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2005-09-04 Afghanistan/South Asia

Taliban regrouping to fight US, Tajiks unruly

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-09-04 01:26|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Time to hit some folks hard and heavy to remind them they are not the legends in their own minds they thing they are.

As far as "rouge elements" in the Pakistani intelligence services go I have to say BS. The actors are well know and not interfered with by the Government of Pakistan.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-04 05:44|| 2005-09-04 05:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Again?

This is starting to become an annual event. The Taliban try once again to get it up....

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-09-04 09:15|| 2005-09-04 09:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeap,SPOD.Time to tell these"Heros"to"Get with the program or get your affairs in order"As for these"rouge elements"I think it is well past time for hunter/killer teams to begin operations.If members of the"rouge elements"start dieing in gruesome,spectactular ways they just might get a clue(maybe,nobody ever accused them of being the most brillant pebble in the box).

Posted by raptor 2005-09-04 09:21|| 2005-09-04 09:21|| Front Page Top

#4 SPoD: "Rouge elements?" What about the mascara elements?

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-09-04 10:59|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-09-04 10:59|| Front Page Top

#5 The problem here is the warlords, not the Taliban.

The Talibs are forced into their tactics because they have no other choice. Smaller groups would be quickly killed by Afghan villagers, or turned over to police. Larger groups are instantly identified and exterminated.

The warlords, however, are the old, traditional Afghan model. Each vies to become the ruler of all Afghanistan, and each conspires to prevent the others from doing so. Until this old model can be permanently replaced by the central government, it will haunt their nation.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-09-04 11:36|| 2005-09-04 11:36|| Front Page Top

#6 This is confirmed by an Afghan source close to the Taliban, who cannot be named for fear of arrest

yep - the Taliban are back in control. Quagmire!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-04 13:36|| 2005-09-04 13:36|| Front Page Top

#7 It is the same problem as in Vietnam: US troops decisively win every engagement, but engagements steadily increase because of harborage of the enemy.

The difference between Afghanistan and Vietnam: the US is subsidizing the harboring elements in the Pakistan terrorist entity. No? Under Pakistan's federal provincial fiscal distribution model, the MMA-JI dictated provinces of Balochistan and NW Frontier, receive almost 14% of US aid. Don't deny it: for the first time in American history, American taxpayers are subsidizing the murder of American soldiers.

Tajikistan? US State Department emissaries coerced that government to respect freedom of conscience of Islamofascists. In Sept. 2002, US Ambassador to Pakistan, travelled to NWFP to praise the jihadi leadership for participation in ersatz "democratic" elections.

Posted by Vlad the Muslim Impaler 2005-09-04 14:34|| 2005-09-04 14:34|| Front Page Top

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