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□イギリス軍がアフガニスタン南部の主要基地から撤退(英文記事)
http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/10/17/6005.shtml
UK occupation forces quit Afghan base
Publication time: 17 October 2006, 15:22
British occupation troops have withdrawn from Musa Qala, a key base in southern Afghanistan where they have come under heavy attack from Taliban fighters. Nevertheless Mark Laity, a Nato spokesman in Kabul, asserted the British troops withdrew from the district in Helmand province after tribal elders and the provincial puppet "governor" agreed to take responsibility for security in the area.
He also asserted that the troops had left "because of the sustained period of calm" and added that Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, had supported the move.
"There has not been any contact with the Taliban and they are not involved in this."
General David Richards, the British Nato commander in Afghanistan, said the British troops were redeployed because "security had been established in Musa Qala".
"The word pulling out is wrong. We reserve the right to rebalance and move our troops in which ever way makes military sense," he told reporters in Kabul.
Tribal chiefs and "afghan troops" now controlled the district and Nato would send its forces back if needed, he said.
Musa Qala has been one of the most volatile regions of Helmand, where about 4,000 British troops who deployed to the province in the spring have been engaged in heavy fighting with the Taliban.
British occupation soldiers were withdrawn from Musa Qala under heavy attack from Taliban fighters.
Nevertheless Mohammad Daud, puppet "governor" of Helmand province, said there had been no agreement with the Taliban.
He also rejected a reported statement by the Taliban that said the Afghan flag would no longer fly in the district.
"The Afghan flag is there, our new district chief, our new police chief with police are there," Daud said.
"There is not any kind of agreement [with the Taliban]. This was the demand of tribal elders."
Daud said the district leadership had also been changed, however, at the request of the tribal elders.
"They asked for good governors," he said.
In September, British Nato forces struck a deal with Musa Qala tribal elders in which the elders said they would drive out the Taliban in exchange for an end to military action that had caused heavy damage.
The deal resulted in a sharp drop in clashes, Nato said at the time.
Also on Tuesday, Nato aircraft dropped three 500lb bombs on a compound in the Khod Valley of southern Uruzgan province, in support of a Nato-led operation against a group of suspected Taliban fighters who are believed to have previously ambushed Nato and Afghan troops.
A Nato statement said that the air strike had killed a suspected mid-level Taliban commander and up to 15 other suspected fighters.
No civilians were hurt or neighboring buildings damaged, it said.
Elsewhere, suspected Taliban fighters destroyed an oil tanker transporting fuel for Nato-led peacekeepers and killed its driver in southern Kandahar province's Spin Boldak district, said General Abdul Raziq, a border police official.
Agencies
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