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TALIBAN militants shot dead a teenage boy in southeastern Afghanistan for
teaching English to his classmates, police said.
Taliban militants have killed a number of teachers and students in recent
years for attending government-run schools, taking part in classes for girls
or what the hardline Islamist militants consider un-Islamic subjects.
Armed men arrived at the school in the Sayed Karam district of Paktia
province and grabbed a 16-year-old student and dragged him outside.
"Taliban militants took the boy out and killed him outside the school just
because he was teaching English to his classmates," said General Esmatullah
Alizai, the police chief of Paktia province.
Police arrived on the scene and in the ensuing gun battle, two policemen and
two militants were killed, he said.
A Taliban spokesman denied the group was involved in the killing.
The militants often deny carrying out unpopular actions.
The Taliban are divided into a number of factions with no unified command
and individual units act with a high degree of autonomy.
Afghanistan has suffered from two years of steadily rising violence as the
Taliban have reignited their campaign to overthrow the pro-Western Afghan
government and eject foreign troops.
Taliban insurgents suffer heavy casualties whenever they engage with foreign
troops, but there are few signs they are suffering from a shortage of
recruits.
Both the number of clashes and their geographical range has gone up this
year.
Helmand fighting
US-led coalition forces killed several militants in clashes in southern
Afghanistan, the US military said today, and an explosion killed a British
soldier in the troubled region.
The latest clashes came in the Garmser district of Helmand province, where
mostly British and US troops are battling to extend Afghan government
authority to a string of towns along the fertile Helmand River that cuts
through the barren desert.
"During a search of compounds in the district, coalition forces encountered
armed militants in multiple buildings on the compounds," the US military
said.
"Coalition forces responded with a combination of small-arms fire; accurate,
conventional munitions and precision-guided munitions killing several
militants during the engagement."
Precision munitions normally refer to weapons launched in air strikes, but
can be ground-launched weaponry.
"Precision munitions were also used to kill several other militants who were
attempting to use a tree line outside one of the compounds as cover to
engage Coalition forces," it said.
There was no immediate comment from the Taliban.
In a separate incident, a British soldier was killed in an explosion in the
Sangin district, further north in Helmand province yesterday, the British
Defence Ministry said.
More than 7000 people have been killed in that period, the bloodiest since
Afghan and US-led forces toppled the Taliban for refusing to give up
al-Qaeda leaders in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US.
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TALIBAN militants shot dead a teenage boy in southeastern Afghanistan for
teaching English to his classmates, police said.
Taliban militants have killed a number of teachers and students in recent
years for attending government-run schools, taking part in classes for girls
or what the hardline Islamist militants consider un-Islamic subjects.
Armed men arrived at the school in the Sayed Karam district of Paktia
province and grabbed a 16-year-old student and dragged him outside.
"Taliban militants took the boy out and killed him outside the school just
because he was teaching English to his classmates," said General Esmatullah
Alizai, the police chief of Paktia province.
Police arrived on the scene and in the ensuing gun battle, two policemen and
two militants were killed, he said.
A Taliban spokesman denied the group was involved in the killing.
The militants often deny carrying out unpopular actions.
The Taliban are divided into a number of factions with no unified command
and individual units act with a high degree of autonomy.
Afghanistan has suffered from two years of steadily rising violence as the
Taliban have reignited their campaign to overthrow the pro-Western Afghan
government and eject foreign troops.
Taliban insurgents suffer heavy casualties whenever they engage with foreign
troops, but there are few signs they are suffering from a shortage of
recruits.
Both the number of clashes and their geographical range has gone up this
year.
Helmand fighting
US-led coalition forces killed several militants in clashes in southern
Afghanistan, the US military said today, and an explosion killed a British
soldier in the troubled region.
The latest clashes came in the Garmser district of Helmand province, where
mostly British and US troops are battling to extend Afghan government
authority to a string of towns along the fertile Helmand River that cuts
through the barren desert.
"During a search of compounds in the district, coalition forces encountered
armed militants in multiple buildings on the compounds," the US military
said.
"Coalition forces responded with a combination of small-arms fire; accurate,
conventional munitions and precision-guided munitions killing several
militants during the engagement."
Precision munitions normally refer to weapons launched in air strikes, but
can be ground-launched weaponry.
"Precision munitions were also used to kill several other militants who were
attempting to use a tree line outside one of the compounds as cover to
engage Coalition forces," it said.
There was no immediate comment from the Taliban.
In a separate incident, a British soldier was killed in an explosion in the
Sangin district, further north in Helmand province yesterday, the British
Defence Ministry said.
More than 7000 people have been killed in that period, the bloodiest since
Afghan and US-led forces toppled the Taliban for refusing to give up
al-Qaeda leaders in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US.
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Quote Of The Week
"The Clintons Are A Terminally Unethical And Vulgar Couple, And They?ve
Betrayed Everyone Who Has Ever Believed In Them." - Bob Herbert, Columnist
NY Times Clinton
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