17 Taliban killed

Friday December 07, 2007 (0850 PST)

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KABUL: The air strikes by NATO-led forces killed 17 Taliban fighters in western Afghanistan on Thursday, as another in a series of bomb blasts around Kabul damaged a German aid agency vehicle, police said.

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) launched the air raids after troops came under fire in the Farah province, regional Afghan army commander General Jalandar Shah Behnam told AFP.

The joint forces repelled the attack. ISAF aerial bombing killed lots of militants. So far the figure we have is 17 militants were killed, including their local commander,î he said. In another incident on Thursday, a roadside bomb struck the vehicle of a German government aid agency — GTZ, on the outskirts of Kabul but caused no casualties, a district police chief, Abdul Fahim Yahyaee said.

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