Word: torghar
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...back hard. Following a tip from a rebel captured near Kandahar, U.S. forces and their Afghan allies killed at least 20 suspected Taliban fighters at a base in the Haba mountains, according to Gul Agha Sherzai, the Kandahar governor. When a special-forces patrol came under fire in the Torghar mountains, air support was called in, and an estimated 40 Taliban fighters were pounded with 35,000 lbs. of explosives, according to a U.S. military spokesman. Afghan officials say many of these rebels are sneaking in from the Pakistani borderlands, which are off limits to U.S. troops. In early March...
...back hard. Following a tip from a rebel captured near Kandahar, U.S. forces and their Afghan allies killed at least 20 suspected Taliban fighters at a base in the Haba Mountains, according to Gul Agha Sherzai, the Kandahar governor. When a special - forces patrol came under fire in the Torghar Mountains, air support was called in, and an estimated 40 Taliban fighters were pounded with 16,000 kg of explosives, according to a U.S. military spokesman...
...Khrum, nestled in the Torghar Mountain range about 20 miles Jalalabad, was in ruins after suffering direct hits recently. The unexploded bomb and bomb and missile shrapnel littering the destroyed village were clear indications of an air attack. The stench of death hung in the air as corpses of cattle and goats lay unburied. Over two dozen fresh graves were visible in Khrum...
...less than 200 - probably around 100. But irrespective of the numbers, the reality staring us in the face was a whole village razed to the ground only because it was mistaken for an Osama bin Laden training camp or a Taliban ammunition depot. Khrum's location in the Torghar, where the Afghan mujahedeen had established several bases while fighting the Soviet occupation, brought about its misfortune. Villagers claimed these camps were no longer operational but obviously the Americans think otherwise - hence the repeated air strikes...
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