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| Taliban to US: Leave Afghanistan or face Soviet-style defeat |
| 2018-12-28 |
| [PRESSTV] The Taliban ...Arabic for students... myrmidon group has warned the United States it would face the same fate as the Soviet Union in the 1980s if it did not leave violence-wracked Afghanistan. Taliban front man Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement on Thursday that US forces face "humiliation" and could "learn a great deal" from the experience of their Cold War foe. "Take heed from the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and abandon thoughts of testing the mettle of the already proven Afghans," said the statement issued on the 39th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of the war-torn country. The Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, ending a decade-long occupation and precipitating a bloody civil war and the emergence of the Taliban and other myrmidon groups. Elsewhere in the statement, Taliban front man added that any future relations between the Taliban and the United States should be based on "sound diplomatic and economic principles" rather than conflict. |
| Posted by:Fred |