Nine Taliban Killed in Afghanistan Battle

More good news out of Afghanistan - as usual, the Taliban conduct an ambush on U.S. forces in Afghanistan and the Taliban get decimated. Nine of the attacking Taliban were killed in the attack with no casualties on our side. From the brief report on the attack here from AP:

Afghan and foreign troops battled militants who ambushed their patrol in central Afghanistan on Thursday, leaving nine Taliban fighters dead, a government official said.
The clash occurred in the Gilan district of Ghazni province, said district chief Abdul Wali Thofan. There were no casualties among the troops, he said. He did not specify where the foreign forces came from, but most of the troops in Ghazni are American

This is a bit more unusual in that the attack occurred more in central Afghanistan than in the volatile south.

Update: Another excellent report is out here at CJTF of NATO forces capturing 12 Taliban fighters:

Two targeted militants and 10 suspected militants were detained during two separate operations April 16 in the Khowst and Nimroz provinces.

It's obvious that the Taliban are becoming more and more active with the onslaught of spring in Afghanistan but this certainly shows nothing of a coordinated " Spring Offensive." Hopefully, we will see these numbers of dead and captured Taliban become a daily tally.

9 dead in clashes with troops in central Afghanistan

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan and foreign troops battled militants who ambushed their patrol in central Afghanistan on Thursday, leaving nine Taliban fighters dead, a government official said.
The clash occurred in the Gilan district of Ghazni province, said district chief Abdul Wali Thofan. There were no casualties among the troops, he said. He did not specify where the foreign forces came from, but most of the troops in Ghazni are American.
Authorities recovered the militants' bodies along with their weapons and six motorbikes, Thofan said.
Separately, a roadside bomb struck a Canadian military vehicle in southern Afghanistan, the heart of the Taliban-led insurgency.
No one died in the blast on Thursday near Spin Boldak, a town on the Pakistani border, said Lt. Cmdr Pierre Babinsky, a spokesman for NATO troops in the south.
He declined to say whether any soldiers were wounded.
The insurgency has left more than 1,000 people dead so far this year, most of them militants, according to an Associated Press tally of figures provided by Afghan and Western officials.