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| Afghanistan |
| Major Taliban Offensive Against Kandahar City? |
| 2006-06-19 |
| There are signs that insurgents in Afghanistan are planning to attack Kandahar city, an indication the Taliban still threaten the provincial capital after weeks of fighting nearby. Fighters are making preparations for an assault inside the city limits in the next three to four months, according to two sources with connections to the Taliban. By one account, fighters are stockpiling guns and hiding out in Loy Wiyala, a vast slum in the city's north end. In an audio recording of a telephone conversation obtained by The Globe and Mail, a Taliban commander warns a friend who was thinking about moving his family to a house in Kandahar that the insurgents are lurking near the city's outskirts. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #9 HEY! Watch it, Besoeker, I resemble that remark (about the ATL). Actually, you're right until the last few years. Now there are so many diverse cultures in the suburbs (including a LOT of Mexican gang activity), that people are moving back into town. Unfortunately, a lot of them are of the PRIDE month persuasion, if you know what I mean. Of course, there are still very rough parts of ATL (and, almost ALL of N.O.), where I wouldn't show my face after sundown. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-06-19 21:17 |
| #8 Property prices have plummeted in recent months, and street markets have grown quieter as ordinary people leave the city. New Orleans? Atlanta? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-06-19 19:38 |
| #7 but Uncle Walter's replacements faces the net/blogs to counter traitorous and false reporting |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-19 19:33 |
| #6 It'll be the '68 Tet offensive all over again! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2006-06-19 16:56 |
| #5 Tactically, it makes better sense than to stay out in the country, where they are dying like flies. If the can count on support in a large slum area, where they can blend in, then concentrate at a given time to attack limited targets, they have a much better chance of success. Between times they threaten, harass and sponge off the locals, doing typical petty criminal stuff. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-06-19 16:39 |
| #4 Oh, please mass your forces away from your safe havens across the border. |
| Posted by: Steve 2006-06-19 16:33 |
| #3 This sounds like journalist scuttlebutt to me. Wishfull thinking and a need for news that can be reported from the relative comfort of the city limits instead of having to put on a set of body armor and mount up with the coalition forces. The Taliwhackers have been taking such wicked beatings all across the tribal regions that they need to draw them away with crap like this. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-06-19 16:27 |
| #2 Ya, they are about as much as a threat to Kandahar as a rabid Chihuahua is to a buick. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-06-19 16:03 |
| #1 They certainly haven't had much luck in the rural areas. Aerial map of Kandahar: http://tinyurl.com/gr6u9 |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-06-19 15:53 |