Baithak World Jun 20: Taliban in Kandahar, Pipe's Ploy, News & Views, KAL, Brodner, RealNews
Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmedi told Asia Times Online that a faction of the Taliban known as the Khalid bin Waleed group had entered Kandahar to carry out suicide attacks on strategic positions in the city. The Taliban are banking that, once the Taliban march into Kandahar, large sections of the Afghan National Army will defect and join hands with them. However, a former Taliban foreign minister, Ahmad Wakil Muttawakil, told Asia Times Online he believed the present aim of the Taliban was only to create terror, and not the fall of Kandahar city.
Asia Times Online has reported, however, after discussions with Taliban commanders, that this year the Taliban would carry out specific planned operations all across Afghanistan. This is in contrast to previous years when cadre flocked to southern Afghanistan in their thousands and were killed in the hundreds. That is, the Taliban have reverted to a calculated guerrilla war rather than trying and take on NATO's numbers. Taliban raise a storm in Kandahar by Syed Saleem Shahzad
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So here it is, the corrupt, incompetent, and lying Bush foreign policy in a nutshell. Four thousand soldiers dead, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, a shredded constitution, and world reputation later...here's our war on terror: chasing the fighter we created in Iraq and cutting deals to ignore them where they had been before 9/11. And get the final graph, a quote by him:
"'We will fight them with patience,' Maulavi Haqqani says on the DVD. 'This is not a battle of haste; this is a battle of patience. If a strong animal fights with a small and weak animal, the big animal uses all its power, not against the enemy, but against itself.'"
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posted by temporal at 6/21/2008
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