Fifteen Taliban and four policemen were killed in a series of clashes in Ghazni, Paktika, Uruzgan, and Kandahar provinces. Two Taliban suicide bombers were killed when their vest exploded prematurely. The Czechs plan to send 200 addition troops in 2009.
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