Taliban ‘Red Units’ with Night Vision Kill Dozens of Afghan Police
Kandahar Province was that They have their own mobile special forces unit which is equipped with lasers
and night vision gear, and they are attacking check posts and bases and then leaving the area as quickly as possible to avoid airstrikes.
In the Kandahar attacks, none of the police posts were captured
and the police inflicted heavy casualties on the Taliban, said Matiullah Hellal, a spokesman for the police in Kandahar Province.
In five nighttime attacks in a 36-hour period on Monday
and Tuesday, fighters who appeared to be from such Taliban units killed scores of Afghan security personnel, mostly police officers, in two provinces in southern and western Afghanistan.
Mr. Hellal, the spokesman for the Kandahar police, said
that officers at only a quarter of the police posts in Kandahar had laser sights on their weapons, and that none had night-vision goggles.
Two Taliban units attacked other targets in Farah on Monday night
and Tuesday morning, killing three police officers at one post and 15 Afghan National Army soldiers at another, according to government officials.
Qudratullah Khushbakht said that The Taliban now are using different tactics,