alliance has said.

Separately, six Taliban were killed and two other insurgents arrested after a three-hour gunbattle with Afghan police.

One NATO soldier was lightly wounded in the operation against the suicide cell carried out early Thursday in the troubled Sangin district of Helmand province, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.

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Afghanistan suffered a wave of four suicide attacks and a bombing at the start of the week after a relative lull, leaving 22 people dead including four NATO soldiers.

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More than 3,700 people -- including a majority of insurgents as well as around 1,000 civilians plus Afghan soldiers and police -- have been killed this year, four times the toll for 2005, according to an official report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061201/wl_asia_afp/afghanistanunrest

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. AND WE CAUGHT THE #2 MAN IN AL QAIDA! HONEST! REALLY!

Yippee? Can we go home now?

[sam sarrha]

2. every time i see 16 Tailban killed .. i wonder how many of them were under the age of 5, or people

at a wedding.. i just dont trust the Government Propaganda Media Theater anymore

[moobu2]

3. Every time I read something like this, I think the exact same thing