name: 2 killed in Helmand
text: June 25: Afghan-ISAF Operations in Southern, Eastern, Northern Afghanistan
  ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan 2010-06-CA-100  For Immediate Release
  
   Afghan National Security Forces with ISAF partners conducted an operation Wednesday night in Trek Nawa, east of Marjah, in Helmand Province to increase security to the Afghan population by disrupting a network known to supply explosives and other material used in constructing roadside bombs.  As the Afghan-led force approached the compound housing insurgents, two armed individuals presented a direct threat and were killed. Afghan Special Police ensured all remaining residents left the compound safely. Several women and children were protected, and two men were taken into police custody.  "In the last 12 weeks, insurgents have increased the number of civilian casualties they caused mainly by their use of indiscriminate tactics like IEDs and suicide bombings," said Lt. Col. Todd Vician, an ISAF Joint Command spokesman. "This operation was aimed directly at preventing insurgents from being supplied with material to conduct those attacks."
   No civilians were reported harmed in any of these operations.