Monday, September 21, 2009 KABUL: Two tanks were destroyed and 16 allies and Afghan forces troops were killed in an attack on their convoy in Afghanistan.Hizb-e-Islami spokesman claimed that their fighters have blown up two tanks of the allied forces by a remote control device at Khawaskhelo area of Lugar province. Hizb-e-Islami claimed that eight allied forces troops were also killed in the tanks blow up. Besides four more allied forces troops were killed in another incident of remote control blast blowing up a tank at Galawat area of Laghman province.On the other hand, Hizb-e-Islami spokesman has accepted the responsibility of attack on the joint convoy of allied forces and Afghan army, resulting in the death of two allied forces troops and to Afghan soldiers. Hizb-e-Islami spokesman has confirmed one of their fighters receiving injury.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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