Suspected Taliban Kill Afghan Aid Workers in South

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An Afghan farmer milks poppies in Sangeen, 60km (37 miles) northeast of Helmand. U.S. forces are finding increasing quantities of drugs during raids to hunt Taliban and al Qaeda fighters.
Stringer photo

27 Apr 2004 05:12:00 GMT
Suspected Taliban kill Afghan aid workers in south

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An Afghan farmer milks poppies in Sangeen, 60km (37 miles) northeast of Helmand. U.S. forces are finding increasing quantities of drugs during raids to hunt Taliban and al Qaeda fighters.
Stringer photo
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Remnants from the ousted Taliban have killed two local aid workers in southern Afghanistan in increased attacks by Islamic militants opposed to the U.S.-backed government, an official said on Tuesday.

The Taliban attack on the office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (CHA) in Panjwai district of Kandahar province late on Monday was carried out at simultaneously with a raid on the district's police headquarters, the official said.

"As a result of the two attacks, two CHA employees have been killed, " said General Salim Khan, a senior police official in Kandahar city. "One government soldier was killed and six others were wounded in the other attack," he said, adding that some 200 government troops had been mobilised to hunt suspected Taliban in Panjwai, some 30 km (19 miles) west of Kandahar city.

No Taliban official was immediately available for comment.

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comment - I love that line - "No Taliban official was immediately available for comment."

[MSgt213]

1. I think if we had just finished the job there we wouldn't have had to go

after Saddam at all.