A member of the Afghan Special Forces drives a humvee during a combat mission against Taliban, in Kandahar province
Reuters: Afghan special forces moved in on Taliban, only to find they had melted away
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Soldiers from Afghanistan's special forces paused for a short prayer late on Sunday night on a deserted stretch of highway in the southern province of Kandahar. They do so each time they prepare to face Taliban militants in battle.
The highly trained troops had been called in to flush out insurgents who attacked regular forces and local police hours earlier, only to find that the Taliban had disappeared into the darkness leaving behind a few civilians and wounded soldiers.
"We received a report that the enemy had infiltrated here and wanted to overthrow the district," Major Mohammad din Tasir, a member of the special forces unit deployed in the Taliban's former stronghold of Kandahar, told Reuters after the operation.
The report had suggested up to 300 Taliban fighters were present in the area, he said. "Unfortunately, what we heard in the report and what we saw on the scene did not match."
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WNU Editor: The Taliban are masters at picking the battles that they want to fight. They are not going to fight a force of a few hundred battle hardened Afghan commandos.
Case in point.
In the past 20 years the U.S. did not lose any major battle against the Taliban. They won every fight. But here we are seeing US forces departing a war that many are acknowledging they have lost.
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