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Afghan Citizens Drive Taliban from Village. |
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Written by Bagram Media Center
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
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Koshtowz, Kamdesh District, Nuristan Province: Tired of being
threatened and controlled by the Taliban, local villagers and farmers
banded together and drove a Taliban Cell from their midst. The Taliban
tactics of emplacing IEDs that threaten the innocent, sending suicide
bombers into crowded markets, attacking construction crews building
roads and other projects, burning schools and threatening parents who
send their children to school have pushed villagers in Nuristan
province to their limits. A Coalition Observation Post observed small
arms fire from the village of Koshtow, when Coalition Forces arrived to
investigate the Taliban were gone. One villager was wounded in the
exchange, Coalition Forces transported him via helicopter to a
Coalition Hospital. The young man had a broken arm and will return home
today.
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