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Kabul, June 27. At least 32 Taliban and three soldiers have died in three weeks in allied military operations in Badghis province (northwest Afghanistan), which is deployed part of the Spanish contingent, Efe reported a official source.

The operations have taken place in the last three weeks Jairjan area, located in the district of Qadis, by troops of the Afghan army and international Efe said the deputy head of police in Badghis, Abdul Ghani Saber.
According to Saber, did not practice the joint forces arrested during the fighting, in which at least twenty insurgents were wounded.

In recent weeks news has transcended several skirmishes between security forces and the Taliban in Badghis, a balance particularly painful for the Spanish troops in the area.

This Sunday, two Spanish soldiers died and three others were wounded by a device when the vehicle they were traveling in armored in Afghan district Qala-i-Naw, which are based the troops.

And the past 18 days, a roadside bomb wounding four soldiers and a civilian interpreter, also blew up their armored near the town of Ludina.

The operations of the last three weeks have taken place in the southern part of Badghis, a region with about 500,000 inhabitants and wide as the Spanish province of Cáceres.

There are currently deployed to Afghanistan about 1,500 Spanish soldiers, while Spain, like other members of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) of NATO, is planning to start his retirement in the first half of 2012 and complete it in 2014.

Western countries begin early next year abandonment of Afghanistan in a withdrawal that will take about three years. And will end with a resounding failure from the strategic standpoint, the policy has not been able to ever win this war, tactical and military troops arrived with a great lack of land and a surprising ignorance of history – and loss of human lives since the conflict has killed tens of thousands of civilians. The balance of the war launched by the United States in 2001 under the pompous name of Operation Enduring Freedom with the backing of the United Nations, and that was to find Osama bin Laden, today is not satisfactory to anyone, and little has served that NATO took over in 2003 and tried to give an image of a multinational force in the conflict. Long ago that Western societies no longer believe in the invasion of Afghanistan and began to wonder how it was possible to gain positions away from just the opposite happened.

Today the situation is quite alarming, as tribal leaders have come to completely dominate the area, as there is a territory that can be considered absolute total control of NATO. Even the capital, Kabul, has never been a city under the authority minimally West. The home, although the formula view of new destinations for the troops, it will be a release for all governments that have staff in the area. In Spain, where like so little to talk about international politics if not to stop fighting the two major parties, the contribution has killed nearly a hundred people. Many like to do a reflection.