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Afghan Taliban’s Reach Is Widest Since 2001, U.N. Says
New York Times ^ | October 11, 2015 | By ROD NORDLAND and JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN

Posted on 10/11/2015 4:00:30 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban insurgency has spread through more of Afghanistan than at any point since 2001, according to data compiled by the United Nations as well as interviews with numerous local officials in areas under threat.

In addition, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan over the past two weeks has evacuated four of its 13 provincial offices around the country — the most it has ever done for security reasons — according to local officials in the affected areas.

The data, compiled in early September — even before the latest surge in violence in northern Afghanistan — showed that United Nations security officials had already rated the threat level in about half of the country’s administrative districts as either “high” or “extreme,” more than at any time since the American invasion ousted the Taliban in 2001. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; afghanistangone; afghanwar; failedstate; taliban

1 posted on 10/11/2015 4:00:30 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

"Thank-you, thank-you very much".
2 posted on 10/11/2015 4:03:25 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

I am so sick of dealing with these countries! I want us out! Tell them if they screw with us, they have 24 hours to get their people to safety, because after 24 hours, they will have no cities, no airports, no trains, no bridges, no electricity or gas, etc.. Screw ‘em!


3 posted on 10/11/2015 4:10:25 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Rebelbase
Sadly, I think Barry the Muslim Barry thinks its Mission Accomplished !
Barry and VJ and Soros supports all Anti America forces .

This was his Plan by the Time he left Office ..
Isis is killing Christians.
Israel is surrounded
Iran has the Bomb

Barry and VJ biggest regret is that Muslim Brotherhood terrorists are not in power and destroying Israel.

4 posted on 10/11/2015 4:15:11 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: ncalburt

He has undone anything Bush might have accomplished and that was his promise. His only problem not solved is Guantanamo. He’s close on that and will give it back to Cuba next year.


5 posted on 10/11/2015 4:24:16 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
I want us out!

We got out, or we're getting out. We're getting out of everything, it's the Obama doctrine FRiend. Hope your grand-children and great-grand-children get to enjoy some brief freedom and prosperity before it all ends.

6 posted on 10/11/2015 4:24:49 PM PDT by keat
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” Hope your grand-children and great-grand-children get to enjoy some brief freedom and prosperity before it all ends.”

Oh come on! Of what value are these countries to us? Let Europe fight for their oil. They are barbarians that we should either ignore or destroy. I’m sick of the money and lives were spending for savages.


7 posted on 10/11/2015 4:42:11 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Look. I don’t give a damn if the Taliban is running wild in Afghanistan. They haven’t bothered anyone within the United States, as far as I know. They just want to control their own damn country, and take it back from the thieving, crooked elite bastards who now are running their country. Why is it that the US always backs cor5rupt regimes in that part of the world? Let them have it. They kicked out the Russians. They can’t be that bad.


8 posted on 10/11/2015 4:42:35 PM PDT by batterycommander (- a little more rubble, a lot less trouble.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

I have always preferred the strategy you propose. You screw with us, we come in and break everything and leave. If you screw with us again, we come back and break more things. Repeat until objective is achieved.

I also hate bringing in barbarian refugees. That type of thing helped to destroy the Roman Empire.


9 posted on 10/11/2015 4:47:28 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

has the kenyan prince yet included afghanistan on any of his Apology Tour....yet?


10 posted on 10/11/2015 6:01:41 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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