arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

Taliban Attack Kills Six Afghan Soldiers
Thu Aug 7, 9:10 AM ET

"KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Dozens of suspected Taliban fighters attacked a government office in southern Afghanistan (news - web sites) early Thursday, killing six Afghan soldiers and an Afghan driver for an American aid organization, a provincial intelligence chief said."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030807/ap_on_re_as/afghan_taliban_attack_3

Afghan commander gunned down in Kabul Tuesday, 05-Aug-2003 10:40AM

"An Afghan militia commander was Tuesday shot dead by two armed men in a west Kabul district, the official Bakhtar news agency said."
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/ae/Qafghanistan-security.Rdps_Da5.html

Afghans on Edge of Chaos
August 4, 2003

"Two months after a gun attack, the bullet holes in the Datsun sedan have been patched and it runs beautifully. But water engineer Asil Kahn walks with a limp and he still has two bullets in his body, one of them half an inch from his spine."

"The vehicle's humanitarian logo made him a victim in the battle for Afghanistan's future, where water engineers, mine-clearers and humanitarian workers — people the country needs most — are prime targets for militants trying to destabilize President Hamid Karzai's interim government."
http://www.latimes.com/la-fg-afghan4aug04235422,0,3690263.story