Taliban insurgents have attacked and taken control of administrative headquarters in Afghanistan's northern Sari province, according to the Associated Press. Fighting has been going in this region since Tuesday officials said.
Last month, when two U.S.-made Humvees started approaching a checkpoint in Afghanistan's Helmand province, the police assumed they were allied forces or friendly, according to Reuters.
However, they were not.
The insurgents had Machine guns. The police were not prepared for the attack; especially because they did not anticipate this would happen while seeing the Humvees approach. Afghan insurgents have seized many U.S.-made vehicles this year.
This has become a diffcult issue for police in the area.
"Right now we are working on a plan to launch a joint operation to retake the district from the Taliban," Provincial police chief Gen. Mohammad Asef Jabarkhail said, adding that one police commander and seven of his men had been forced to surrender.
14 security members were murdered and seven wounded in the attack in the Musa Qala district of the southern province, said Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor, according to Blog Pvan.
These United States vehicles are stolen and used for Islamic terrorism and jihad. "They frequently use them (Humvees) against us on the frontline, especially the heavy machine guns mounted on them," said Abdullah Danishy, deputy governor of Kunduz province in the north, scene of fierce fighting this year."
