Taliban Trying A Comeback in Afghanistan
This report by Noor Khan
Associated Press
24 April 2003
Remnants of former Taliban and al-Qaida have stepped up attacks in recent months on government offices and foreigners in Afghanistan in an attempt to make a comeback. Afghan authorities believe Taliban remnants are regrouping, with militants from crossing the countries' long, porous frontier with Pakistan.
On Wednesday, abouat 80 Taliban fighters attacked a government office Chapan in Zabul province, 150 miles northeast of the city of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan usingrockets and automatic weapons in a four-hour shootout. Two Afghan soldiers and three assailants dead, a senior official said on Thursday.The assailants then retreated to a nearby mountainous region.
Many of the attacks have occurred in areas of southern Afghanistan, close to the mountainous border with Pakistan, where many Taliban militants are believed to be hiding.
Two Afghan soldiers were killed on Wednesday when a land mine blew up their vehicle when they were traveling between Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, and Tora Bora.
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