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Transcript: TWELVE MILITANTS KILLED, SUICIDE BOMBER THWARTED IN AFGHANISTAN
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
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- April 13, 2009
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INDSTRY GROUP 91
Regulatory Intelligence Data
04-13-2009
WASHINGTON, April 13, 2009 - Twelve militants were killed and a suicide
bomber was stopped in Afghanistan during weekend operations. On April 11,
Afghan and coalition forces conducting a combat reconnaissance patrol in
the Shinkay district of Afghanistan's Zabol province killed four armed
militants who attacked them using rocket-propelled grenades and small-
arms fire. The forces responded with smallarms and heavy-weapons fire and
close-air support, killing the militants. An Afghan man accidentally flipped
his vehicle and suffered minor injuries as he fled the area to escape the
militants' gunfire. In the Sabari district of Khowst province, ...