Taliban pouring into Afghanistan from Pakistan, U.S. general says

[salin]

Taliban pouring into Afghanistan from Pakistan, U.S. general says

By MATT KELLEY

The Associated Press
9/7/03 3:57 PM


GARDEZ, Afghanistan (AP) -- Taliban fighters, paid and trained by al-Qaida, are pouring into Afghanistan from Pakistan, the top American commander in Afghanistan said Sunday.

Lt. Gen. John Vines said the Taliban were trying to regroup and regain control of the country they ruled until ousted by the United States in late 2001. His comments to reporters traveling with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld were the first confirmation from a top U.S. military official of reports of a Taliban resurgence out of Pakistan into Afghanistan.

American, Afghan and coalition forces have responded with military operations against the radical Islamic fighters. As many as 200 Taliban have been killed this week alone, Vines said.

More -- http://www.nj.com/breakingnews/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0491_BC_US-Afghanistan&&news&tradecentercrash

[varun]

1. American "Ally" Pakistan

is creating Jihadis by the millions...to attack its own "Master".

[BiggJawn]

2. Duh!.....

Since when we last saw Mullah Ohmar, he was high-tailing it East towards Pakistan on a dirt bike, just exactly WHERE does General Vines EXPECT them to come from?

Oh, yeah, Mission Accomplished THERE, too....

Another Wolfowitz/Perle/Rumsferatu production...

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. It's whats called "Squeezing A Balloon"

You push them down here and they pop up over there.
What would this stupid ass general have us do anyway? Perhaps send in 5 or 10 million men and lock the shithole down for a while? For what? the city of Kabul??? No thanks, we can get all the rugs we need from the Navajos instead.

The Russians were just down this path, but this country is too stupid to know any better.

[maggrwaggr]

4. so if Al Queda really did commit 9/11 .... why didn't we invade Pakistan?

This is where I first started to suspect Shrub. Suddenly we pulled back, never actually invaded, never went into Pakistan, kissed Mushareff's ass .......

and I started going "what the F?" It just didn't make sense.

Months later, I'm at DU convinced of at least LIHOP and probably MIHOP.

And to think I supported the initial attack on Afghanistan!

If we were serious about fighting terrorism and getting the guys who did 9/11 ..... and if the administration wasn't lying .... we'd have half a million or more troops on the ground in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and whereever the hell else we needed to be over there, to hell with what anybody thought about it. And we'd have our allies helping us out, too.

But noooooooooo........

Cause it's all BS

[Turley]

5. Uh,

because it would quickly become a nuclear war? Just a thought.