Taliban capture third western Afghan district

Source: Reuters

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban insurgents have captured a third district in western Afghanistan, local officials said on Monday, defying Western assertions the rebels are unable to mount large military offensives.

The hardline Islamist Taliban relaunched their insurgency two years ago to topple the pro-Western Afghan government and eject the 50,000 foreign troops, expanding their operations further from the mainly Pashtun south where they are strongest.

Western forces say the Taliban's greater reliance this year on suicide and roadside bombs is a result of heavy battlefield casualties they and Afghan troops have inflicted on the rebels and the insurgents' inability to hold ground.

But in the last week, the Taliban have captured three districts in the western province of Farah, bordering Iran, forcing lightly armed Afghan police to flee and defying Afghan and foreign forces to retake the lost ground.



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"I mean, the Tallybansters are Evil Doers and all that, fer sure, but not TOO evil if they don't mess with our occult drug trade, you know what I mean, wink wink, smirk, smirk."

- Commander AWOL

AFGHANISTAN: Displaced families in Farah need urgent help

KABUL, 4 November 2007 (IRIN) - Hundreds if not thousands of recently displaced people in southwest Afghanistan are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance and protection, displaced families and provincial aid workers told IRIN on 4 November.

Due to insecurity, there are no reliable figures on the exact number of people who have abandoned their in the Gulistan and Bakwa districts of Farah Province and sought temporary refuge in other parts of the isolated province.

However, Aleem Siddique, a spokesman for the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan UNAMA), said "about 500 families might have been displaced" as a result of fighting.

Afghan officials, including President Hamid Karzai, have acknowledged that Taliban insurgents have overrun at least two districts in Farah Province.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/19733c71472929171c24474ccba2f79c.htm

record numbers with almost two months left to go.

http://www.icasualties.org/oef/

The monsters called the Taliban need to be wiped off the face of the earth, LITERALLY.

Disgusting POS armed zealots who reduce women to little more then child bearing livestock. And I do mean that literally. Under them women cannot work, they cannot leave their homes without a father, husband or brother (if they don't have one, oh well) no education, no medical care of any kind unless closely related to a doctor, no music, no laughter, no makeup, no part of their body allowed to be seen, no footsteps allowed to be heard, and of course no conversation with men not of their family. Death is the punishment for being raped or for the crime of loving someone who has not bought you from your family like a cow.

No one chooses to live like that. To die of starvation or minor illness in their homes.

The conditions you cite as being the lot of women in Afghanistan is typical of what women face throughout the Muslim world. So why not invade the entire Muslim world?

- B

and because most of the Afgani people want them out. But when they have heroin money behind them then they have the weapons and not the local populous. The Taliban are a great deal worse then any other group. Unless you know of another country where medical attention is forbidden to females or where women are made to stay in their homes and starve if there is no male in the home unless they have a kind neighbor who is wiling to bring food. This is not an isolated case. Many women have no men at home due to the decades of war their country has seen.

After they pulled that shit w/ the Buddhas I knew they were beyond redemption and understanding. That alone didn't warrant any kind of military action, but when they stupidly refused to hand over Bin Laden, much less cooperate in an effort against Al Qaeda, I was glad they invited their own destruction.

...it was a nice demonstration of the lesson of impermanence.

the situation in Afghanistan. The Taliban are a primarily Pashtu ethnic movement. They rose to prominence because the warlords that preceded them were far worse for the average Aghan civilian than the Taliban proved to be. Before the Taliban took power in all but the northernmost Afghan provinces, Afghan women were subject to wanton rape by members of the various warlords' militia.

Whatever you can say about the Taliban's misogynistic legacy, the incidence of rape of Afghan women and the incidence of poppy production both dropped dramatically under their rule.

Good thang Afghanistan is "an example for Iraq".

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