Police killed eight protesters, who are said to have been infiltrated by “militants,” at an anti-Pakistani demonstration. Militants killed three truck drivers during the protest. The Taliban killed five Afghan soldiers and a policeman in Farah, and three civilians in an IED attack in Helmand.
Raids against the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan continue at an unprecedented pace. There have been five raids against the group in Afghanistan so far this month and 26 this year.
The Taliban killed a police officer and wounded three more in an IED attack in Kunduz. President Karzai said the international community has failed to secure Afghanistan. Unemployment in Afghanistan rose by 500,000 over the past year.
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ISAF killed a wanted Saudi terrorist and an Afghan commander in Nuristan last week; both men have been linked to “Arab” elements of the insurgency. The Taliban killed four civilians in an IED attack in Farah.
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One of those killed, Saleh Abd al Aziz Hamad al Luhayb, was wanted by Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of the Interior. The International Security Assistance Force will not describe him and others with links to “Arabs” as al Qaeda.
An Afghan soldier killed two ISAF troops in the west. The Taliban killed five ISAF soldiers in Kandahar and another ISAF soldier in the north, and captured seven Afghan Local Policemen in Faryab.
The two ISAF soldiers were killed in western Afghanistan. So far this year, there have been six such attacks, which account for 13 percent of ISAF’s deaths.
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Efforts to garner mainstream religious consensus in Afghanistan and Pakistan condemning the use of suicide attacks and other forms of violence against civilians seem doomed to fail.
“We dedicate all our activities for the next decade to Sheikh Osama bin Laden,” Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said in a video praising the slain al Qaeda leader.
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The Taliban assassinated a member of the High Peace Council in Helmand and captured 28 policemen in Faryab. Security forces killed six Taliban fighters in Ghazni. Pakistani and Afghan troops clashed in Nangarhar.
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The Taliban have now assassinated three senior members of the peace council since the end of the summer of 2011. The attack was likely executed by the Mullah Dadullah Front.
The Taliban killed three ISAF soldiers and nine Afghan civilians in bombings in the south and north, and freed 10 Afghan soldiers who were captured in Badakhshan. Video of yesterday’s plane crash at Bagram has emerged on the Internet.
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Raids against the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in the Afghan north continue; one commander was killed and another captured during recent operations.
A civilian cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff at Bagram Field, killing all seven people on board. Joint security forces arrested a Haqqani Network leader in Khost, a Taliban leader and Taliban facilitator in Kandahar, and confirmed the death of an Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leader in Baghlan on April 9.