20 Evil Muslim Insurgents Killed in Afghan Violence

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20 Insurgents Killed in Afghan Violence

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

KABUL, Afghanistan - Two NATO soldiers were killed while on patrol in

restive southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, while more than 20 suspected

insurgents were reported to have died in coalition airstrikes and ground

battles, authorities said.

The fighting on Tuesday and Wednesday came after Afghan forces claimed to

have killed a Taliban commander involved in the kidnapping of 23 South

Korean church workers in central Afghanistan in July.

Taliban-led militants are waging a bloody resistance campaign against the

Western-supported government of President Hamid Karzai, which replaced the

hard-line Islamic militia after the U.S. invasion in 2001.

The two dead soldiers were from NATO's International Security Assistance

Force, the alliance said in a statement. It said another ISAF solider and an

interpreter were injured, but gave no more details, including the soldiers'

nationalities.

Afghan and coalition soldiers in Shah Wali Kot district, in southern

Kandahar province, came under attack while on patrol Tuesday. They fought

back before calling in air support, a coalition statement said.

"Surgical and precision airstrikes were carried out on positively identified

enemy positions from where machine gun and rocket-propelled grenade fire was

originating," the statement said. "Over a dozen insurgents were killed in

this engagement."

About 18 miles away, insurgents sheltering in a traditional low-walled

Afghan compound attacked another joint patrol on Tuesday. Airstrikes later

pounded the position, killing six insurgents, the statement said.

In Ghazni province, insurgents early Wednesday attacked a joint coalition

and Afghan force, triggering a clash that left "several militants" dead, a

coalition statement said. A number of civilians were injured in the clash,

the coalition said.

In the southern Helmand province, a remotely controlled bomb exploded under

a police vehicle in Gereshk district Wednesday, killing two police and

wounding three, said Abdul Manan, a local official.

On Tuesday, Afghan officials claimed to have killed a Taliban commander

called Mullah Mateen, who they said was involved the kidnapping of the South

Koreans on July 19. The Taliban denied the claim.

Two of the South Koreans were killed soon after the kidnapping, two were

released in August, while the remaining 19 were freed last week after Seoul

repeated a long-standing commitment to withdraw its 200 troops by year's

end, and prevent Christian missionaries from traveling to Afghanistan.

Afghan authorities often make claims they have killed Taliban commanders

that turn out to be false. Taliban spokesmen have also downplayed or lied

about the extent of their battlefield losses.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the

Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street

Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.

He says, "That the American people and their elected representatives

continue to tolerate a war that has killed and maimed thousands of

their own soldiers, destroyed the infrastructure of a country, killed

hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians and created 4 million

refugees for no known reason raises serious questions about the morals

of the American people.

"Is the impotence of the peace movement due to the power of the

Israel Lobby or have Americans become morally degenerate as

commentators increasingly assert? "One indication would be the

response of presidential candidates to the gratuitous and failed war.

What we saw at the Republican presidential candidates' debate on June

5 is inconsistent with the self-esteem of the American people. All of

the leading Republican presidential candidates openly and nonchalantly

endorsed using nuclear weapons against Iran unless Iran abandons its

right to enrich uranium under the non-proliferation treaty, to which

Iran is a signatory (unlike nuclear-armed Israel, India, and US puppet

Pakistan).

"What is moral degeneracy if it is not using nuclear weapons to murder

masses of innocent civilians and spread deadly radioactivity over

vast areas merely in order to force a country to do as we order? If

this isn't barbarism, what is barbarism?

"Do the American people realize that the frontrunners for the

Republican presidential nomination are monsters who want to murder

people who have done us no harm?

"Is the approval lavished on Republican presidential candidates, who

are willing to use nuclear weapons as means of terrorizing Muslim

peoples, an indication that the American people have morphed into

inhuman monsters?

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