KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 7 — Six Afghan soldiers and a driver for an American aid agency were killed today in a raid by attackers suspected of being Taliban guerrillas. The Taliban announced today that in a separate attack it had killed five government soldiers.
Local government officials would not confirm the report of a second attack. But if the report is true, the total death toll would be the largest for a single day attributed to the resurgent Taliban movement in many months.
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Separately, in Kandahar Province, Taliban guerrillas said they had killed five Afghan government soldiers and wounded three in a rocket attack on a vehicle about 15 miles north of the town of Spinbaldak, also near the Pakistani border.
"Their vehicle was totally destroyed and the Taliban left the area after the attack," Mullah Abdul Samad, an intelligence official in the Taliban government that was overthrown in 2001, said by satellite phone from an undisclosed location.
Wait, I thought we defeated the Taliban? Bush said so right? And he's a man of integrity, right? Alas, no.
So Much for, “securing the peace in Afghanistan.” This White House had more important things to do. Like make shit up about nuclear weapons and terrorism ties, sit idly by while the cultural artifacts and archives of a 6,000 year old civilization were looted and burned, kill a bunch of civilians, Iraq conscripts, and US and British military personnel, etc.. But hey, at least we scored a victory in Afghanistan by…oh wait.
Afghanistan will never make the front pages again. Mark it down.
Taliban back up and kicking ass