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Afghanistan
Taliban warn of bloodiest year
2007-02-24
Rearmed with new guns the Taliban on Friday vowed this would be the deadliest year for foreign soldiers in Afghanistan since the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. “This year will prove to be the bloodiest for the foreign troops. It is not just a threat, we will prove it,” senior commander Mullah Dadullah told Reuters
Our 6,000 fighters are ready for attacks on foreign troops after the change in weather and as it becomes warmer.
by satellite phone. “The Taliban’s war preparations are going on in caves and in mountains. Our 6,000 fighters are ready for attacks on foreign troops after the change in weather and as it becomes warmer.”

Dadullah said the extra weapons the Taliban were being supplied — he did not say from where — included the ability to bring down the NATO and US helicopters crucial to their operations in this rugged, mountainous country.
Posted by:Fred

#6  And you'll be right out front leading the charge, won't you, Doodah?
Posted by: tu3031   2007-02-24 10:37  

#5  After it becomes warmer? The Brutal Afghan Winter(tm) must be a little rough on the Talibs.

Maybe because they're not Taliban in anything but name. Mostly foreigner cannon fodder fighters without proper acclimatization or territorial skills and links. It's tough being a stranger trying to get food without knowing the neighbors and no logistical support. You're just another bandit with a gun.

Sort of like in the late war stages like when the Germans started recruiting non-Aryans into SS formations.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-02-24 09:16  

#4  They don't have to win, or even break even. They just need to provide a pretext for fifth columnists like Murtha to undermine us from within.
Posted by: Jackal   2007-02-24 07:06  

#3  It is, if you can halt return to normalcy, and persuade the ennemy's homefront that all this is pointless and a Quagmire™. Besides, it's not as if the talibs and their backers care a lot about their own casualties, high natality, large pool of frustrated, unemployed young males and robots-churning madrasas are there to remedy to that, aren't they?
Posted by: anonymous5089   2007-02-24 05:25  

#2  attacks on foreign troops after the change in weather and as it becomes warmer.
After it becomes warmer? The Brutal Afghan Winter(tm) must be a little rough on the Talibs.

It has been a long time since I read Sun Tzu, but I don't recall him saying that dieing in great numbers was a way to victory.
Posted by: SteveS   2007-02-24 02:42  

#1  Doesn't this guy ever say anything other than "I'm gonna huff, and puff, and blow your house down"?
Posted by: whatadeal   2007-02-24 00:14  

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