Post via Islamic Emirate

HERAT, May. 12 – Reports from Shindand district say that combined hireling troops launched an operation against Mujahideen positions in the district center peripheries last night at 09:30 pm local time.

The Quick Reaction Force of Islamic Emirate immediately arrived and engaged the enemy in fierce combat that lasted till around 04:00 am in the morning during which 7 enemy check posts were completely overrun, over 21 hirelings killed and wounded and 3 APCs destroyed.

Officials say that 5 pickup trucks, 10 motorbikes, Dshk heavy machine gun, mortar tube, 2 PKM machine guns, 19 rifles and a sizable amount of ammo was seized from the enemy, adding that only 4 Mujahideen were injured in the entire duration of the fighting.

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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”.