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Two Daring Attacks on US Troops in Afghanistan

Juan Cole 10/27/2008

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In Baghlan in northern Afghanistan, a suicide bomber killed two US troops while meeting at a local police station. Baghlan, a center of sugar beet production, is largely Tajik (Sunni Persian-speakers) but has a Pushtun minority, some of whom are anti-American and anti-Karzai government. In November of 2007, Taliban there hit a sugar factory during a parliamentary visit, killing some 100 persons, including 6 legislators.

In Wardak to the south, Taliban shot at a US helicopter with small arms, forcing it down. There were no casualties.

Mulla Rashid Akhund, the Taliban commander in Wardak, claimed to have 2000 fighters as of last winter.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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