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2 Jordanians Killed in U.S.-British Strikes on Afghanistan
Two pro-Taliban Jordanian fighters have been killed in Afghanistan during the U.S.-British military strikes on the country, the semiofficial Jordan Times reported on Sunday.
The two unidentified Jordanian men, from the northern Balqa district of the kingdom, were believed to be members of Mujahedeen Warriors, who originally went to Afghanistan to fight against the Soviet invasion of the country in the 1980s, the English daily said.
Jordanian officials said that they have heard about the death of the two Jordanians, but they are not clear about when and how they were killed.
Hundreds of Arab nationals had fought against the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan and many of them stayed in the county after the Soviet troops' withdrawal in 1989 and are known as Arab Afghans.
The Jordanian government said that some 150 of the Arab Afghans are Jordanians, while independent estimates put the number at several hundred.
U.S. and British forces started on October 7 military operations on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia, accused of harboring Saudi-born Osama bin Laden, blamed by Washington as the prime suspect behind the September 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington.
Jordan has strongly condemned the terror attacks on the U.S. and backed the establishment of an international anti-terror coalition, but it stressed that innocent Afghan civilians should be spared from any military attacks or revenges.
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