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21 March 2003:
530 days have passed since America launched its latest Crusade against Islam and its people.
A number of Muslim prisoners were captured in this Crusade and taken to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba where their beards were forcibly shaved and they are being held in cages subject to Malaria, heatstroke and other tropical diseases.
Mujahideen Strikes Against Coalition Forces in Afghanistan Intensify as Iraq War Commences, More Than 20 Coalition Troops Killed Including 3 US Commandos
KHOST (AZZAM):
The Mujahideen have intensified their operations against Coalition forces in Afghanistan as the US led war against Iraq commences.
In various operations by Mujahideen guerrilla units, more than twenty Coalition troops were killed including three US commandos, while fourteen others sustained serious injuries.
In Sata Kandao, a region between Khost and Gardez, Mujahideen forces attacked US commandos, killing three on the spot and injuring seven others.
These Mujahideen were led by the famous Taliban commander Maulvi Lateefullah Mansoor.
The Mujahideen also attacked Khost's 25 brigade killing eight troops.
Coalition sources listed a further seven soldiers as missing.
These missing troops are suspected to have been taken as prisoners by the Mujahideen unit during the attack, which took place at midnight on Wednesday.
A severe encounter was reported between Mujahideen and Coalition troops in Zawar, a well-known Jihad base in Afghanistan.
The battle was said to have lasted for more than two and a half hours.
Three Coalition soldiers were killed and two others received serious injuries.
A military checkpoint in the Gardez district of the Khost province was destroyed in another attack.
The Mujahideen also set fire to three military vehicles.
Warplanes bombed the entire region heavily after Coalition troops called in reinforcements amidst the fear and tension.
Later in the day another Mujahideen unit launched a missile attack at Afghan military checkpoints near Sayed-Gee, an Afghan-Pakistan border region.
Local Afghan commander Shah Wali Mengal along with four of his troops was seriously injured in this attack.
An encounter also occurred between Taliban and US-Afghan troops at Luni Corner in Spin Boldak.
No further details of this incident were available at the time of this report going to Press.
A local Afghan puppet-commander along with two of his men were killed in a guerrilla attack by the Taliban, on a checkpoint in Lowee Karez.
Two Mujahideen were martyred when the soldiers returned fire.
More than 1000 US and Coalition forces arrived in Spin Boldak from Kandahar.
They have started a large-scale search operation for Al-Qaida and Taliban suspects, but no arrests have been reported so far.
Local Afghan troops and US commandos have set up bunkers in the mountains to resist Mujahideen operations.
These reinforcements arrived in the region after the attack in Lowee Karez.
More attacks were reported from various regions of Afghanistan.
The US base at Bagram was attacked once again with rockets.
One military truck was totally destroyed.
Clashes intensified between local Afghan troops and rival Bacha Khan troops.
Ten soldiers were reported as killed on both sides.
Forces loyal to Commander Atta and Rasheed Dostam were also engaged in battles with each other in Darra-e-Soof and Sarpul.
Five troops were reported killed and several others arrested on both sides so far in this encounter.
A few Mujahideen suspects were arrested by US troops in Kandahar.
US warplanes carried out heavy bombing over Khost, Paktika and Gardez.
Bomb explosions and rocket attacks were reported in Kandahar and so far 21 suspects have been arrested along with electronic equipment in their possession.
Operations by US Troops in Afghan Provinces of Lughman and Nooristan
ISLAMABAD (AZZAM):
US troops, assisted by helicopter gunships and battle tanks, have carried out search operations to locate and neutralise Mujahideen units in the Afghan border provinces of Lughman and Nooristan.
Afghan General, Asmatullah, said that US troops were trying to locate Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Usama Bin Ladin and their allies in the Lughman province.
US troops gave up after they found nothing following an intense operation.
No arrests were made.
The Afghan General also said that early intelligence reports received indicated that Bin Ladin and Hekmatyar had entered the Afghan provinces Kunar and Nooristan from the Pakistan border region of Chitral.
The search for Usama Bin Ladin has been intensified after the arrest of Khalid Sheikh.
For this purpose, US troops have established two new military bases in the north-eastern Afghan border areas.
The first base was set up in Bree-kot in Kunar, and the second in the Nangaraaj region of the Lughman province.