Taliban bring down U.S. helicopter

Officials and Thirty-one U.S. Special Forces were killed in Afghanistan when the Taliban shot down their planes, Saturday, the deadliest incident for foreign troops in a war that lasted ten years - Poly Alam, Afghanistan (AFP).

To kill Americans and seven Afghan soldiers during an operation to fight the Taliban on Friday night when a rocket fired by insurgents landed their planes hit the Chinook in Wardak province, southwest of the capital Kabul.
Given the number of deaths in a statement issued by the office of President Hamid Karzai and was not confirmed immediately by the NATO-led International Force for Security Assistance (ISAF).
"The president of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan expresses its deep sympathy and condolences to U.S. President Barack Obama and the family of the victims," ​​said he.
The Afghan Defense Ministry said the local forces who were killed as they were special forces.
The U.S. television network ABC News, twenty-five of the dead U.S. Navy SEALs. The Pentagon refused to comment on the case or the number of deaths. And the strike so far the worst to hit the foreign forces since the beginning of U.S. and other international invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban in 2001 following the attacks of September 11.

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Afghan governor kidnapped

ASADABAD: Suspected militants kidnapped governor of the restive Afghan province near the border with Pakistan, a senior local official as saying on Saturday.

He said Khan was kidnapped traveler Qayyumzai, Ghazi Abad district governor, on Friday with his son and two of his bodyguards and Mr. Fadlallah Kunar provincial governor Waahedi.
"When he was on his way to his office from home, and taken from his car by unknown assailants and taken away," said Waahedi. He added that local officials now had "to take steps to secure the release of the governor of the province through the mediation of tribal and negotiate with the Taliban."
Taliban and other often kidnapped police, soldiers and NGO workers in Afghanistan, but relatively rare for them to target prominent local politicians. Taliban insurgents are waging a near 10-year-long insurgency against the government of President Hamid Karzai and Afghan security forces and foreign troops that support the administration.

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