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15
NATO troops killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, October 23.—An insurgency
attack on a military convoy in Zabul, southern
Afghanistan, left 15 dead and two wounded, according
to NATO.
The attack came after Talibans
prepared an ambush for a column of NATO troops
deployed there to control the prevailing insurgency
in that part of the country, PL reports.
The provinces of Helmand,
Kandahar, Uruzgan, Day Kundo, Nimroz and Zabul are
areas of constant violence and Operation Medusa,
initiated last July, has been unable to deal with
insurgency attacks in those regions.
Last Sunday, at the end of the
month of Ramadan, the Muslim leader Mullah Omar
demanded the withdrawal of NATO while announcing
that actions against foreign and Afghan troops are
to be stepped up.
Peter Inge, former UK chief of general staff, warned
this week of the possibility of a military failure
in Afghanistan and described the occupation as
suffering from a evident lack of strategy.
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