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Taliban Commander, Advisers Killed in NATO Air Strike in Afghanistan

   VOA News 26 April 2010
   Afghan  security  forces mans on the scene as trucks carrying supplies
   to  coalition forces burn after hundreds of people blocked a main road
   and set them on fire to protest what they said were civilian deaths in
   NATO operations in Logar province, west of Ka

Photo: AP

   Afghan  security  forces mans on the scene as trucks carrying supplies
   to  coalition forces burn after hundreds of people blocked a main road
   and set them on fire to protest what they said were civilian deaths in
   NATO  operations  in  Logar  province,  west of Kabul, Afghanistan, 25
   April 2010

   NATO  says  a  senior  Taliban  commander and two advisers in northern
   Afghanistan were killed in an air strike Monday.
   The  insurgents  were  driving  through the desert northeast of Kunduz
   City when they were hit by precision air fire.
   NATO  says  the  Taliban  commander was responsible for all aspects of
   military operations in Kunduz province.
   In  southern Afghanistan, police say two civilians have been killed by
   two explosions that went off within a minute of each other as a police
   convoy passed by.
   Kandahar's deputy provincial police chief Fazel Ahmad Sherzad said his
   car  was  the target of Monday's blasts, but he was not in the vehicle
   at  the  time. He said the blasts were caused by a roadside bomb and a
   motorbike packed with explosives.
   Kandahar  is  the  largest  city  in  southern  Afghanistan,  and is a
   militant stronghold.
   A  U.S.-led  operation  planned  for  later  this  year  aims to clear
   Kandahar of Taliban fighters.
   U.S.  President  Barack  Obama  has  ordered  30,000  more troops into
   Afghanistan,  in part to back up the Kandahar offensive. The operation
   will be a critical test of the Obama administration's Afghan strategy.

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