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| Taliban's new commando force tests Afghan army's strength |
| 2016-08-07 |
| [FOXNEWS] A new elite Taliban force is proving its strength in the strategic southern province of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , pointing to the krazed killers' ability to refine their battlefield techniques to match Afghanistan's increasingly professional national army. The Taliban regard Helmand as their heartland. They share Pashtun ethnicity with its residents and the province's vast opium output has helped fund the war against the government in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... , now in its fifteenth year. In recent weeks, the Taliban have taken huge swaths of the province and now they appear to be closing in on the capital, Lashkar Gah. Afghan officials in Helmand say the army is facing an krazed killer fighting force that is better-organized and more skilled than ever. They say the Taliban have been sending men into the fight who appear to be members of a commando-like unit, believed to consist of several hundred elite fighters. A senior Taliban capo confirmed the existence of the new, highly-trained force. Speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media, the commander said the force numbered "around 300 fighters now, after starting out with 200." The new commando unit is called Sara Khitta, which means Red Group or Danger Group in Pashto. "This kind of force is giving us very good results, and we have been discussing whether or not we should deploy this sort of unit more widely," he said. The Taliban would give no further details, and military officials refused to discuss the subject. But civilian officials in Helmand said the force is led by a commander known as Haji Nasar, former operational head of the Taliban operating in Kandahar and Zabul provinces. |
| Posted by:Fred |