December 13, 2003 Afghan Leader Asserts Taliban Insurgency Will FailBy CARLOTTA GALL and DAVID ROHDE KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 12 — The growing Taliban insurgency in southern and eastern Afghanistan is alienating the population and will eventually fail, President Hamid Karzai said Friday in an interview at the presidential palace.Confident and at times combative, Mr. Karzai denied that parts of the country had become too dangerous for Afghan and foreign aid workers to enter. Popular support for the Taliban, he added, is fading. "It's not working," he said, referring to the rising number of Taliban attacks that have killed 300 Afghans,...