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	Special on insecurity in the south - Continued (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		But for the people of Zabol province, it may already be too late.
		Maulavi Mohammad Omar, Zabol's deputy governor, told IRIN the inhabitants of the province needed more support from the central government to strengthen their security.
		But according to Jan Mohammad Khan, governor of the central Oruzgan Province, it is banditry along the region's roads and highways that constitutes the real threat.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=35988 (745 words)

	Zabul province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zabul, Afghanistan is the only Afghan province in which the Taliban have named (in the post-U.S. invasion of Afghanistan era) their own governor and officials to rival those appointed by the government in Kabul.
		In April 2003 the Taliban captured the Deh i-Chopan district of the province, but Afghan government troops retook control.
		This page was last modified 10:38, 15 November 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zabol_province (79 words)

	CNN.com - Commander: Taliban sending 300 more fighters in to battle - Sep. 2, 2003
		Zabol provincial intelligence chief Khalil Hotak said Afghan government forces backed by U.S.-led troops were searching in the Koh Larzab area of Dai Chopan, where he said Taliban militants were believed to be hiding in caves.
		The battle in Zabol helped make August the bloodiest month since the Taliban was toppled from power by U.S. air power and Afghan ground forces in late 2001.
		The highway is the largest reconstruction project in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001, and its progress is seen as a barometer of the success or otherwise of the central government in stabilising the country.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/central/09/02/afghanistan.fighting.reut (637 words)

	Teams to Find and Rescue Election Workers
		An improvised explosive device exploded Oct. 27 near a joint coalition and ANA patrol near Qalat in Zabol province, Nelson reported today.
		Coalition forces discovered three weapons caches this week; one was northeast of Kandahar, another was near Ghazni, and the third was in Hilmand province, Nelson said.
		The goal, he added, is to have a center in every province, with two in Kabul province.
	nyjtimes.com /cover/11-01-04/TeamsFind-RescueElectionWorkers.htm (292 words)

	t r u t h o u t - As Afghan Vote Nears, Taliban Isn't Only Worry
		He had returned to Qalat, the capital of the southeastern province of Zabol 50 miles to the south, to bury his sons.
		At the same time, however, many Afghans say they are more worried about a different source of abuse and intimidation during the elections: pressure from local militia commanders to vote for certain candidates, which in turn would preserve the post-election grip on power that men with guns now wield in many areas of the country.
		In neighboring Kandahar province, which has a 200-mile border with Pakistan and is considered the religious birthplace of the Taliban, tribal elders from several districts last week described finding at their doorsteps what they called night letters from purported Taliban forces, warning people not to vote or face dire consequences.
	www.truthout.org /docs_04/100504I.shtml (1816 words)

	t r u t h o u t - Terrorism: The Return of the Taliban
		In the village of Moqar, at the threshold of the Zabol district, the countryside of which is entirely controlled by the insurgents, the former spokesperson for the Taliban government in Europe, Mullah Nek Muhammad Nekmal, agrees to see us.
		"In Zabol province," Bismillah summarizes, "you have a choice: to be arrested by the government because you have a beard or to be killed by the Taliban because you look like a spy..." And then there are the American bombing raids.
		Forty-year-old Rahman Akhondzada is one of the commanders of the Taliban insurgency in Zabol province.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/110705A.shtml (2077 words)

	U.S. soldier killed on patrol in Afghanistan \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		In other violence yesterday, Afghan soldiers clashed with police in the southern Zabol province and Afghan troops battled militiamen in Kandahar, killing two, local officials said.
		The two wounded soldiers were taken to a medical facility at another base in neighboring Khost province, where they were in stable condition, McCann said.
		In Zabol province, Afghan soldiers exchanged fire with police, leaving several casualties and prompting U.S. forces to step in to restore order, police and witnesses said.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20041102/news_1n2afghan.html (352 words)

	4 U.S. Soldiers In Afghanistan Killed When Bomb Rips Convoy: From The Tampa Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The bombing in the Deh Chopan district of Zabol province was one of a series of assaults Sunday launched by insurgents across the country's south and east, even as U.S. and Afghan forces continued a major offensive to flush them from their mountain hideouts before parliamentary elections scheduled for Sept. 18.
		In southern Kandahar province, gunmen on a motorbike assassinated Maulvi Abdullah, a prominent pro-government cleric, and a colleague as they were walking to a mosque, Afghan officials said.
		In a separate attack in the province, in Spin Boldak near the border with Pakistan, gunmen fired on another senior cleric, but he escaped.
	www.tampatrib.com /News/MGBX8568OCE.html (449 words)

	Taliban blamed in slaying of engineer, soldier \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Another Turkish engineer and the car's driver were abducted, said Naimatullah Khan, army commander for Zabol province.
		The attack occurred in the early afternoon along the Kabul-Kandahar highway in the district of Shahjoy, in Zabol province.
		The shooting and abduction yesterday occurred in the same area of restive Zabol province as several other attacks on foreign aid workers, engineers and Afghan security forces in recent months.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040306/news_1n6taliban.html (262 words)

	GN Online: The dry wood of home
		For Habibullah Taraki from Zabol province, it was the greatest and happiest day of his life when Dr. Najibullah acceded to UN-initiated peace talks in 1992 and surrendered power to the Mujahideen alliance forces fighting the communist regime and former Soviet Red Army on their soil.
		But Taraki, a farmer who fought the Russians from 1979 to 1992, soon realised that it was not the end of his miseries as Mujahideen factions started fighting for power between themselves.
		Taraki is among thousands of Zabol residents who have left behind their ancestral lands and settled elsewhere in the country or sought refuge in Pakistan and Herat.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=11925 (1112 words)

	friendly printed version:Action Update: Aug. 30–Sept. 12, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		30, as U.S.-led coalition planes bombed Weradesh in the Pech district of Konar province.
		The American military claimed to have killed two Taliban officials in the clashes, while Gen. Khial Baz of the Afghan military said three Taliban rebels were killed.
		5 during a raid of a suspected Taliban hideout in Dewalak, a village in Zabol province along the Pakistani border.
	www.cdi.org /friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?documentID=2447 (1309 words)

	AFGHANISTAN: UN suspends mine-clearance - 08-May-03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The incident took place on the major road from Kabul to Kandahar, where the agency is clearing mines to facilitate the reconstruction of the 540-km road, one of the major highways of connecting the south of the country to the capital in the centre, and onwards to the north.
		The ambulance was attacked in Shah Juy District of Zabol Province at 18:00 local time when the agency's three-vehicle convoy was proceeding towards the western city of Herat.
		In a similar attack on 22 April, two operatives working with a UN-funded mine-clearance agency were wounded on the main highway from Kabul to the border with Pakistan in eastern Afghanistan.
	iys.cidi.org /humanitarian/hsr/centralasia/ixl3.html (514 words)

	Third Army/ARCENT/CFLCC - News Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		DOHA, Qatar (Feb. 16, 2005) - A series of snowstorms in Afghanistan during the early part of February dumped several feet of snow that blocked roads, left travelers stranded without shelter and trapped families in their homes without adequate food supplies in Afghanistan's Zabol province.
		Heavy rains have only made matters worse, making even roads that are cleared of snow so muddy that no vehicle can pass over them.
		The infantry battalion's soldiers have been in Zabol province since April 2004.
	www.arcent.army.mil /news/archive/2005_news/february/snow_storm.asp (426 words)

	Afghanistan : Afghan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Many of the country's historic monuments have been damaged in the wars in recent years.
		The two famous statues of Buddha in the Bamiyan[?] province were destroyed by the Taliban as symbols of another religion.
		The earthquakes occurred at Samangan Province (March 3) and Baghlan Province (March 25).
	www.findword.org /af/afghan.html (1930 words)

	The Jawa Report: Dozens of Taliban Killed and Captured (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		On Monday, U.S. and Afghan forces killed 12 suspected militants and detained nine others in a raid in Zabol province, the U.S. military said.
		The operation in Zabol followed a raid in neighboring Kandahar province in which U.S. and Afghan forces killed 13 suspected Taliban fighters, and captured dozens more, in a remote area where a political candidate was kidnapped and executed last week, a provincial official said.
		U.S. and Afghan troops dropped by parachute from American aircraft in the operation, which began Sunday, Kandahar Gov. Asadullah Khalid said by telephone from Kandahar city, the provincial capital.
	mypetjawa.mu.nu /archives/116303.php (465 words)

	Four Taleban killed in Afghan Zabol Province - AIP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Four Taleban killed in Afghan Zabol Province - AIP
		Peshawar, 18 June: Four Taleban insurgents have been killed in [southern] Zabol Province.
		Speaking to AIP [Afghan Islamic Press] today, Golab Shah Alikhel, the spokesman for Zabol governor, said: "Four Taleban were killed when a group of them attacked a security post in Daichupan District at around 0100 this morning [2030 gmt 17 June]."
	news.monstersandcritics.com /mediamonitor/article_1015906.php/... (350 words)

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