
Where they will be promptly killed by U.S. Marines.
Via The Hill:
Arab and Chechen fighters are flowing into a restive province in southern Afghanistan, as American and Afghan forces make their final push to flush Taliban forces from the area.
Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), backed by U.S. military units, expect to clear Sangin province in southern Afghanistan cleared of all Taliban fighters by this week, Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Lee Miller, head of Regional Command-Southwest, said on Wednesday.
“They’re closing that fight rapidly, and they’ve done quite well,” Miller said of ANSF operations during the Sangin offensive.
“I suspect by tomorrow the Taliban will have been defeated in Sangin and move out to wherever else they intend to go here in the future,” Miller told reporters at the Pentagon during a teleconference from Afghanistan.
The Sangin offensive, focused on the Pashtun heartland of southern Afghanistan, has seen some of the fiercest fighting since the Marines headed into the province three years ago.
That said, Miller noted that fighters from outside the province and Afghanistan have begun to stream into Sangin, as Taliban forces attempt to push back against the American and Afghan offensive.
Close to 1,000 insurgents, including Arab and Chechen fighters allied with al Qaeda, launched a series of counter strikes against U.S. and ANSF positions in Sangin and Helmand provinces beginning Monday.
