Taliban fighters seize district in east Afghanistan

[Spring Onion]

Taliban fighters seize district in east Afghanistan
KUNAR
Sat May 29, 2010 4:37am EDT

KUNAR Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents overran a remote district in eastern Afghanistan after days of heavy fighting in the area, a provincial police official said on Saturday.


The battle erupted earlier this week in Barg-i-Matal district of mountainous Nuristan province, a remote area bordering Pakistan, when hundreds of Taliban fighters stormed the district center, said Qasim Payman, police chief of the province.

"The police force in the area has tactically retreated from the district after days of fighting," he told Reuters, adding there were no signs of reinforcements despite repeated requests.

Hundreds of armed villagers, known as Lashkar-i-Qaomi (the army of tribes) have joined with police to try to push back the insurgents, Payman said.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said insurgents inflicted heavy casualties on Afghan police and villagers fighting them.

In October 2009, Taliban insurgents killed eight American soldiers after storming their remote outposts in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan province.

U.S. forces announced plans to withdraw from the area as part commander General Stanley McChrystal's strategy to focus his forces on population centres.

Since the withdrawal of foreign troops from Kamdesh and Barg-i-Matal districts, Afghan police say the area is under immense threat from insurgents infiltrating from Pakistan.
Taliban fighters seize district in east Afghanistan | Reuters

 

[Kompromat]

Does it mean that they Kicked out Coalition forces ?

 

[forcetrip]

Great going.. Next stop Washington D.C ..

 

[Spring Onion]

Does it mean that they Kicked out Coalition forces ?

Coalition forces are not fighting against them in troubled areas rather Afghan forces have been made scapegoats

 

[Kompromat]

Coalition forces are not fighting against them in troubled areas rather Afghan forces have been made scapegoats

I believe the Afghan forces must have teamed up with taliban

 

[Ahmad]

Does it mean that they Kicked out Coalition forces ?

Dont be that much happy for these events just because it happend in Afghanistan. If they gain power in Afghanistna their ideology will deeply and negatively affect paikistan too as it is already happening in pakistan, but it will grow to an unstopable phenomenon, we are all in it together, the sooner you know this the better.