KANDAHAR, MAY 28, SPA -- SUSPECTED TALIBAN FIGHTERSDETONATED A ROADSIDE BOMB NEAR AN AFGHAN POLICE PATROL, SPARKING AN HOUR-LONG GUN BATTLE THAT LEFT FOUR MILITANTS DEAD, POLICE SAID SUNDAY. FOUR POLICE SUFFERED WOUNDS IN THE BOMBING ON SATURDAY, WHICH SET OFF THE CLASH BETWEEN POLICE FORCES AND «DOZENS» OF MILITANTS IN CENTRAL AFGHANISTAN’S GHAZNI PROVINCE, SAID ABDUL REHMAN SURJUNG, THE REGIONAL POLICE CHIEF. POLICE SUFFERED NO CASUALTIES IN THE FIGHTING, HE WAS QUOTED AS SAYING BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. --SPA www.spa.gov.sa/364511