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FARYAB, Feb. 27 – Officials reporting from northern Faryab province say that the savage General Dostum and his Gelum Jum militias riding on hundreds of motorbikes and backed by 300 APCs and military vehicles as well as helicopters entered Khwaja Musa district center at noon time today as Mujahideen carried out a tactical retreat.

As the enemy entered the area, Mujahideen began engaging them from 4 axis, triggering heavy battles in which 3 enemy APCs were destroyed, 11 gunmen killed and 25 others wounded as well as another APC, a Dshk heavy machine gun and other equipment seized.

The enemy fled the district center at 06:00 pm with Mujahideen still pursuing and engaging the withdrawing enemy.

Reports say that only 1 Mujahid has been injured in the entire fighting, adding that the fighting is still ongoing at the moment, more details about which will be updated later.

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Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights/WOT and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad.  She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”