Hundreds of Taliban assault police post

[sabra]

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0724Afghanistan24-ON.html

Hundreds of Taliban assault police post

KABUL, Afghanistan - Hundreds of Taliban fighters attacked a western Afghan government building with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns Monday, killing three police officers and wounding seven in one of the militia's boldest strikes in the long-quiet region.

The attack in Farah province could reflect a drive by militants to expand their fight against Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces beyond insurgency-wracked southern and eastern provinces.

The battle came amid a flurry of suicide attacks, roadside bombings and shootings across the country. advertisement

Four suspected suicide attackers riding on two explosives-laden motorbikes in Farah province were killed after they were challenged by police while driving through the provincial capital late Sunday, said Gen. Sayed Aga Saqib, the provincial police chief.

[Drum]

1. I'm sorry...I spilled beer on my scorecard....

Didn't Rumsfeld et al say we'd defeated this sort of thing, these Taliban?
Aren't our soldiers over there promotin' freedom?
:shrug:

[ugarte]

2. Afghanistan is so five-minutes-ago. We've moved on...nt

[Bush_MUST_Go]

3. Afghaniwho?

Didn't Rummy say there weren't enough hard targets to make staying in Afghanistan worthwhile?

Isn't that why we went to Iraq.... to find better stuff to blow up?

Besides, the Taliban hides in Pakistan & they're our good & close ally so it's better to pretend they're not really a problem.

[Yupster]

4. Pakistan is the problem

As long as an insurgency has a safe haven to retreat to and reform, it can never be wiped out.

Pakistan doesn't seem to show any willingness to take control of its tribal regions, and in that case there's no way to ever win that one. The best that can be hoped for is to keep the fighting low-levl and on the fringes of the country endlessly.

Truly a mess as going into the tribal regions in a major military way might mean the fall of the Pakistani government and another rtadical Islamic government, this one already with the bomb.

It's quite the mess.