Operation Lightning Freedom. 18000 American Troops enter Afghanistan. (from ATSNN)

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A U.S. soldier and a former Afghan militia leader were killed Sunday when American troops clashed with gunmen during a search operation in western Afghanistan, U.S. and Afghan officials said. The troops came under attack from "an unknown number of enemy forces" while searching a compound near Shindand Airfield in Herat province and returned fire, a U.S. military statement said.
........a local militia commander, Akhtar Mohammed Husseini, said the compound belonged to a former militia leader called Mullah Dost. "There was fire from both sides. Mullah Dost was killed along with his wife, and two of their children were injured," Husseini told The Associated Press by telephone. "The Americans wanted to search his house, but we don''t know who fired first." Ziauddin Mahmoudi, the provincial police chief, gave a slightly different account, saying Dost and one of his daughters were killed in the pre-dawn fight. Mahmoudi said Dost was a veteran of Afghanistan's war against Soviet occupation in the 1980s who later aligned with the Taliban. He said Dost also served briefly as police chief in Shindand district last year.

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According to this summary www.newssafety.com/hotspots/documents/AKEAfghanistan07.01.2005.htm
Operation freedom has discovered large weapon caches [Some 100,000 tonnes of munitions are now earmarked to be removed from Afghanistan by the UN: 600 Russian trucks are filled with ammunition in Mazar-e-Sharif alone.], made arrests and is getting a good response from afghan districts from which little communication is normaly received.

Are the Russians involved in this operation? Or are they working with the UN in Afghanistan?

[edit on 31-1-2005 by kode]