From: EurasiaDigest (digest@eurasianet.org)
Date: Wed May 07 2008 - 14:06:03 EDT
U.S. TROOPS KILL SEVERAL MILITANTS IN EASTERN AFGHANISTAN
U.S.-led coalition troops killed several insurgents during a raid in
Nangahar Province on May 5, AP reported. The troops also detained a
militant suspected of helping foreign fighters and conducting bomb
attacks in the region, according to a military statement. The coalition
did not state the exact numbers of militants killed. In Kandahar on May
6, three police officers and two civilian women were wounded when a bomb
attached to a bicycle exploded near the officers' car, provincial police
official Mohammad Shoaib told AP. According to the news agency's count,
more than 1,200 people -- mostly militants -- have died in
insurgency-related violence in Afghanistan this year. AT
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