• Thanks for stopping by. Logging in to a registered account will remove all generic ads. Please reach out with any questions or concerns.

Taliban turn their focus on cities.

Bigmac

Full Member
Inactive
Reaction score
0
Points
210
        It would appear that the Taliban, for now, are only going to try to maintain control of the rural ground that they have currently attained. They are going to push out small cells of young jihadists into the cities to distract NATO and then they will try to take more ground rurally. Interesting tactic, but hopefully it will backfire on them.
        If they really do have sympathizers in key roles within the government then they should be flushed out now!

South Asia

May 19, 2007

Taliban turn their focus on cities


By Syed Saleem Shahzad

KARACHI - With the killing of leading Taliban field commander Mullah Dadullah by US-led forces last weekend, reports of the death of the spring insurgency in Afghanistan are rife.

A North Atlantic Treaty Organization spokesperson has already been quoted as saying that the situation in Kandahar province has improved compared with last year and the only task that remains is to control restive Helmand province.

It is not as clear-cut as this, though, and despite what NATO might say, there has been a recent upsurge of violence in Kandahar and plans for a mass uprising remain on course, although the death of Dadullah has been a psychological blow to the Taliban.

Secret Taliban cells inside Kandahar, in connivance with sympathizers in the Afghan administration - right under the noses of NATO forces -are surfacing in the city, and NATO planes can do little about it.
more on link: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IE19Df02.html
 
Secret Taliban cells inside Kandahar, in connivance with sympathizers in the Afghan administration - right under the noses of NATO forces -are surfacing in the city, and NATO planes can do little about it

:rofl:

oh my god that is funny.

Check your back Mr Tommy Taliban...
 
    I wouldn't be so quick to laugh this off SMMT. As you are aware many in the Afghanistan parliament are former warlords, druglords and Taliban suporters. Supposedly they are all now reformed and committed to the new government?? These same stellar individuals tried to pass a motion in Feb giving themselves immunity for any past crimes. How can anyone be sure they are not playing both sides of the fence?
 
I think SMMT has every right to laugh, it's just like the spring offensive...all talk no action. As is the common thread in just about all articles in reference to such things.

Grain of truth, maybe something to seriously be worried about yeah I don't think so.

 
More than 35 killed, over 35 wounded in bomb attack on police bus in Kabul

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A bomb ripped through a police bus in a crowded civilian area in the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing more than 35 people and wounding over 35 others, officials and witnesses said.

An Interior Ministry official said that more than 35 people were killed in the attack. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of ministry policy.

Dr. Fazel Rahim, from a nearby hospital, said 18 dead bodies lay in the hospital courtyard, while more than 35 wounded were being treated inside the building.

"Most of the wounded are in serious condition," said Rahim, whose hands and white coat were covered in blood.

The police bus was carrying several police recruits when the bomb went off inside it, said Zalmai Khan, the deputy police chief of Kabul province.

The thunderous explosion was heard throughout central Kabul at about 8:10 a.m. local time.

The roof of the bus was blown off and officers were pulling a number of bodies from the wreckage, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.

The explosion twisted the bus into a charred skeleton, and bloody unidentifiable body parts littered the area as far as 27 metres from the bus. Hundreds of police and investigators were inspecting the scene.

Wali Mohammad, an eyewitness who was driving his car just behind the bus, said "there were a lot killed and wounded, both police and civilian."

Mohammad said that he "saw a big fire and dust in front of me."

The blast happened at a crowded bus station, used by both police and civilians, near the Kabul governor's house.

Police and other Afghan security officials are commonly targeted by insurgents because they are seen as tools of the U.S.-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.

At least 307 Afghan security officials have been killed in violence so far this year, according to figures from the U.S., U.N., NATO and Afghan authorities.

http://www.recorder.ca/cp/World/070617/w061703A.html
 
Back
Top