Troops Execute Treacherous Militants

[unhappycamper]

Troops Execute Treacherous Militants
November 15, 2008
Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan - A strike by coalition troops against a bomb-making cell in eastern Afghanistan killed 10 militants, the U.S. military said Saturday.

The troops were targeting several key figures in a network run by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a militant leader believed to operate out of Pakistan, the military said in a statement.

Several groups of armed militants fired on the coalition troops during the operation Friday, according to the statement. The coalition forces returned fire, killing their attackers and destroying a weapons cache.

Separately, Afghan police said two national intelligence agents and one police officer were killed late Friday in a bomb attack on their vehicle south of Kabul.

The three were killed while responding to an earlier bomb attack that injured three police officers, said Regional Police Commander Gen. Zalmai Oryakhail.


Rest of article at: http://www.military.com/news/article/troops-execute-treacherous-militants.html

[leveymg]

1. That's a strange headline for AP. Did a court try and convict them for treachery, first?

Extra-judicial execution?:shrug:

[NYVet]

2. For a moment I thought that these were prisoners who were executed

Then I saw that it was a story about several firefights or airstrikes.



Nice way to slant opinion AP.