Reuters: Taliban will be broken by year-end: Afghan minister

[Eugene]

Taliban will be broken by year-end: Afghan minister

Reuters
Sunday, July 16, 2006; 8:37 PM

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - NATO and Afghan forces will be able to break the back
of Taliban resistance in southern Afghanistan before the end of this year,
the country's defense minister said in an interview published on Monday.

General Rahim Abdul Rahim Wardak told the Financial Times in Kabul Afghan
intelligence had learned that the Taliban's command and control structure was
fragmenting due to heavy losses and many mid-ranking commanders were fleeing
to safety in Pakistan.

"I think that in the next two or three months there will be some major changes,"
Wardak said, predicting that by November Taliban militants would have lost steam.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/16/AR2006071600813.html

[Corgigal]

1. OH shut up

No one believes this shit anymore. Why did the Post waste the space?

[dipsydoodle]

14. Guess they're on the poppies too.

:)

[jobycom]

2. Same thing every war: "They'll be home by Christmas."

[pinniped]

3. Taliban, or whoever they are fighting, has many backs.

.

[barb162]

4. That'a teeny bit pie-in-the-sky

ya' think?

[saltpoint]

5. "We've turned the corner!" "They'll greet us with roses!"

"Everything's peachy!"

Okey-doke. Pardon my incredulity but I'm not seeing anything resembling peace in Afghanistan just yet.

[Sherman A1]

11. Well Said

I wonder if we can continue to afford all these great victories?

[saltpoint]

12. That's right. And I worry about our troops' mental health after

their tours of duty end and they return.

They deserve a lot more support from Bush then than they're getting now.

[tuvor]

6. *sniff* *sniff* Smells like "last throes".

Pee-yoo.

[countmyvote4real]

7. With the help of the restored religious police? I think not. n/t

[Freedom_from_Chains]

8. Yippie, another "Mission Accomplished."

They just seem to be rolling in weekly these days.

[EFerrari]

9. That only leaves the North, the East and the West!

:(

[Lasher]

10. I hate summer re-runs.

I've seen this episode before.

[better2know]

13. After the Harvest -they will melt into the hills

Poppies
Heroin
Blood sucking the world's desperate
Money
More Weapons
Repeat in spring

[LynnTheDem]

15. Who needs Taliban, when they have bush's puppet?

Fury as Karzai Plans Return of Taliban's Religious Police

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1181612.ece

[leesa]

16. By their own police force...

[Jackpine Radical]

17. What, are the Saudis late again with Osama's remittance money?

[WhiteTara]

18. Didn't the Russians say the same thing

in the 80's? These war mongers are crazy and should all be shut away on some island together to fight it out.

[Barrett808]

19. But, but: Fury as Karzai Plans Return of Taliban's Religious Police

Fury as Karzai Plans Return of Taliban's Religious Police--Independent
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2394139&mesg_id=2394139