Revived Taliban waging 'full-blown insurgency'

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-19-taliban-afghanistan-cover_x.htm?csp=1


Revived Taliban waging 'full-blown insurgency'
Updated 6/20/2006 9:52 AM ET

By Paul Wiseman, USA TODAY
PANJWAI DISTRICT, Afghanistan — In their biggest show of strength in nearly five years, pro-Taliban fighters are terrorizing southern Afghanistan — ambushing military patrols, assassinating opponents and even enforcing the law in remote villages where they operate with near impunity.

"We are faced with a full-blown insurgency," says Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia.

Four and a half years after they overthrew the Islamic militia that had controlled much of Afghanistan, U.S.-led forces have been forced to ramp up the battle to stabilize this impoverished, shattered country. More than 10,000 U.S., Canadian, British and Afghan government troops are scouring southern and eastern Afghanistan in a campaign called Operation Mountain Thrust.

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Even before fighting heated up this spring, Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, warned Congress that the insurgents "represent a greater threat" to the pro-U.S. government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai "than at any point since late 2001.".........

which is what is required to get through the thick skulls of the civilian overlords

applied to the U.S. Military.

How long will it be before this "insurgency" becomes a full blown war again?

We live in the era of delayed reaction.

Moron* chose to ignore Afghanistan to fight his* fucked up iraqi war. And guess what? Afghanistan never really went away. It just sort of got glossed over.

Osama bin Who?

The water is heating up again, but this time, there is no one around to say, "is it just me, or is it getting hot in here?"

colossal racist chickenshit failure*

LOL




Lackey and Puppet in green dress

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Ordinary Afghans won't risk their lives to support Karzai's government, which many view as weak and corrupt. Afghanistan's problem is "not necessarily the strong enemy," Eikenberry said in Washington last month. "It's the very weak institutions of the state."

The government also is widely seen as corrupt and dominated by warlords linked to the bloody civil war during the 1990s. "Day by day, corruption, bribery and narcotics go up," says Noor ul-Haq Ulumi, a member of the Afghan parliament from Kandahar. "Weak governors we have every place. They think only about their benefit, not their country's benefit."
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http://www.ogrish.com/archives/assahab_ied_on_humvee_in_laghman_afghanistan_Jun_19_2006.html


...The video shows nothing bloody or gruesome.

we spent our bundle in iraq.

afganistan could have been our demonstration democracy for muslims, but no, we had to free the oil.

Who are you going to believe, some Pakistani journalist and author or our own administration, faultless, loyal, brave and true blue? Okay, there's some General who sort of agrees, but you just wait: Chimpy will fly into Kabul, piloting Air Force One through the ack-ack to land safely and bestow freedom and democracy on a grateful Afghan populace! Flowers and chocolates all around! Yay!