From: EurasiaDigest (digest@eurasianet.org)
Date: Tue Feb 21 2006 - 09:59:41 EST
NEO-TALIBAN CLAIMS KILLING OF FOUR AFGHAN POLICEMEN
A man claiming to speak for the neo-Taliban, Qari Mohammad Yusof, said on 19 February that neo-Taliban militia attacked a security post in the Marja area of the southern province of Helmand on 19 February, killing four policemen, the Peshawar-based news agency Afghan Islamic Press reported. An unnamed Afghan police official confirmed to Pajhwak Afghan News on 19 February that three policemen were killed in an attack in Marja by unidentified assailants, who then fled the scene. AT
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