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Taliban Militants Kill Five Afghans By NOOR KHAN The Associated Press Wednesday, May 18, 2005; 10:00 AM KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Suspected Taliban militants Wednesday ambushed and killed five Afghans working on a U.S.-funded project to end opium farming in the south of the country, officials said. The workers were attacked as they drove through Helmand province, about 110 miles northwest of the southern city of Kandahar, said senior provincial official Ghulam Muhiddin. Two of the victims were engineers working for Chemonics, a U.S.-based company; one was a government engineer; the other two were a driver and a policeman employed as a security guard, he said. "Police are investigating the killings and are searching for the Taliban attackers," Muhiddin said. Carol Yee, a senior Chemonics worker in the area, confirmed the killings. She said the men were working on a project to provide alternative livelihoods to farmers growing opium, the raw material for heroin. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent in Afghanistan by various organizations to persuade farmers to grow legal crops. Afghanistan last year produced nearly 90 percent of the world's opium, sparking warnings that it is fast becoming a dangerous "narco-state" less than four years after the end of its role as a haven for al-Qaida. Taliban-led militants have stepped up attacks on military and civilian targets in recent months in a campaign of violence that is impeding aid to the impoverished south and east of the country. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EHLuJD/.WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- 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: osint@yahoogroups.com 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.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> 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/
