Taleban clash 'leaves many dead'
Nearly 20 combatants have been killed in a battle between Afghan troops and Taleban fighters in the southern province of Helmand, officials say.
Helmand's deputy governor told the BBC that at one point, he and 100 soldiers were surrounded by 200 Taleban...
The Deputy Governor, Haji Mullah Mir, said that he and the surrounded troops only managed to break through the Taleban after 200 more soldiers arrived to help them.
He said the fighting started after a local police commander travelled to Helmand's Sangeen district in pursuit of Taleban forces from the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, at about 0700 local time.
A US military spokesman in Kabul said US aircraft, including A-10 attack planes, had also joined in the fighting, the Associated Press (AP) news agency reports...
Endless War- mission accomplished for Halliburton, Lockheed-Martin, Northrop-Grummon, Computer Sciences Corporation, and the rest of the Carlyle Group... and the Al Qaeda faction of the Saudi Royal House, of course.
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