http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/01/AR2010110100
293.html
Taliban briefly overrun east Afghanistan district
Afghan women and schoolgirls walk over a temporary bridge to cross a canal
in Jalalabad, the provincial capital of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul,
Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
Afghan women and schoolgirls walk over a temporary bridge to cross a canal
in Jalalabad, the provincial capital of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul,
Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) (Rahmat Gul - AP)
By RAHIM FAIEZ
The Associated Press
Monday, November 1, 2010; 7:36 AM
KABUL,
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/afghanistan.html?nav=e
l> Afghanistan -- The Taliban briefly overran a district seat in eastern
Afghanistan, torching government buildings and capturing police officers
after an intense gunfight, officials said Monday.
The government was back in control of Ghazni province's Khogyani district
headquarters a few hours later, said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri
Bashary, adding that three rooms in the government headquarters had been
burned and a vehicle damaged. He did not have any information on casualties.
Local police chief Mohammad Yasin, who wasn't there during the attacks, said
government buildings were captured and set on fire.
All the police guarding the district headquarters were either killed or
taken prisoner, Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said, and their weapons
and vehicles were confiscated.
He put out a press release later saying the Taliban had left the district
after damaging the headquarters.
A NATO spokesman said he did not have any details of the incident.
In recent months, Ghazni has become one of the most unstable provinces in
Afghanistan. Insecurity around the country shot up after NATO and Afghan
troops began pushing into the Taliban heartland of the south in July.
Parliamentary elections held in September did not take place in most of
Ghazni because of the insurgent threat.
Afghanistan has more than 350 districts. Around 10 are under direct Taliban
control but they have a presence in many more.
In an unrelated incident in southern Helmand province, NATO and Afghan
troops killed 15 insurgents in the course of a two-day battle over a
bomb-making factory in Reg-i-Khan Nishin district that ended Sunday, the
coalition said.
NATO troops eventually seized and destroyed a stockpile of explosives that
would have been enough to build more than 2,000 bombs, Monday's statement
said.
Also in Helmand, two Afghan women were found shot to death, said provincial
government spokesman Daud Ahmadi. They had been running a small organization
helping other women set up businesses before their bodies were found in
Naway-e-Barakzayi district.
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