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Suicide Bombers Hit Afghan Police HQ, Kill Six Thursday, April 07, 2011 By Mirwais Khan, Associated Press Kandahar, Afghanistan (AP) - Insurgent suicide bombers and gunmen stormed an Afghan police compound Thursday, setting off explosions and firing assault rifles in a coordinated attack that killed six members of the Afghan security forces. American Black Hawk helicopters and at least eight U.S. armored vehicles rushed to support dozens of Afghan troops battling the assailants at the three-building police complex in restive Kandahar province. It was unclear how many insurgents were involved in the attack. Fighting in Afghanistan has intensified recently, with insurgents coming from neighboring Pakistan as the annual spring fighting season gets under way. Thursday's attack began when four suicide bombers stormed police complex, said Zulmi Ayubi, a spokesman for the provincial governor. Three of the bombers blew themselves up, Ayubi said, while the fourth man exchanged fire with Afghan troops. "I heard a blast and after that continuous fighting with rocket launchers," said Kandahar provincial policeman Ashrafullah Agha. After a third large explosion, Agha cut off the interview. Four intelligence officers were killed in the fighting, along with an Afghan soldier and a police officer, said provincial police chief Khan Mohammad Mujahid. He said 12 police were wounded. The police complex sits near the main highway between Kandahar and the capital of Kabul, 148 miles to the north. A weapons training school and police literacy center are located inside the complex. Kandahar is a Taliban stronghold that has seen some of the most intense fighting of the war. Also on Thursday, NATO announced that it had concluded what it described as a "significant operation" in mountainous eastern Kunar province near the border with Pakistan. More than 80 insurgents were killed after joint Afghan and coalition forces cleared militants out of four villages, NATO said. "The combined security force moved into the mountainous area near the Pakistan border in order to disrupt insurgent activities in the region," NATO said in a statement. "Insurgents had been using the area to move supplies and men into Kunar province and to stage attacks on Afghan and coalition forces." Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense said late Wednesday that more than 130 insurgents were killed in the area over the past two weeks. Few details have been released, but at least six U.S. soldiers were killed in the area last week. [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/
