A day-to-Day Chronicle of Afghanistan's Guerrilla and Civil War, June 2003 – Present

Day : September 18, 2003

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Garjani Khel district	Paktika				6		Talibs attacked Afghan Army near Garjani Khel, inflicting casualties, overtaking town, setting gov't buildings ablaze, and then fading away. Taliban admit 6 killed, but say they control the district.	Jihad Unspun 9/19/03
near Shkin fire base	Paktika						1-hr firefight between Taliban and 10^th Mountain troops, which fired artillery, called-in air supprt. Taliban fade away.	AP 9/19/03 - P. Haven
Wana district	Pakistan					US warplanes	Mistakenly drop three bombs 50 yards inside Pakistan!	USA Today 9/19/03 citing the AP

Day : September 19, 2003

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Ghoz Garhi border village in Kurram Agency's FATA, 15 kms southwest of Parachinar	Pakistan						Pak. Troops seized large weapons cache in a house and arrested one Afghan, according to Pak officials in Parachinar.	AP 9/19/03 - P. Haven
`Sangisar village in Panjwee district, 30 kms. west of Kandahar, former home of Mullah Omar	Kandahar		1				Taliban in a Toyota Corolla ambush local district police commander, Haji Sardar Mohammad, and his security detail. Kill Sardar and severely injure 2 guards.	AP 9/20/03 - N. Khan ; Dawn 9/21/03.

Day : September 20, 2003

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Barmal (Birmal) town	Paktika	2					Taliban control the town since August. Barmal security chief lost 2 sons in that attack and has since fled to Khost with all other officials.	Jang.news 9/21/03; Arab Times (Kuwait) 9/21/03 citing AFP; Jihad Unspun 9/22/03

Day : September 21, 2003

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
near Qalat	Ghazni						~ 4 Taliban attack US-led troops near Qalat	Jang.news 9/23/03
Gardez city	Paktia						US forces arrested/abducted 12 persons on charges of being part of Al Qaeda. The 12 worked for the Madina and Jaddah int'l charities - 12 names published. An alleged confident of Bin Laden is included, Thamr Mohammad Sharifi. All were transferred to Bagram for 'interrogation.'	Jihad Unspun 9/23/03

Day : September 23, 2003

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :`
Suri district, 23 kms. south of Qalat	Zabul						Afghan troops raid a house and arrested "four Taliban" (incl. brother of former Taliban in Qalat). The 4 are being 'interrogated.'	HT 9/24/03 citing the AP; Reuters 9/24/03 at 06:31 AM ET -S.A. Achakzai

Day : September 24, 2003

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
road in Gereshk district	Helmand	2					4 Talibs in Toyota taxi ambush pickup truck carrying 3 persons working for the Afghan NGO, Voluntary Assoc. For Rehabilitation of Afghanistan (VARA), killing engineer and injuring driver who later died in a US military hospital. Taliban's Mullah Abdul Samad admit the assault. On Sept. 27^th, Kandahar gov't made 2 arrests.	Reuters 9/26/03 ; Jihad Unspun 9/25/03.

Day : September 25, 2003

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Town of Sarobi	Kabul						Taliban capture the strategic town for a short while in an attack that even Afghan officials consider 'amazing.'	Jihad Unspun 9/26/03
Nishtarabad district of Peshawar	Pakistan						6 Pak. Intelligence officers followed 2 persons for a couple days, then pounced on them while they were on an Internet terminal at a cafe. Arrested/abducted the two as 'Al Qaeda suspects.' One is a Yemeni, Khalid Ahmed, the other an Afghan. Witnesses reported both were beaten up by Pak. Plainclothesmen.	AP 9/26/03 - Riaz Khan; Dawn 9/27/03

Day : September 26, 2003

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Dai Chopan area	Central Uruzgan				1		According to 'senior Afghan military commander, Abdul Achakzai' the fighting in Dai Chopan resulted in death of Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Razzaq Nafees. Taliban say they lost contact with him ~ Sept. 24^th. Nafees was a member of the 10 person Taliban central shura.	Jang.news 10/7/03 ; Reuters 10/6/03 at 8:43 AM ET.
near Gardez	Paktia						Taliban attack a US patrol with home-made bomb and small arms fire. No casualties reported on either side.	Jang.news 9/27/03 ; Jihad Unspun 9/28/03

Day : September 27, 2003

location	province	Afghan civilian deaths	Afghan military deaths	U.S. military & allied deaths	Taliban or allies killed	weapon	commentary	Sources :
Shaga village in the Dara-e-Noor district	Nangarhar						Suspected Taliban late Sat., burn down single-storey primary school, tied up school's guard, and fled. Night letters in Jalalabad had warned against educating girls.	AP 9/28/03 at 7:30 AM ET - J. Hashimzada
Sangeen district 230 kms. north of Lashkar Gah	Helmans		7				10 Talibs in 2 cars ambush military governor's vehicle carrying soldiers, killing 7, destroying vehicle. But, Helmand governor, Sher Mohammad Akhundzada was not in vehicle. US troops had searched Sangeen district in April 2003, trying to capture/kill Mullahs Dadullah and Akhtar Mohammad.	Reuters 9/28/03 ; Sun Times 4/9/03
Barikot base	Kunar						Taliban assert that US forces abandoned their Barikot fire base, retreating to their larger Topchi base in Asadabad. In November 2002, US forces abandoned their Lwara fire base.	Bal Post 9/29/03 ; Jang.news 9/29/03