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Forces in Afghanistan Kill 2 Senior Taliban

   VOA News 10 October 2010

   Coalition  forces  in  Afghanistan  say  they  have killed two Taliban
   leaders in recent operations in Helmand and Badghis provinces.

   Map of Helmand province, Afghanistan

   NATO  says  Mullah  Jamaluddin  was  killed  in a joint operation with
   Afghan  forces  on Saturday. It says he was believed to be a candidate
   to  become  the Taliban's "shadow governor" in Badghis province, after
   Afghan  and  coalition forces killed the Taliban's previous provincial
   chief on Wednesday.

   The  coalition  says  Afghan  and  international  forces also killed a
   senior Taliban member, Ajmal Agha Jan, in a raid in Helmand overnight.
   NATO  says  he was responsible for making and placing bombs throughout
   the province.

   NATO  says  a  bomb attack Sunday killed two of its service members in
   southern Afghanistan.

   Also  Sunday, the Afghan council tasked with starting peace talks with
   insurgent groups chose a former president as its chairman.

   Burhanuddin  Rabbani  served  as Afghan president during the 1990s and
   was  a  mujahideen  faction  leader  during  the  Soviet occupation of
   Afghanistan in the 1980s.

   The peace council had its first meeting on Thursday.

   In  June,  delegates at a peace conference in Kabul endorsed President
   Hamid Karzai's plans for peace talks with the Taliban in an attempt to
   end nine years of war.

   The  Taliban  has  said  it  will  not engage in peace talks until all
   foreign troops leave Afghanistan.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP.

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