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sabang · 01-10-2007, 12:07 PM

Oh dear, looks like the Taliban have gone all hard line again, or is it just invective prior to holding talks?

Taliban reject overture from Afghanistan's government

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: The Taliban will "never" negotiate with the Afghan authorities until U.S. and NATO forces leave the country, a spokesman for the group said Sunday, again rebuffing an overture for peace talks from President Hamid Karzai.

Karzai had said Saturday that he would be willing to meet personally with the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, and give militants a position in the government in exchange for peace.

Karzai's peace overture came as insurgency-related violence continued to climb. Thirty people, mostly army soldiers, were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a military bus Saturday in Kabul.

The death toll this week includes more than 165 militants killed during two battles between the Taliban and joint Afghan-coalition forces, and the 30 soldiers and civilians killed in the Kabul suicide bombing.

Militant attacks and military operations have killed more than 4,600 people so far this year, most of them insurgents, according to the AP count.

Full article-
Taliban reject overture from Afghanistan's government - International Herald Tribune

Boon Mee · 03-02-2008, 02:29 AM

Nobody’s saying who fired the missile that got him, but top Al Qaeda freakazoid Abu Laith al-Libi is now officially a dead terrorist. More to follow...heh

Al-Qaida commander in Afghanistan killed - Yahoo! News

sabang · 18-12-2007, 01:11 AM

Allies losing Afghanistan war, Australian minister warns: report Australia's new government has warned NATO and its allies they will lose the war against hardline Taliban forces in Afghanistan unless they urgently change tactics, a report said Monday.

The country's new Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon issued the stark warning at a meeting in Edinburgh last week of eight nations engaged in the conflict, including the United States, The Australian newspaper said...

The minister's comments to the closed-door gathering were based on classified intelligence assessments prepared for the previous Australian government of John Howard which painted a bleak picture of the Afghan conflict.

"The previous government would have us believe that good progress is being made in Afghanistan. The reality is quite a different one," Fitzgibbon told The Australian after returning from the meeting in Britain.

"We are winning the battles and not the war, in my view. We have been very successful in clearing areas of the Taliban but it's having no real strategic effect," he said.

Allies losing Afghanistan war, Australian minister warns: report - Breaking News - World - Breaking News

Nothing new in Afghanistan it seems.

sabang · 31-01-2008, 07:49 AM

More of the same

:-

Afghanistan is on the brink of becoming a "failed state", according to a new report, which also says the international mission to stabilise the country is "faltering."

The Afghanistan Study Group report, released on Wednesday, also warned that without a Nato troops the government of Hamad Karzai, the Afghan president, is likely to "fall apart".

The report warned "the mission to stabilize Afghanistan is faltering" amid renewed violence, rising opium production and falling confidence in the Afghan government and its international partners.

It warned that several Nato countries were "wavering" over their troop commitments to the mission....

All 26 Nato nations have soldiers serving with the allied forces in Afghanistan, which currently stands at 42,000 troops.

Military commanders say they remain hamstrung by restrictions that some nations place on what their troops can do.

Al Jazeera English - News - Us Report Warns Of Afghan Failure

I think this Karzai governments days are numbered. Also-

Canada warns of Afghan withdrawal

Canada will pull its troops out of Afghanistan in February 2009 unless Nato sends more troops to the dangerous south of the country, the prime minister has said...

Harper's Conservative administration is under pressure to withdraw its 2,500 troops from Kandahar, a former Taliban stronghold, after the deaths of 78 soldiers and a diplomat...

Britain, Canada, the Netherlands and others, alongside the US, have borne the brunt of a resurgent Taliban campaign of violent attacks...

Full article- Al Jazeera English - News - Canada Warns Of Afghan Withdrawal

keda · 31-01-2008, 09:05 AM

Parallels with Iraq no doubt.

Reaper · 03-02-2008, 10:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by keda

Parallels with Iraq no doubt.

US Military strategy I don't think has changed since the Civil War. The new modern warfare is not a question of how many tanks or buildings you can destroy, it is about how many locals you can change. It is about shifting ideologies and there they have not really excelled.

raycarey · 03-02-2008, 12:31 PM

yet another AQ #3, eh?

Boon Mee · 03-02-2008, 09:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raycarey

yet another AQ #3, eh?

Whittling them down one by one...

blackgang · 03-02-2008, 02:23 PM

see there Booners,, Ray Baby said he fired that missle, ain't he a brave boy, don't ya wish he was your son?

raycarey · 03-02-2008, 02:42 PM

putting aside for a moment that you claim to have me on 'ignore'

....

what does this quote even mean?

Quote:

Originally Posted by blackgang

see there Booners,, Ray Baby said he fired that missle, ain't he a brave boy, don't ya wish he was your son?

whatever, it really doesn't matter....carry on.

although i'd like to recommend that you put down the twist top wine--it's only 2:30 in the afternoon.

blackgang · 03-02-2008, 10:37 PM

Booners, is that called incest when Ray puts his face in your open fly??

Whats new in Afghanistan?03-02-2008 09:53 PMBoon MeeIf I knew I'd have a son that turned out like him, I'd a gone out in the woods and jacked off on a stump and let the ants eat him...

keda · 04-02-2008, 01:01 AM

A prim and proper Western democratic mindset scores no points in dealing with savages.

Boon Mee · 09-02-2008, 03:43 AM

The only American (so far) who has been indited for Treason since 9/11 may be dead. No tears for him here...

The Jawa Report: American al Qaeda, Adam Gadahn, Dead?

raycarey · 11-02-2008, 02:12 PM

Quote:

Whats new in Afghanistan?

well, what's relatively new is that the US govt. is trying to blame its failure there on NATO, when it should be looking inward for the root cause of the failure---particularly at the vice president's office.

by diverting resources to iraq, they now have two failures on their hands....and no end in sight.

raycarey · 18-02-2008, 01:23 PM

Quote:

Whats new in Afghanistan?

new?

well, 80 people got blown to smithereens yesterday.

Afghan suicide blast kills 80 - Afghanistan - MSNBC.com

imagine if the GWB wasn't duped by rummy and cheney into sending 160,000 american troops in to iraq....those 80 people would quite likely be alive right now, and the karzai govt. wouldn't be hanging by a thread.

Boon Mee · 18-02-2008, 06:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by raycarey

Quote:

Whats new in Afghanistan?

new?

well, 80 people got blown to smithereens yesterday.

Afghan suicide blast kills 80 - Afghanistan - MSNBC.com

imagine if the GWB wasn't duped by rummy and cheney into sending 160,000 american troops in to iraq....those 80 people would quite likely be alive right now, and the karzai govt. wouldn't be hanging by a thread.

OK...how many folks died in traffic accidents on the roads yesterday?
Goddamn! We gotta ban motor vehicles!

blackgang · 18-02-2008, 01:35 PM

raycarey · 18-02-2008, 02:45 PM

what's funny?

or are you just drunk again?

Wallalai · 18-02-2008, 02:52 PM

The situation is at its worst in Afghanistan and Irak, a total fiasco. The same fiasco in the US economy and the worst is to come. I think USA should forget about Iran as they are not even able to win a war against peasant.

But I'm sure some 'merkans suntanning in Thailand will argue that I don't know what I'm talking about.

raycarey · 19-02-2008, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

OK...how many folks died in traffic accidents on the roads yesterday?

in afghanistan? i have no idea. do you think it was more than 80? your post seems to indicate that you do. please provide a link.

btw, another 36 blown to bits yesterday

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/wo....html?ref=asia

01-10-2007, 12:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
sabang Watching the Wheels Last Online: Yesterday 08:23 PM Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: where the streets have no name Posts: 11,574	Oh dear, looks like the Taliban have gone all hard line again, or is it just invective prior to holding talks? Taliban reject overture from Afghanistan's government KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: The Taliban will "never" negotiate with the Afghan authorities until U.S. and NATO forces leave the country, a spokesman for the group said Sunday, again rebuffing an overture for peace talks from President Hamid Karzai. Karzai had said Saturday that he would be willing to meet personally with the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, and give militants a position in the government in exchange for peace. Karzai's peace overture came as insurgency-related violence continued to climb. Thirty people, mostly army soldiers, were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a military bus Saturday in Kabul. The death toll this week includes more than 165 militants killed during two battles between the Taliban and joint Afghan-coalition forces, and the 30 soldiers and civilians killed in the Kabul suicide bombing. Militant attacks and military operations have killed more than 4,600 people so far this year, most of them insurgents, according to the AP count. Full article- Taliban reject overture from Afghanistan's government - International Herald Tribune __________________ Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

31-01-2008, 07:49 AM	#4 (permalink)
sabang Watching the Wheels Last Online: Yesterday 08:23 PM Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: where the streets have no name Posts: 11,574	US report warns of Afghan failure More of the same :- Afghanistan is on the brink of becoming a "failed state", according to a new report, which also says the international mission to stabilise the country is "faltering." The Afghanistan Study Group report, released on Wednesday, also warned that without a Nato troops the government of Hamad Karzai, the Afghan president, is likely to "fall apart". The report warned "the mission to stabilize Afghanistan is faltering" amid renewed violence, rising opium production and falling confidence in the Afghan government and its international partners. It warned that several Nato countries were "wavering" over their troop commitments to the mission.... All 26 Nato nations have soldiers serving with the allied forces in Afghanistan, which currently stands at 42,000 troops. Military commanders say they remain hamstrung by restrictions that some nations place on what their troops can do. Al Jazeera English - News - Us Report Warns Of Afghan Failure I think this Karzai governments days are numbered. Also- Canada warns of Afghan withdrawal Canada will pull its troops out of Afghanistan in February 2009 unless Nato sends more troops to the dangerous south of the country, the prime minister has said... Harper's Conservative administration is under pressure to withdraw its 2,500 troops from Kandahar, a former Taliban stronghold, after the deaths of 78 soldiers and a diplomat... Britain, Canada, the Netherlands and others, alongside the US, have borne the brunt of a resurgent Taliban campaign of violent attacks... Full article- Al Jazeera English - News - Canada Warns Of Afghan Withdrawal Last edited by sabang : 31-01-2008 at 07:59 AM.

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03-02-2008, 02:29 AM	#2 (permalink)
Boon Mee Thailand Travel Forum Last Online: Yesterday 07:26 AM Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 12,927	Nobody’s saying who fired the missile that got him, but top Al Qaeda freakazoid Abu Laith al-Libi is now officially a dead terrorist. More to follow...heh Al-Qaida commander in Afghanistan killed - Yahoo! News

18-12-2007, 01:11 AM	#3 (permalink)
sabang Watching the Wheels Last Online: Yesterday 08:23 PM Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: where the streets have no name Posts: 11,574	Allies losing Afghanistan war, Australian minister warns: report Australia's new government has warned NATO and its allies they will lose the war against hardline Taliban forces in Afghanistan unless they urgently change tactics, a report said Monday. The country's new Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon issued the stark warning at a meeting in Edinburgh last week of eight nations engaged in the conflict, including the United States, The Australian newspaper said... The minister's comments to the closed-door gathering were based on classified intelligence assessments prepared for the previous Australian government of John Howard which painted a bleak picture of the Afghan conflict. "The previous government would have us believe that good progress is being made in Afghanistan. The reality is quite a different one," Fitzgibbon told The Australian after returning from the meeting in Britain. "We are winning the battles and not the war, in my view. We have been very successful in clearing areas of the Taliban but it's having no real strategic effect," he said. Allies losing Afghanistan war, Australian minister warns: report - Breaking News - World - Breaking News Nothing new in Afghanistan it seems.

31-01-2008, 09:05 AM	#5 (permalink)
keda Senior Member Last Online: 24-02-2009 04:49 PM Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 7,808	Parallels with Iraq no doubt.

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raycarey ........ Last Online: Yesterday 10:39 PM Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: deleting posts in issues Posts: 6,675	yet another AQ #3, eh?

03-02-2008, 02:23 PM	#9 (permalink)
blackgang Thailand Travel Forum Last Online: Today 05:44 AM Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Phetchabun city Posts: 13,390	see there Booners,, Ray Baby said he fired that missle, ain't he a brave boy, don't ya wish he was your son?

04-02-2008, 01:01 AM	#12 (permalink)
keda Senior Member Last Online: 24-02-2009 04:49 PM Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 7,808	A prim and proper Western democratic mindset scores no points in dealing with savages.

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Boon Mee Thailand Travel Forum Last Online: Yesterday 07:26 AM Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 12,927	The only American (so far) who has been indited for Treason since 9/11 may be dead. No tears for him here... The Jawa Report: American al Qaeda, Adam Gadahn, Dead?

18-02-2008, 01:35 PM	#17 (permalink)
blackgang Thailand Travel Forum Last Online: Today 05:44 AM Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Phetchabun city Posts: 13,390	^

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raycarey ........ Last Online: Yesterday 10:39 PM Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: deleting posts in issues Posts: 6,675	what's funny? or are you just drunk again?

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Wallalai Mactard Last Online: Today 03:23 AM Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Moo 2 Posts: 2,376	The situation is at its worst in Afghanistan and Irak, a total fiasco. The same fiasco in the US economy and the worst is to come. I think USA should forget about Iran as they are not even able to win a war against peasant. But I'm sure some 'merkans suntanning in Thailand will argue that I don't know what I'm talking about.

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