Post via Islamic Emirate

HELMAND, Mar. 16 – Mujahideen carried out an attack on a key enemy check post at midnight in Shawal Manda area of Nad Ali district, destroying the post guard towers with rockets, killing and wounding 9 hireling troops as well as seizing a US machine gun, US rifle and 2 Ak rifles.

Meanwhile another enemy check posts in Baizo area of the capital Lashkargah was also overrun during a one hour armed attack at 02:00 am local time today, killing 4 police and detaining 4 others.

A RPG launcher, PKM machine gun, 5 rifles, mortar tube and a sizable amount of other equipment was recovered from the site according to reports which add that a Mujahid was also injured in the operation.

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”