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May 28, 2011 Karzai Calls for Afghans to Take Over Night Raids, 7 Dead in Suicidal Blast VoA News: Afghanistan's president has called for NATO forces to stop conducting "special operations and night raids." In a statement Saturday, Hamid Karzai said Afghan forces should conduct these missions itself. Mr. Karzai has criticized NATO's nighttime raids, which are unpopular among Afghans, and are blamed by many Afghans for causing civilian deaths. But NATO defended the raids Saturday, saying they are necessary to gain ground against the leaders of the Taliban insurgency. The statement said NATO would work with Afghan forces to eventually transition the raids from NATO-led with Afghan participation, to Afghan-led. Meanwhile, a suicide bomber struck a governor's compound in northern Afghanistan. A VOA reporter said the blast occured Saturday morning at the Takhar province governor's house. Details are still emerging but casualties have been reported. A suicide bomber has struck a governor's compound in northern Afghanistan, killing at least seven. The spokesperson for Takhar province told VOA nine people were also wounded in the explosion in Takhar province's Taloqan city Saturday morning, including the governor. The spokesperson said General Dawood Dawood, the police commander in northern Afghanistan, is among the dead. He said a provincial police chief was among those killed. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
