In a fierce attack backed by NATO forces against Taliban rebels in different areas in Girishk district of Helmand province about 100 people were killed, together with 69 rebels, and several other injured.
The offensive started on Thursday and lasted for two days where seven policemen were killed and 19 Afghan soldiers injured as well, which later turned into a ‘cleaning up operation’ with additional troops. Zahir Azimi, Defense Ministry spokesman, asserted
Even though our forces did not have enough equipment like tanks and armed vehicles but with the weapons that they had ... they could inflict heavy losses on the enemy in several hours of fighting.
In another confrontation in the southern province of Kandahar on Friday, 12 private Afghan security guards and an Afghan driver were slaughtered by the Taliban fighters in a trap on the fleet of goods for coalition forces.
With the break of the spring, just after relatively hard winters Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters become more active in the Pak-Afghan border area, which they utilize as a base to launch their attacks on NATO and Afghan forces and a safe refuge when counterattacked by troops in return.
Year 2007 is going to be very crucial that will direct the future and destiny of Afghanistan as the US senate has set a deadline for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq as well as Afghanistan that will start leaving the militancy and drug smacked nation by the end of 2008. The coalition force later said,
This particular component of Operation Achilles is being conducted to put pressure on Taliban extremists, foreign terrorists and their narco-trafficking criminal associates that continue to operate within the general population.
Previous year was the most lethal since the Taliban extremists were throw out of the control in Afghanistan by U.S. led forces in 2001. We can smell another bloody year, for both belligerent Islamic terrorists and the allied forces are ready to take on and oust each other from Afghanistan.
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