[neverdem]

Dangerous Areas Expanding Across Southern Afghanistan oversize graphic

Afghan Police Struggle as Taliban Adapt slideshow

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/world/asia/02taliban.html?hp Use the regular webpage if you want to see the 2 minute video.

[mdittmar]

Hey nyt,it’s hard to adapt when your dead,ha!

[pawdoggie]

The setback is part of a bloody stalemate that has occurred between NATO troops and Taliban fighters across southern Afghanistan this summer. NATO and Afghan Army soldiers can push the Taliban out of rural areas, but the Afghan police are too weak to hold the territory after they withdraw. At the same time, the Taliban are unable to take large towns and have generally mounted fewer suicide bomb attacks in southern cities than they did last summer.

"Stalemate". Every time the Talibs mass they get mowed down in industrial numbers (up to 50+ per encounter). Most of the blood in the "bloody stalemate" is Taliban. The extent to which the Talibs have gained any "footholds" in rural areas can be traced to a former Brit NATO Commander who thought he could reach a modus vivendi with them, Karzai's attempts to reach out to his "fellow (Taliban) countrymen", and Iranian support to the Terrorists.

[balch3]

barf alert.

[God luvs America]

the NYSlimes call is “keep hope alive” as islamofacists are eliminated daily....