Taliban ‘Red Units’ with Night Vision Kill Dozens of Afghan Police<br />Kandahar Province was that They have their own mobile special forces unit which is equipped with lasers<br />and night vision gear, and they are attacking check posts and bases and then leaving the area as quickly as possible to avoid airstrikes.<br />In the Kandahar attacks, none of the police posts were captured<br />and the police inflicted heavy casualties on the Taliban, said Matiullah Hellal, a spokesman for the police in Kandahar Province.<br />In five nighttime attacks in a 36-hour period on Monday<br />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.<br />Mr. Hellal, the spokesman for the Kandahar police, said<br />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.<br />Two Taliban units attacked other targets in Farah on Monday night<br />and Tuesday morning, killing three police officers at one post and 15 Afghan National Army soldiers at another, according to government officials.<br />Qudratullah Khushbakht said that The Taliban now are using different tactics,
