Taliban Intensify Assassination Program

[unhappycamper]

Taliban Intensify Assassination Program
August 19, 2010
Long War Journal|by Bill Roggio

The Taliban have intensified their assassination program in southern Afghanistan, killing two senior government officials in Kandahar and Zabul provinces.

Two days ago, a Taliban suicide bomber killed the chief of police for the district on Daman in Kandahar province. Three policemen and a civilian were also killed in the Aug.17 attack, which targeted the police chief as he drove toward Kandahar city. The suicide attack in Daman took place just two days after a combined Coalition and Afghan special operations force captured "a key Taliban weapons distributor" along with an undisclosed number of fighters in the district.

In the neighboring district of Dand, the Taliban killed six policemen by poisoning their food. The soldiers died from their meal after breaking the Ramadan fast. The cook who poisoned the food fled and rejoined the Taliban.

In Zabul province, the Taliban killed the provincial Border and Tribal Affairs chief and his wife and wounded his sister in an attack on his home. Zabul is a known haven for the Taliban and al Qaeda. On Aug. 11, Afghan and Coalition forces detained more than 20 suspected "insurgents" in Zabul while targeting an al Qaeda foreign fighter facilitator operating in the district of Shamulzai.

[T Wolf]

1. A rebellion against an occupying enemy by a native population will usually succeed - it depends

on which side is more willing to go "extreme."

In this war, the American Empire is up against a population that will do whatever is necessary to drive the US out.

If the Russians (whom we assume are less "civilized" than us) could not prevail, the US will certainly fail.

[unhappycamper]

2. FWIW, the last person to successfully occupy Afghanistan was Genghis Kahn in 1219.

That's 881 years of failed occupations.

[T Wolf]

3. Exactly. Unless the US adopts the intensity and brutal tactics of the 13th century. we are

doomed to failure.

Not that we should even consider that. But then, we should not be there.