At Least 16 Taliban Killed in Afghanistan

What a wonderful way to start 2008! U.S. and Afghan forces put some real hurt on the Taliban to start the New Year with at least 16 Taliban killed across Afghanistan.

A Taliban suicide bomber, all dressed up in his New Year's Eve best (suicide bomb belt) didn't quite make it to the "Party" and is one of the 16 noted above. :wicked smile:

Full story here.

At least 16 Taliban killed in Afghanistan: officials

HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) - At least 16 Taliban rebels including a suspected would-be suicide bomber were killed in US-led and Afghan operations across insurgency-plagued Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.

A man wearing a bomb-filled waistcoat was shot dead near a police checkpost in the eastern province of Khost on Tuesday, a police official said.
"He wanted to target our police but our guys shot him dead before he succeeded in exploding his bombs," the police official, Mohammad Yaqoub, told AFP.
Meanwhile, the US-led coalition said its troops and Afghan forces killed "several" Islamic guerrillas in an operation in the southern province of Helmand on Tuesday. It did not give an exact figure

In a separate incident linked to the Taliban insurgency, 10 Taliban rebels were killed after attacking an Afghan police checkpost in the western province of Badghis on the Iranian border, the interior ministry said.
One police officer was also killed in the attack late Monday in the province's Balmurghab district, the ministry's spokesman, Zemarai Bashary, told AFP. Two other police were wounded, he added.
Elswhere, in Zabul province, another Taliban-dominated region in the south, two rebels were killed when a bomb they were trying to plant on a road to target security forces exploded prematurely, police official Mohammad Zaman said.