Resurgent Taliban said to be closing in on Kabul

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November 21, 2007 - 3:34 PM

Resurgent Taliban said to be closing in on Kabul

By Luke Baker

LONDON (Reuters) - The conflict in Afghanistan has reached "crisis proportions", with the resurgent Taliban present in more than half the country and closing in on Kabul, a report said on Wednesday.

If NATO, the lead force operating in Afghanistan, is to have any impact against the insurgency, troop numbers will have to be doubled to at least 80,000, the report said.

"The Taliban has shown itself to be a truly resurgent force," the Senlis Council, an independent think-tank with a permanent presence in Afghanistan, wrote in a study entitled "Stumbling into Chaos: Afghanistan on the brink".

"Its ability to establish a presence throughout the country is now proven beyond doubt," it said. "The insurgency now controls vast swaths of unchallenged territory including rural areas, some district centres, and important road arteries."

[Cleita]

1. Thanks for some real news!

Another BushCo failure in the works it seems. Where's Osama?

Recommended.

[MnFats]

2. but.... but ..but I thought everything was getting better!!!?!?!

all the media that continued to print/broadcast BAD STUFF were just showing themselves to be America-haters!!

[msongs]

3. bush is new brezhnev and our soldiers are the new russians nt