KABUL – Local Taliban commanders threatened Thursday to kill a captured American soldier unless the U.S. military stops operations in two districts of southeastern Afghanistan.
Also Thursday, Canadian authorities announced that a Canadian soldier was killed southwest of Kandahar, bringing to 47 the number of international troops killed in Afghanistan this month. That makes July the deadliest month of the war for foreign troops — with nearly half the month to go.
The Taliban claimed last week to be holding the American soldier, whom the U.S. military earlier described as possibly being in enemy hands.
Abdullah Jalali, a spokesman for Taliban commander Mawlavi Sangin, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Thursday that the soldier was healthy.
He said the soldier would be killed unless the U.S. stops airstrikes in Ghazni province's Giro district and Paktika province's Khoshamand district. Jalali did not explain why the Taliban chose those areas, noting only that Giro has been heavily bombed.
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4 comments:
we do not negotiate with terrorists sorry thats just the way it is.
May God be with our soldiers.
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I agree with the policy in mind, but try being his family or worse the soldier, and find comfort in that policy.
Ok so we already know the outcome of this. Sad. I just dont understand why they keep making demands like that. Thats like putting a wet paint sign on wet paint and watching ppl touch it to see if it is wet.
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