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kilo009 escribió:Según Gabrie (por cierto, a ver si nos aparece por aquí ), el ataque es a la 1ª CIA-VII Bandera de La Legion

Una patrulla española desplegada en Afganistán fue atacada a primera hora de la tarde de hoy a 30 kilometros de la base española en Quala I Naw. Los efectivos españoles respondieron también con disparos, aunque no se han registrado heridos ni daños materiales, informó el Ministerio de Defensa.

El ataque se registró a primera hora de la tarde a 30 kilómetros de la base española instalada en Quala I Naw mientras la patrulla española realizaba tareas de apoyo al Ejército y a la Policía de Afganistán.

Un grupo de desconocidos disparó contra la patrulla y ésta respondió de la misma forma.

Se ordenó entonces enviar aviones de la Fuerza Internacional de Apoyo a la Seguridad (ISAF) sin armamento para disuadir el ataque. Acto seguido, los atacantes se dieron a la fuga en motocicleta y la patrulla regresó a la base española.

La operación se saldó sin heridos ni daños materiales.

Tras largos años de control por parte del señor de la guerra Ismael Khan, actual ministro de Agua y Energía, los tayikos han perdido el poder a manos de los azaras, liderados por el gobernador, Hussein Anwari. El grupo, de confesión chií a diferencia de pastunes y tayikos que son suníes, se está haciendo cada vez más importante en la zona debido, según analistas locales, «al apoyo de Irán, que con el objetivo de crear un cinturón chií en su frontera les está apoyando financieramente». La tranquila zona de Herat se ha complicado.

Army has killed 7,000 Taliban

BRITISH troops are to scale back attacks on the Taliban after killing 7,000 insurgents in two years of conflict, defence sources said last week.

British paratroopers have returned to southern Afghanistan in increased numbers this month. For the first time, members from every battalion of the regiment will be fighting together on one battlefront.

The paratroopers of 16 Air Assault Brigade killed at least 1,000 Taliban during their first deployment to Helmand province in 2006. Since then another 6,000 Taliban insurgents have been killed by British troops, the sources said.

The paratroopers’ commanders hope they can cut the deaths, which they fear are a boost for the Taliban when fighters recruited from the local population are killed, as the dead insurgent’s family then feels a debt of honour to take up arms against British soldiers.

The resultant fighting raises the profile of the Taliban and enhances their reputation in the local community.

“We aim to scale back our response to incidents to avoid getting sucked into a cycle of violence among local tribesmen,” said one officer. “This way we aim to continue the process of reducing the Taliban’s influence in Helmand.”

The army hopes that the reduction in violence will enable the Department for International Development and its American counterpart USAID to accelerate reconstruction work. British commanders have expressed frustration at the limited amount of development and the reluctance of DfID to become involved.

However, US marines and British special forces will continue attacks on high-level Taliban leaders crossing the border from Pakistan.

More than 1,000 American troops from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit will take control of the border between Helmand and Pakistan later this month. They will concentrate on providing the firepower to kill Taliban leaders as they cross the border from their base in the Pakistani city of Quetta.

The US marines will work with the British Special Forces Support Group and Special Boat Service commandos who are tracking Taliban crossing the border. They will use the firepower of their M1A1 Abrams tanks and AH-1W Cobra helicopter gunships to launch a frontal assault on the hardliners.