Taliban Wage Lethal Strikes As More Afghan Districts Come Under Taliban
Apr 16, 2004, By Zafir Jamaal, JUS

In reports just in from Afghanistan, different Taliban attacks have resulted in the deaths of three American and sixteen Afghan. Seven Afghan soldiers have been taken as prisoners of war by the Taliban.

In Khost, Taliban Mujahideen attacked a check post, killing nine soldiers. Also in Khost, Taliban and Afghan soldiers clashed in Matun. The clashes killed five Afghan soldiers while one American is missing. Eyewitnesses said that the Taliban attacked the check post with hand grenades and rockets. A total of five rockets landed on the post, killing the soldiers on the spot. Another Taliban attack in the town of Gomal has killed three soldiers and two others were taken as prisoners.

The Taliban have attacked the Afghan army, killing seven officials and wounded two others. In the Khost districts of Dabkai, Baqubi, and Suami, checkpoints are now under Taliban rule now and the white flags of Taliban were flying gracefully over the government buildings. Shariah law is being implemented now in those areas.

On the border of Paktika and Ghazni, a landmine planted by Taliban Mujahideen exploded under a military vehicle, killing two American and three Afghan soldiers. The convoy consisted of three vehicles and one was completely destroyed. The other two vehicles then confronted heavy fire right after the landmine explosion, which lasted for roughly 90 minutes. The firefight wounded one American soldier, who died on the way to the hospital. Two Taliban were also martyred in the battle and one was captured. The captured Mujahid was transferred to Ghazni.

Reports are coming of operations in Paktia involving Afghan and American army soldiers carrying out house to house searches that are antagonizing the local residents.

Even more concerning are reports that hundreds of fresh troops have arrived in Wana once again and dozens of Black Hawk helicopters are being seen patrolling the skies. The people of Wana are worried that the Pakistani Army has returned to ‘avenge’ the previous operation.

America is now accepting that the Taliban have heightened discipline in their ranks and are attacking with more vigor and organization than before. This was said by Captain Jan Chung to a foreign newspaper. He said that recently, American forces received two highly organized attacks. While he denied that any casualties took place in those attacks (which is the party line), he did accept that the attacks were better planned and coordinated. In reference to one attack we previously reported in Barmal, Chung said that the attack involved a ruse, in the form of a landmine that busied Coalition forces who were then ambushed by the Taliban firing automatic weapons from the surrounding areas. In that attack, 50 km from Barmal in the town of Sharongi, eye witnesses told that the coalition forces were coming from Barmal when a loud explosion illuminated the area, and suddenly the sound of rockets and gunfire was heard. The firing lasted for an hour and a half. Eye witnesses report thirteen afghan and coalition forces killed and many Taliban were also martyred. Seventeen Afghan civilians were killed by B-52 bombing runs in retaliatory aerial bombings.

Meanwhile, the cracks are widening and becoming move evident in the puppet regime of Karzai now that Professor Burhanudding Rabbani and the Governor of Herat Ismail Khan have decided to form an alliance against Hamid Karzai. (JUS)

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