Taliban target Polish troops in Afghanistan

30th May 2009

Polish troops serving in Afghanistan have reported an upsurge in attacks, with rebels shelling their bases and targeting vehicles with roadside bombs.


One soldier was critically wounded after a bomb destroyed his American-made Cougar armoured fighting vehicle, and military sources report determined attacks as Taliban militants ratchet up their campaign against foreign forces.

“They are blazing away at us with bazookas, planting powerful booby traps wherever they can; even firing mortars at the vehicles,” one Krakow paratrooper serving in Afghanistan told the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. “They are obviously looking for a way to attack our vehicles and it looks like they've just fo ...