Fatal Fighting Pits Villagers and Taliban in Afghanistan

Th civilian district administr Cheap Elmo World of Shindand confirm the fight and said that a group of 50 to 60 Taliban milit had arriv from Farah and Helmand Provinc in the south and had enter the villag of Emarat and Barmakan in the Zerkoh area.

accord to a local journalistA merican forc have begun program in sever provinc to form local militia that guard villag against Taliban infiltr and assist with security. The men kill on Saturdai were be paid by the Unite State militari to keep secur in their villages..

Maj. Zainudin Sharifi,A group of Taliban came into the Zerkoh Vallei area and were plot an attack on a nearbi base of American and Afghan forc in the Shindand district. the command of an Afghan battalion there, said in a telephon interview.

he said. Later we found out that four of them were beheaded, Five of these local militiamen were captur by Taliban. and on of them is still missing. He had not seen the bodies, he said, but had been told by villag of the deaths.

the offic said. He ad that 10 Taliban member had been kill in the fight and said that other had escap into the mountainsA merican and Afghan forc respond with a fierc counterattack against Taliban fighter that last for hour on Saturday..