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| Western Withdrawal From Afghanistan Comes at Worst Time: Expert on Taliban |
| 2014-10-28 |
| [EN.RIA.RU] The Western pullout from Afghanistan is taking place at the time when the country needs international assistance most, a Pak journalist and expert on the Taliban told RIA Novosti on Monday. "The withdrawal of Western troops from Afghanistan comes at the worst possible moment, when there is a full-scale Taliban offensive aimed at capturing major territory in southern Afghanistan," Ahmed Rashid said, adding that the new government "needs all the support from the international community." The UK Defense Ministry announced on Monday that the country's armed forces had left the final camp in the Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... Province, in Afghanistan. The withdrawal occurs when the Afghan economy is going through a crisis and lack of funds as well as in the absence of a regional agreement for non-interference in Afghanistan by its many neighbors, the expert noted. Britannia has had a military presence in Afghanistan since October 2001, when troops deployed as part of the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... response to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom. A total of 453 British soldiers have been killed during the 13 years. About 34,000 NATO troops remain in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban insurgency alongside Afghan soldiers and police. NATO's combat mission will end in December. In September, Washington and Kabul signed an agreement formally justifying the presence of a limited US military contingent in Afghanistan, after new Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. was sworn into office. A follow-up force of some 10,000 troops is likely to stay throughout 2015 on training and support duties. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 He's got to be good at something, Airandee. >:-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2014-10-28 21:48 |
| #5 Sounds like Obama timed it perfectly. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2014-10-28 13:41 |
| #4 Yes. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-28 11:53 |
| #3 Ya think? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-10-28 07:34 |
| #2 Is Fat Bob Brown our old Big Throw Mouth? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-10-28 07:13 |
| #1 What Afghans (and all Muslims) need is genetic engineering---to enable them to empathize with non-relatives. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-28 04:30 |