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"Harry Hope" |
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03 May 2006 10:23:10 AM |
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Republican Bush runs from another failure. |
From The New York Times, 5/3/06:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/world/asia/03afghan.html?ex=1304308800&en=17866c013ab6fcc4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Taliban Threat Is Said to Grow in Afghan South
By CARLOTTA GALL
TIRIN KOT, Afghanistan --
Building on a winter campaign of suicide bombings and assassinations
and the knowledge that American troops are leaving, the Taliban appear
to be moving their insurgency into a new phase, flooding the rural
areas of southern Afghanistan with weapons and men.
Each spring with the arrival of warmer weather, the fighting season
here starts up, but the scale of the militants' presence and their
sheer brazenness have alarmed Afghans and foreign officials far more
than in previous years.
"The Taliban and Al Qaeda are everywhere," a shopkeeper, Haji
Saifullah, told the commander of American forces in Afghanistan, Lt.
Gen. Karl Eikenberry, as the general strolled through the bazaar of
this town to talk to people.
"It is all right in the city, but if you go outside the city, they are
everywhere, and the people have to support them. They have no choice."
The fact that American troops are pulling out of southern Afghanistan
in the coming months, and handing matters over to NATO peacekeepers,
who have repeatedly stated that they are not going to fight
terrorists, has given a lift to the insurgents, and increased the
fears of Afghans.
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Typical Republican Bush failure. Kill Americans and Afghans, drop a
couple of turds, claim victory and run.
Harry
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| User: "ouroboros rex" |
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| Title: Re: Republican Bush runs from another failure. |
03 May 2006 03:12:40 PM |
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"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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From The New York Times, 5/3/06:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/world/asia/03afghan.html?ex=1304308800&en=17866c013ab6fcc4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Taliban Threat Is Said to Grow in Afghan South
By CARLOTTA GALL
TIRIN KOT, Afghanistan --
Building on a winter campaign of suicide bombings and assassinations
and the knowledge that American troops are leaving, the Taliban appear
to be moving their insurgency into a new phase, flooding the rural
areas of southern Afghanistan with weapons and men.
Each spring with the arrival of warmer weather, the fighting season
here starts up, but the scale of the militants' presence and their
sheer brazenness have alarmed Afghans and foreign officials far more
than in previous years.
"The Taliban and Al Qaeda are everywhere," a shopkeeper, Haji
Saifullah, told the commander of American forces in Afghanistan, Lt.
Gen. Karl Eikenberry, as the general strolled through the bazaar of
this town to talk to people.
"It is all right in the city, but if you go outside the city, they are
everywhere, and the people have to support them. They have no choice."
The fact that American troops are pulling out of southern Afghanistan
in the coming months, and handing matters over to NATO peacekeepers,
who have repeatedly stated that they are not going to fight
terrorists, has given a lift to the insurgents, and increased the
fears of Afghans.
___________________________________________________________
Typical Republican Bush failure. Kill Americans and Afghans, drop a
couple of turds, claim victory and run.
Harry
lol From today's Christian Science Monitor:
US does not consider Taliban terrorists
Even as the Taliban attacks US, Canadian, and British forces, organization
is left off terrorist list in 'political' decision.
By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com
When the US State Department issued its annual Country Reports on Terrorism
last Friday, it listed numerous state-sponsors of terrorism, like Iran, and
groups it considers foreign terrorist organizations, like Hamas, Al Qaeda,
and Hizbullah. Conspiciously absent from the lists, however, was the
Taliban.
In an article entitled "Terrorism's Dubious 'A' List," the non-partisan
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) reports that the religious extremist
organization has never been listed as a terrorist group by the US, Britain,
the EU, Canada, Australia, or any of the coalition partners, despite the
fact that during its six year rule in Afghanistan, it provided save haven
for Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, and currently is staging terrorist attacks
against coalition forces and waging a national campaign of intimidation and
fear.
The new report did designate the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region as a
terrorist "haven," however.
In a CFR Q&A on the Taliban, Chistopher Langdon, a defense expert at the
Institute for International Strategic Studies, describes the group as "an
insurgent organization that will periodically use terrorism to carry out its
operations."
According to Kathy Gannon, the former Associated Press bureau chief for
Pakistan and Afghanistan, these [Taliban] have at times aligned themselves
with Al Qaeda fighters and with mujahadeen (holy warriors) led by the
anti-government warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. During the Soviet occupation,
Hekmatyar received more support from US and Pakistani agents than any other
fighter. "The Afghan Taliban is better organized today than it was in 2001,"
says Gannon, "they have more recruits [and they] have been able to take
advantage of the lawlessness, the criminal gangs, and the corruption in the
government."
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0502/dailyUpdate.html?s=rel
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| User: "Rich Travsky" |
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| Title: "Taliban and Al Qaeda are everywhere" Re: Republican Bush runs fromanother failure. |
05 May 2006 10:20:47 AM |
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Harry Hope wrote:
From The New York Times, 5/3/06:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/world/asia/03afghan.html?ex=1304308800&en=17866c013ab6fcc4&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Taliban Threat Is Said to Grow in Afghan South
By CARLOTTA GALL
TIRIN KOT, Afghanistan --
Building on a winter campaign of suicide bombings and assassinations
and the knowledge that American troops are leaving, the Taliban appear
to be moving their insurgency into a new phase, flooding the rural
areas of southern Afghanistan with weapons and men.
Each spring with the arrival of warmer weather, the fighting season
here starts up, but the scale of the militants' presence and their
sheer brazenness have alarmed Afghans and foreign officials far more
than in previous years.
"The Taliban and Al Qaeda are everywhere," a shopkeeper, Haji
Saifullah, told the commander of American forces in Afghanistan, Lt.
Gen. Karl Eikenberry, as the general strolled through the bazaar of
this town to talk to people.
"It is all right in the city, but if you go outside the city, they are
everywhere, and the people have to support them. They have no choice."
The fact that American troops are pulling out of southern Afghanistan
in the coming months, and handing matters over to NATO peacekeepers,
who have repeatedly stated that they are not going to fight
terrorists, has given a lift to the insurgents, and increased the
fears of Afghans.
___________________________________________________________
Typical Republican Bush failure. Kill Americans and Afghans, drop a
couple of turds, claim victory and run.
HAPPY, RIGHTARDS?
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