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– 10 AFGHAN POLICEMEN KILLED IN LASHKAR-GAH

Published July 31, 2011

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Ten Afghan policemen and a child have been killed, on Sunday 07/31/2011, in a suicide attack in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah, South Afghanistan, officials said. The attacker targeted the gate of the police headquarters in the city, the capital of Helmand province. The Taliban said it had carried out the attack, which also wounded 12 people.

 

Responsibility for Lashkar Gah was recently handed to Afghan forces as part of a plan to return all security to local forces by the end of 2014 (see – Obama’s Withdrawal). The attack reportedly targeted a joint Afghan police and army patrol at the compound.

 

Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi told Agence France-Presse news agency the group had carried out the attack. Helmand remains a flashpoint of the Taliban insurgency and has cost the lives of more foreign troops than any other province (see – Taliban’s Spring-Offensive).

Lashkar Gah is one of seven initial areas for which security has been handed to Afghan forces as part of the gradual transition of control from NATO-ISAF (see – Petraeus W Plan).

 

A day earlier Afghan intelligence sources revealed that an Afghan army officer, Gul Mohammed, has been arrested on suspicion of working for the Taliban and plotting suicide attacks. The officer had confessed that he was working with Taliban commanders, they said (see also -Kandahar-Escape). 
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