Afghanistan gripped by worst fighting since 2001

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Two French special forces troops and a US soldier were among 34 combatants killed in Afghanistan in a fresh upsurge of the deadliest fighting since the removal of the Taliban in 2001. In the worst clash, militants hiding in a vineyard ambushed an Afghan army convoy, shooting dead four soldiers but losing 15 of their own.

Fears of a resurgence of the Taliban have been fuelled by a sharp rise in violence during recent weeks, much of it in Helmand province, where 3,300 British troops are deploying. Some 120 people died in 24 hours last week before a brief respite, but attacks resumed on Friday, claiming another 34 lives by Saturday afternoon.

The two French died yesterday while fighting the Taliban in Kandahar province, the French Defence Ministry said. It gave no further details. France has had 200 special forces officers in south-eastern Afghanistan since 2003 as part of the US-led coalition.

The American soldier was killed and six others wounded on Friday in Uruzgan province, also in the south, when a joint patrol with Afghan forces encountered enemy fighters. Uruzgan had seen some of the heaviest fighting within the past year, but militants suffered high losses in battles with coalition forces. Helmand, the main opium poppy-growing region, where drug profits are believed to fund the insurgency, has become the main focus of violence, but the past week has also seen attacks in Zabul province and the western city of Herat.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article549507.ece

[Oversea Visitor]

1. The people wants their own goverment

Sorry but the present Afghanistan Goverment really not their.
It is one impose on them by other country.

The people there will fight as long as there is interference.
The present Afghanistan Goverment will collapse once the International troops withdraw
That is a FACT.

The international forces can stay but they will have to accept that the fight will continue.
Even in a hundred years they will continue fighting.

This goverment impose at barrel of guns.
Would you accept a goverment control by other country or would you fight.

[ecoalex]

2. With the backwardness of Afghanistan especially rural

They want the Taleban to return. hay the Russians had he sam thing.Religion rules ignorance abounds, and the men are happy, it's backward living, thanks Allah.

[Oversea Visitor]

4. The Taliban are freedom fighters

They fought the Russian. They are not Al Quaeda. Of course OBL who is not an Afhgan was there to help funded by the CIA.

How they ended up being branded terrorist I dont know. Taliban are just freedom fighters for Afghanistan and is not involve in any other conflict.

Of course when they boot the Russian out it is only natural that they assume control.
Sadly the process of an evolution towards a better form of Goverments once they acheive victory was destroyed by the invasion of Afhganistan by the US. Again the premise of the attack was based on handling over OBL. As we now all know OBL was not important. TORA BORA is the reason. So thousand die, country destroy just for OBL and then ?????.

So now the Taliban again take up the fight for freedom. Of course now they faced the Americans and the Nato forces. Why one has to ask are they allowed to determine their own form of Goverment.
Why must a goverment be forced onto them at a barrel of a gun.

This are very simple view. Of course one can always say that one is helping them to establish a good goverment. Oh yeah the people there are stupid they dont know how to chose a good goverment. See they not human they are muslim terrorist. Blah blah blah.

Does it matter. The people will decide. And they will fight as long as they dont like the choice force on them. So the war for freedom begins and will continue until the defeat of the occupation force. What send in troops. Why not just withdraw and let them decide. Why not after that help them rebuild. Why why can not go this way. Why must use guns to protect goverment not of their choice.
WHY?

[ecoalex]

3. We're not ready for freedom

Hey most want the Taleban to return. Hay ,the Russians had the same thing, and lost.Religion rules ignorance abounds, and the men are happy, it's backward living, thanks Allah.

[acmavm]

5. If the administration in power at this time gets its way there will be

a number of country's that won't have any say in their government, what form it takes, or who its officials are.

The neocons have an agenda. That agenda is to remake and remoded each and every government to their liking. World domination is the term that comes closest to defining their agenda.

In other words they're batshit crazy and dangerous.