A U.S. soldier keeps watch at the site where Taliban militants set fire to a convoy of supply trucks in Ghazni, southeast of Afghanistan June 24, 2008. Taliban insurgents fired rockets and set on fire some 40 trucks on the main highway southeast of the capital Kabul police official saidFrom Yahoo News:
KABUL, Afghanistan - Coalition warplanes swooped down on militants withdrawing from a firefight with police into the mountains of eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing 15 of them, officials said.
Ismatullah Alizai, the police chief of Paktia province, said no one was hurt in the initial battle at the government headquarters in the town of Sayid Karam.
First Lt. Nathan Perry, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, said an unmanned drone identified the retreating gunmen and "close air support was used to engage and kill" them.
Alizai said 15 militants were killed. All the bodies as well as four wounded fighters were at a local hospital, he said.
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News On Afghanistan From Other Sources:
Suicide blast kills 4 civilians in W Afghanistan -- China View
US military deaths in Afghanistan region at 451 -- Yahoo News
NATO troops more powerful and popular than Taliban -- Canada.com
Officials: Coalition jets kill 15 Afghan militants -- MSNBC
55 militants killed in battle in east Afghanistan -- Newsweek
Afghan Army Acts: Decisive, Overwhelming -- North Shore Journal
Pentagon Despair Over NATO and Afghanistan -- Captain's Journal
Kabul parades ‘Pakistani bombers’ -- Daily Times
12 Pakistanis deported from Afghanistan -- Daily Times
Taliban makes £50m from Afghanistan opium trade -- Telegraph
My Comment: The war goes on ....
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