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30 killed in Afghanistan

Taliban threatens Western nations in video message

AFP, Kabul/ Madrid
New insurgency-linked violence left five policemen and 25 militants dead in Afghanistan, authorities said yesterday, as a UN Security Council team continued a tour to assess post-Taliban development
hi the southern province of Helmand. Taliban fighters infiltrated a police post and shot dead five policemen early Wednesday, provincial government spokesman Daud Ahmadi said
’There was no fighting. The enemy infiltrated our post and they killed the policemen.” he said.
A Taliban spokesman. Yousuf Ahmadi, confirmed the attack and said prisoners were taken.
"We attacked the post. We killed five policemen and we took another eight policemen prisoner,'’ he said.
Opium-producing Helmand is a stronghold of the Taliban, who ran the government between 1996 and 2001, and the insurgents are said to be in charge of several of Helmand's districts.
President Hamid Karzai told the UN Security Council team Tuesday it was unacceptable that insurgents controlled pockets of his country, including in areas where foreign troops operate under a UN mandate.
Also on Wednesday, US-led coalition troops killed 15 militants after they were attacked during a raid on a known "com-rnand and control centre for bombmakers in the southern province of Kandahar, the US military said in a statement.
."Coalition forces returned fire with small arms weapons killing 15 insurgents and detained six." the statement said
Another operation on Tuesday targeted a senior Taliban commander in the eastern province of Paktya who was believed to liaise between al-Qaeda and theTaliban. another statement said.
Five militants were killed in a clash at the site, it said, without making clear if the commander was among the dead.
Five more were killed and four arrested in another raid Tuesday in the adjoining province of Paktika that targeted the radical Haqqani network, which is linked to al-Qaeda.
"We continue to disrupt terrorist networks, stemming the flow of weapons and supplies that are used against innocent Afghan civilians.” US military spokesman Colonel Jerry O'Hara said.
There are nearly 70,000 international soldiers in Afghanistan, most of them under a UN mandate to help the government fight an insurgency led by the
Taliban and joined by other outfits such as the al-Qaeda and 1 laqqani networks.
Despite their efforts, security has deteriorated sharply this year prompting calls to re-evaluate the strategy to put down the rebellion and focus more atten tion on militant sanctuaries across the border in Pakistan.
Fifteen UN ambassadors and representatives arrived in Afghanistan on Monday to assess the internationally funded effort to help the destitute and fragile country, which has suffered 30 years of war.
They traveled to the western city of Herat on Wednesday where they met Afghan officials, a spokesman said without being able to give details.
Meanwhile, the Taliban has threatened to stage attacks on five Western nations deploying troops in Afghanistan in a video discovered by Spanish security forces, a local radio station said yesterday.
The United States, Spain, France, Denmark and Australia are warned in the 42-minute video along with Israel, news radio Cadena Ser said.
It "threatens Nato and US troops with attacks against their interests inside and outside of Afghan territory if they do not withdraw from Afghanistan," the radio said.