RC N Watch: Distriktchef von Ali Abad entgeht Anschlag

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1. Leicht OT aber passend zu RC N Watch:

   Das Wall Street Journal hat etwas Hintergrund zu dem Anschlag auf die BW nahe Pol-e-Khumri am 8.10. und den Aussenposten bei Shahabuddin. Es gibt u.a. widersprüchliche Angaben wie innerhalb der Aktion ein zur Regierung übergelaufener „Taliban“-führer um kam: Afghans See Peril in Switching Sides

   U.S. and German forces tried to relieve the besieged outpost, but „progress stalled while the combined force waited for a bridge that insurgents destroyed to be repaired,“ a coalition official said. At that crossing, the allied troops, too, came under fire from Taliban small arms, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. It would be two days until they managed to enter the village. Commander Sher’s men were on their own.

   „We asked Commander Sher to surrender, but he refused,“ says a local Taliban commander, Agha Saib.

   Finally, U.S. aircraft appeared over the village and the militia’s base. Mr. Mohammad, the cousin of the commander, says the remaining militiamen, who had by then abandoned the outpost and gathered in a compound nearby, were asked by the coalition to indicate their location with a red cloth. Mr. Mohammad and Commander Sher spread a red quilt on their compound’s roof.

   The first two bombs hit the Taliban-held outpost and a nearby house that had been overrun by the Taliban. The third one, Mr. Mohammad and Afghan officials say, demolished Commander Sher’s compound, killing him and two other militiamen, and injuring seven others.
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