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13 suspected Taliban killed in Afghanistan
(Afghanistan)
Updated: 2005-09-05 17:08
Thirteen suspected Taliban fighters have been killed in fighting with U.S.
and Afghan forces in a southern province, and more than 40 other suspected
militants were arrested, a senior Afghan official said Monday.
Some 200 Afghan police, supported by the U.S.-led coalition, fought the
militants in the mountains of Ghorak district in Kandahar province on Sunday
night, said Kandahar Gov. Asadullah Khalid.
"We have the dead bodies," Khalid said, adding that assault rifles and some
ammunition was confiscated from the fighters. He said 44 other suspects were
arrested and that the Afghan and coalition forces had suffered no casualties.
U.S. military spokesman Col. James Yonts on Monday confirmed that more than
40 suspected insurgents had been taken into custody, but gave no further details
about the military operation in Kandahar, which he said was
continuing.
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