Justice In Afghanistan: 24 Taliban Killed After Murdering Road Workers

I don't know which is better news...the fact that 24 Taliban jihadists were killed after they murdered an Afghan road construction crew the other day or the fact that the news agency, The Press Association, actually finally used the word "Taliban" in a headline (as opposed to "fighters" or "combatants" or "militants"). From the article at The Press Association here:

Twenty-four Taliban militants have died in clashes with Afghan and foreign troops in southern Afghanistan.The insurgents were believed to be responsible for an attack on a road-building project days earlier.

There aren't any details of the clashes that killed the Taliban but it is damn good to see the Afghan forces and NATO forces zero in on the Taliban group that committed the atrocity the other day - hopefully the word will spread throughout the mountains to ever Taliban that if you murder innocents, you will be killed soon after. This is how you fight a war against the jihadists.

24 Taliban killed in clashes

Twenty-four Taliban militants have died in clashes with Afghan and foreign troops in southern Afghanistan.The insurgents were believed to be responsible for an attack on a road-building project days earlier.In other violence a suicide bomber struck a road construction crew in south-western Afghanistan, killing two Indian engineers and their Afghan driver, while erosion has exposed bodies from a Taliban-era mass grave, officials said.The suicide attack on the Indian construction crew in the province of Nimroz wounded eight people, including five Indian workers and two civilians, said Governor Ghulam Dastagir.The bomber approached the construction site on foot, he said.The Indian Foreign Ministry identified the two dead engineers as M.P Singh and C Govindaswamy, both from its Border Roads Organisation.

Suicide attacks have been on the rise in Afghanistan, with the Taliban launching more than 140 such missions last year - the highest number since the radical Islamist group was ousted from power by a US-led invasion in 2001.In the northern province of Balkh, about six bodies from a Taliban-era mass grave have been exposed by weather and erosion, prompting officials to ask the central government what should be done, said Sher Jan Durani, spokesman for the provincial police chief.The grave contains more than 100 bodies of both soldiers and civilians that were buried by locals after Taliban militants stormed the city in the late 1990s and killed dozens of people, said Mr Durani.On Friday in southern Zabul province, Afghan and foreign troops clashed and called in airstrikes on militants, leaving 24 militants dead and eight others wounded, said Deputy Governor Ghulab Shah Alikheil.