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| | Posted by admin on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 02:56 PM |
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|  | US-led coalition forces say they have killed 32 "enemy fighters",
assumed to be the Taleban and their allies in clashes in southern
Helmand province.
One US and one Canadian soldier were killed, the US says after a coalition base came under attack.
Five other soldiers, including one American and three Canadians, were wounded in Wednesday's fighting.
The Taleban are reported as saying that they have begun a new spring offensive against foreign and government forces.
Helmand province has been at the centre of a recent upsurge in fighting.
Compound 'overrun'
The US military said on Wednesday that coalition
forces had "defeated a large enemy element that was attempting to
retreat into sanctuaries".
It said 12 militants were killed earlier in the day and another 20 in subsequent fighting.
A US military statement said: "Coalition forces also
discovered large caches of munitions as they overran the Taleban
compound and the enemy fled. Coalition forces destroyed the munitions."
"With our coalition partners and the government of
Afghanistan we are committed to continuing offensive operations against
the Taleban and other terrorists that are attempting to disrupt the
considerable progress of reconstruction and governance in Afghanistan,"
Brig Gen Anthony Tata said.
There has been an upsurge of violence in Helmand
The Reuters news agency quoted a man who identified
himself as a Taleban spokesman saying they had begun a spring offensive
against foreign forces.
"The weather is warming and Taleban attacks on coalition
and Afghan forces have begun," a man who called himself Mullah Mohammad
Hanif said by telephone from an undisclosed location.
Over 220 US military personnel have been killed in
Afghanistan there since the ousting of the Taleban in 2001, according
to reports.
More than 3,000 British troops are to be deployed in the province in the coming months.
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