http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=56632 "Taliban lurches back to power:
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "KABUL, March 01 (Online): A convoy of about 20 Honda motorcycles surrounds a house, looking for people who support the United States or President Hamid Karzai.
If they find one, they kill him. If not, the householders are beaten to serve as a warning to others.
In the village of Shah Joy, about 300 kilometres southwest of Kabul, the return of the Taliban has been swift and harsh, as it is in about one-third of Afghanistan's southern regions where the ousted regime has regrouped and is widely thought to be preparing for a spring offensive against the Karzai government and its U.S. allies."