Commander
05-11-2007, 07:54 AM
An interesting article here from Aljazeera Magazine about the current situation in Afghanistan. Surprisingly [sic], it’s not quite as rosy as what the “Canadian” media in particular, report.
story here (http://commandervnn.wordpress.com/)
original source link (http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=370)
Afghanistan : NATO and U.S. forces losing ground
More than five years after the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan that ousted the Taliban regime, Afghans say their lives have become more insecure.
“We have more bloodshed, more poverty and more grievances than during the Taliban’s time,” Haji Agha, a resident of Lashkargah, the provincial capital, told IRIN.
Taliban military chief Mullah Dadullah has been quoted recently as saying that thousands of Taliban fighters have been deployed across Afghanistan and are preparing to attack occupation bases as well as the puppet Afghan Government.
[…]
Over 4,000 people, a quarter of them civilians, according to Reuters, were killed last year.
Speaking to Commons committee, U.S. scholar Barnett Rubin and Gordon Smith painted a bleak image for the situation in Afghanistan.
Their remarks as well as remarks by Mullah Dadullah contradicted a statement made a few days earlier by Canada’s top military commander, Gen. Rick Hillier, who claimed that great progress is being made in Afghanistan.
[…]
“We have sent thousands of Taliban fighters to all Afghan cities for attacks on foreign troops and their Afghan puppets,” Dadullah said.
“We will turn our motherland into the graveyard of the U.S. forces and their families should wait for their dead bodies.”
“The Taliban’s war is only for the freedom of Afghanistan from the enemies of Muslims.”
story here (http://commandervnn.wordpress.com/)
original source link (http://www.aljazeera.com/cgi-bin/conspiracy_theory/fullstory.asp?id=370)
Afghanistan : NATO and U.S. forces losing ground
More than five years after the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan that ousted the Taliban regime, Afghans say their lives have become more insecure.
“We have more bloodshed, more poverty and more grievances than during the Taliban’s time,” Haji Agha, a resident of Lashkargah, the provincial capital, told IRIN.
Taliban military chief Mullah Dadullah has been quoted recently as saying that thousands of Taliban fighters have been deployed across Afghanistan and are preparing to attack occupation bases as well as the puppet Afghan Government.
[…]
Over 4,000 people, a quarter of them civilians, according to Reuters, were killed last year.
Speaking to Commons committee, U.S. scholar Barnett Rubin and Gordon Smith painted a bleak image for the situation in Afghanistan.
Their remarks as well as remarks by Mullah Dadullah contradicted a statement made a few days earlier by Canada’s top military commander, Gen. Rick Hillier, who claimed that great progress is being made in Afghanistan.
[…]
“We have sent thousands of Taliban fighters to all Afghan cities for attacks on foreign troops and their Afghan puppets,” Dadullah said.
“We will turn our motherland into the graveyard of the U.S. forces and their families should wait for their dead bodies.”
“The Taliban’s war is only for the freedom of Afghanistan from the enemies of Muslims.”