So isn’t this a winner: 80 Taliban reported killed in U.S.-led battle
I am confused isn’t this a top story and constitute a winning strategy?
Updated: 11:47 p.m. CT Oct 27, 2007
KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S.-led coalition forces killed about 80 Taliban fighters during a six-hour battle outside a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan, the latest in a series of increasingly bloody engagements in the region, officials said Sunday.The battle near Musa Qala in Helmand province — the world’s largest poppy growing region — is at least the fifth major fight in the area since Sept. 1. The five battles that have killed more than 250 Taliban fighters, a possible sign that U.S. or British forces could be trying to wrest the area back from Taliban militants.
The latest fight began Saturday when Taliban fighters attacked a combined U.S. coalition and Afghan patrol with rockets and gunfire, prompting the combined force to call in attack aircraft, which resulted in “almost seven dozen Taliban fighters killed,” the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement early Sunday.
This should be one of those stories we hear about all day long.
