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2006-06-19 Afghanistan

Major Taliban Offensive Against Kandahar City?

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-19 15:45|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They certainly haven't had much luck in the rural areas.

Aerial map of Kandahar:

http://tinyurl.com/gr6u9

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-19 15:53|| 2006-06-19 15:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Ya, they are about as much as a threat to Kandahar as a rabid Chihuahua is to a buick.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-06-19 16:03|| 2006-06-19 16:03|| Front Page Top

#3 This sounds like journalist scuttlebutt to me. Wishfull thinking and a need for news that can be reported from the relative comfort of the city limits instead of having to put on a set of body armor and mount up with the coalition forces. The Taliwhackers have been taking such wicked beatings all across the tribal regions that they need to draw them away with crap like this.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-19 16:27|| 2006-06-19 16:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, please mass your forces away from your safe havens across the border.

Posted by Steve 2006-06-19 16:33|| 2006-06-19 16:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Tactically, it makes better sense than to stay out in the country, where they are dying like flies.

If the can count on support in a large slum area, where they can blend in, then concentrate at a given time to attack limited targets, they have a much better chance of success. Between times they threaten, harass and sponge off the locals, doing typical petty criminal stuff.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-19 16:39|| 2006-06-19 16:39|| Front Page Top

#6 It'll be the '68 Tet offensive all over again!

Posted by Bobby 2006-06-19 16:56|| 2006-06-19 16:56|| Front Page Top

#7 but Uncle Walter's replacements faces the net/blogs to counter traitorous and false reporting

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-19 19:33|| 2006-06-19 19:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Property prices have plummeted in recent months, and street markets have grown quieter as ordinary people leave the city.

New Orleans? Atlanta?

Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-19 19:38|| 2006-06-19 19:38|| Front Page Top

#9 HEY! Watch it, Besoeker, I resemble that remark (about the ATL). Actually, you're right until the last few years. Now there are so many diverse cultures in the suburbs (including a LOT of Mexican gang activity), that people are moving back into town. Unfortunately, a lot of them are of the PRIDE month persuasion, if you know what I mean. Of course, there are still very rough parts of ATL (and, almost ALL of N.O.), where I wouldn't show my face after sundown.

Posted by BA 2006-06-19 21:17|| 2006-06-19 21:17|| Front Page Top

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