Musharraf: Taliban gaining power

[IndianaGreen]

More evidence that we are going to lose Afghanistan as we did Iraq:

Musharraf: Taliban gaining power

Pakistan's president calls on Afghanistan to take action
From Syed Mohsin Naqvi
CNN

Friday, July 21, 2006 Posted: 0017 GMT (0817 HKT)

LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) -- Fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar remained in control of his Afghan Islamic militia, which was gaining strength in the south of the country, Pakistan's president said Thursday.

General Pervez Musharraf said the growing strength of the Taliban, which ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until the U.S.-led invasion that followed al Qaeda's 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, was having negative effects in Pakistan.

He demanded that Afghanistan's government take immediate steps to stop the infiltration of fighters across the border, warning that the spread of violence could threaten Pakistan.

In contrast, he said, the leadership of the al Qaeda terrorist network, which the Taliban allowed to operate from its territory before the invasion, was on the run and weak.

Omar, along with al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, escaped U.S. forces when the Taliban fell in December 2001. But U.S. and allied troops continue to battle Taliban fighters in southern and eastern Afghanistan, and Pakistan's efforts to crack down on Islamic militants along the border has provoked resistance to government troops in the tribal regions of northwest Pakistan.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/20/afghanistan.omar/index.html

[bemildred]

1. Didn't Mushhead used to be buddies with Taliban?

Why is he belaboring the obvious here, anyway?

[IndianaGreen]

2. I think he is worried about his own hide

and that he might end up like former Afghan President Najibullah.

Afghan rebels seize capital, hang former president
September 27, 1996
Web posted at: 11:00 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT)

Crowds of Afghans cheered at the sight of Najibullah's beaten and bloated body hanging outside the presidential palace. The war-weary residents were apparently hopeful that Friday's takeover would end factional fighting. Najibullah's communist regime was overthrown in 1992.

"We killed him because he was the murderer of our people," Noor Hakmal, a Taliban commander, said.

Dangling next to Najibullah was his brother, former security chief Shahpur Ahmedzi.

The Taliban, which began as a movement of former Islamic seminary students, now controls two-thirds of the country. The rebels want to impose their strict version Islamic rule in Afghanistan -- which includes keeping women mostly in the home, closing girls' schools and imposing harsh criminal punishments.

The executions capped the victory of Taliban rebels, who have fought to oust the regime of Najibullah's successor, President Burhanuddin Rabbani (no relation to the Taliban leader).

http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9609/27/afghan.rebels/index.html

[bemildred]

4. Well he should be. He's lasted an amazingly long time already.

You have to give him credit, in a way.

[tabasco]

3. Not possible! He must be lying!

Lord God Bush said on 27 Sept, 2004:

"And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no longer is in existence. And the people of Afghanistan are now free."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/09/20040927-4.html

:shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug::shrug:

[hadrons]

5. but, but we;ve defeated the Taliban and freed the people already ...

get on script people :sarcasm:

[Bush_MUST_Go]

6. All bush did was push the Taliban & al Qaeda into Pakistan.

Then declared "the enemy is on the run" & Afghanistan is a job well done.

Then he was able to rush into Iraq.

How much longer before he abandons Iraq for his next war front?

[unda cova brutha]

7. we should abandon both Iraq and Afganistan right now

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