AFGHANISTAN

The guerilla warfare is costing American and other Western troops their lives. It is the result of their miscalculations. The following articles should illustrate some of the ways of revenge the Afghans deal with their enemy. The first article is from frontier Post and the second and third are from Pakistan Tribune. My sources confirmed their accuracy.

Sincerely

Mohammed Daud Miraki, MA, MA, PhD
mdmiraki@ameritech.net

Five Americans Killed

DERA ISMAEL KHAN (NNI) -- Five Americans are feared dead when some remnants of al-Qaeda and Taliban prompted a sudden attack on an office of the US Federal Bureau of Intelligence at Barmil, Pak-Afghan border. The attackers used Rocket Launcher and automatic guns in the sudden attack prompted last night, a highly placed source from across the border revealed to NNI correspondent here Wednesday. The informer further said that the office of FBI was established close to Check-post at Pakistan-Afghanistan border and the attack was so sudden that the border security guards comprising US-led coalition troops and Afghan officials did not retaliate.

The border security guards inside Afghanistan noticed the attack from a mountain range some hundred meters away from the check-post. The political administration has put on high alert the paramilitary personnel and other administrative units in South Waziristan, a Pakistani tribal area adjacent to the Afghan borders where the incident took place. According to the information reached here from across the border, the FBI agents were there as part of their mission to assist the US-led coalition troops searching remnants of Al-Qaeda and Taliban in the area. These FBI agents were also cooperating with Pakistani law enforcing agencies in the bordering areas to Afghanistan as part of the latest campaign being launched after the arrest of number three in the hierarchy of al-Qaeda, Khalid Shaikh Mohammad [?] who was apprehended on March 1 in Rawalpindi and presently is in the custody of the American at an unknown place.

Meanwhile, Taliban fighters attacked a government checkpoint in northwestern Afghanistan, starting fighting that left at least 13 combatants dead, a military commander said Wednesday. About 400 gunmen attacked the checkpoint Tuesday in Tora Shaikh in the northwestern province of Badghis near the border with Turkmenistan, said Mohammad Karim Khadem, a brigade commander in the area. Seven attackers and six government soldiers were killed in fighting on Tuesday and Wednesday, Khadem said.


4 Allied Soldiers Killed In Taliban Rocket Attack
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SARAI NORANG (Online) -- Taliban forces have stepped up guerrilla warfare against coalition forces in Khost and killed 4 coalition soldiers and injured 6 in a rocket attack.

As per details, the Allied forces and the Afghan troops were on their routine patrolling duty in a pick up in surrounding area of Latkoo in Khost on the night between the Sunday and Monday.

The Taliban militants lobbed rockets targeting Allied forces. The rocket onslaught left 4 allied troops killed and 6 injured on the occasion. The injured were shifted to hospital immediately.

In another incident one allied soldier was injured grievously when Taliban militants fired rockets on a patrolling party jeep on its way to the airport. The other soldiers sitting in jeep were left unhurt as the rocket could not explode inside the vehicle.

In another offensive, the Taliban militants ambushed on the allied forces central camp at Yawar.

The Afghan troops were fast asleep while guarding the allied forces. The Taliban forces overpowered them and with their assistance they moved to the trenches of Allied forces.

Taliban guerrillas captured allied troops, slaughtered two of them and amputated their limbs. They took away three allied soldiers with them to some unknown destination.

The surprise rocket offensives from the Taliban forces have created panic among the allied forces and the latter have discontinued their night patrolling in the area for fear of enemy's strikes.

4 US Troops Among 5 Killed In Afghanistan
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MIRAN SHAH (Online) -- Unidentified persons Monday ambushed the vehicle of allied forces in Urgzan area of Paktia Province of Afghanistan that resulted in the killing of five persons including four American soldiers .

Local authorities said that vehicle of allied forces was came under rocket attack when it was coming back to base after conducting patrolling in New Mandi area resulting in the killing of four American soldiers and an Afghan .

Allied forces soon after the incident started the search of suspected attackers in the area, sources said .