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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: 5 killed in Afghan operation targeting bomb-maker By JASON STRAZIUSO,Associated Press Writer AP - 2 hours 46 minutes ago KABUL - An overnight raid by U.S. coalition troops and Afghan special forces killed five militants during a mission targeting the leader of a roadside bomb-making cell south of Kabul, a U.S. spokesman said Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT However, a spokesman for the governor of Logar province said a government delegation had confirmed those killed were civilians. Angry villagers gathered in protest near a government compound later Saturday and police opened fire to keep them from storming the building, Logar governor's spokesman Den Mohammad Darwesh said. Two people were wounded. U.S. spokesman Col. Greg Julian denied any civilian fatalities and said militants opened fire after American and Afghan troops ordered them to surrender. "They were five armed militants that fired on a joint force ... when they went in to get a targeted individual," Julian said. "They called them out when they arrived, and these guys came out shooting and were killed in the process." A search of the compound found grenades and other weapons, a U.S. statement said. The fact that Afghan special forces participated in the raid is a significant step that helps insulate the U.S. military somewhat against charges of killing civilians. Afghan troops typically have not taken part in such operations in the past. After angry condemnations by President Hamid Karzai over the last several months on the issue of civilian deaths, the U.S. recently agreed to put Afghan forces on all of its missions, including sensitive overnight raids conducted by U.S. Special Operations Forces. Despite that step, the Ministry of Defense spokesman said he knew nothing about the raid. Darwesh said Logar's governor contacted U.S. officials in the province to ask for an explanation, but they responded that they did not know about it because it was conducted from the U.S. base at Bagram _ a reference to U.S. Special Operations Forces. Darwesh said a delegation that included provincial lawmakers visited the site of the raid and reported that all five people killed were civilians _ a mullah from Kabul and four farmers. Darwesh earlier identified the dead as a father and four of his adult sons. Discerning who is and is not a civilian has long been difficult in the Afghan conflict. Militants do not wear uniforms. Many civilians own guns and will fire them when foreign troops enter their villages at night. Local Afghan officials have been known to falsely claim that civilians were killed in an operation, either under pressure from militants or in hopes that villagers would be able to claim payment from the U.S. or Afghan government. However, U.S. officials have also been slow to acknowledge when American troops have killed Afghan civilians in past instances. Journalists and human rights monitors can rarely travel to remote battle sites to confirm information from officials. Close to 3,000 American soldiers arrived in Logar and the neighboring province of Wardak in January to secure the two regions on Kabul's doorstep. The troops were the first wave of American reinforcements this year. President Barack Obama has said he will send an additional 17,000 American forces to bolster the 38,000 already in the country. They will help secure violent regions in the south ahead of presidential elections later this year. Taliban and other militants have increased attacks during the last three years and now control wide swaths of countryside that NATO troops and Afghan forces can't protect. In other violence, the NATO-led coalition said one of its soldiers died in an insurgent attack Saturday in southern Afghanistan. No other information, including the soldier's nationality, was released. ___ Associated Press reporter Rahim Faiez contributed to this report. 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