The Taliban Are Now Targetting Afghan And Coalition Supply Lines

US soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) patrol Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has welcomed a new US "war on terror" focus on Pakistan's border areas as further deadly violence underscored rampant militancy seven years after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. (AFP/File/Mohammad Yaqubi)

20 Militants, 5 Guards Die In Afghanistan Clashes
-- Yahoo News/AP

KABUL, Afghanistan - Taliban militants attacked a logistics convoy in western Afghanistan on Friday, sparking a clash that killed 10 insurgents and five Afghan guards, an official said. Another 10 militants were killed by U.S.-led coalition troops north of Kabul.

The militants attacked the convoy in the western Farah province, said Farah's Gov. Roohulla Amin. In the ensuing gunfight with the guards protecting the trucks, 10 militants and five Afghan private security guards were killed, Amin said.

Three other guards were missing following the clash, believed captured by the Taliban, he said.

Separately, U.S.-led coalition troops killed more than 10 militants and detained two others during two separate raids, the coalition said in a statement.

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My Comment: This is a change of tactics by the Taliban. This also indicates a more sophisticated command and control center for the Taliban, as well as having strategists planning on how best to defeat the coalition and afghan armies.

The Taliban are no longer a disorganized mob.