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The dismal fate of the Afghan people is that groups even more extreme than the Taliban are emerging to vie for power.After capturing Kabul on August 15, the Taliban took three weeks to announce an interim government. Hardliners secured all of the posts in what was likely a power struggle with other Taliban leaders. The government is highly exclusive in its representation of gender, ethnicity, religion, and political views. When the Taliban first came to power in 1996, it enjoyed relative popular support given the fact that the feud between incumbent mujahedin groups had devastated Afghanistan. But the Taliban did...

KABUL - A major terrorist plot targeting Afghan soldiers was uncovered Monday at the Ministry of Defense headquarters in Kabul, an official at the Ministry has confirmed to CBS News. The official, who asked not to be identified because the Afghan government yet to acknowledge the plot, revealed that 11 suicide vests were found in three rooms in the area surrounding a parking lot at the Ministry. The investigation is still in its early stages but it is known that 11 buses were scheduled to leave the parking lot carrying Afghan army personnel. The working theory among investigators so far...

A careful audit of combat support and reconstruction contracts reveals that at least $360 million in US tax dollars has gone to fund the Taliban and terrorist operations in Afghanistan. Corrupt contractors and subcontractors are responsible for the diversion of funds which have surely resulted in harm to soldiers and civilians throughout the region. LOS ANGELES (Catholic Online) - The losses demonstrate one of the challenges the US faces in Afghanistan, specifically, rampant corruption. Private Afghan corporations are providing many support services to the US and NATO forces and are collecting payments from the military for their services. However, the...

There are two videos at this site. The first one is of Arabs in the Gaza Strip cheering after the towers fell on 911. The second video has an American AH-64 Apache Gunship observing Taliban militants armed and dangerous as they sit around a campfire. The next thing these Islamic terrorists know, they are in hell, courtesy of a hellfire missile. 3 bursts of from a 30mm = $10001 Hell Fire Missile = $10,0008 dead Taliban fighters = priceless

KABUL, Afghanistan (Jan. 10, 2011) — Afghan and coalition forces detained a senior Taliban leader along with several suspected insurgents during a security operation in Gulistan district of Farah province yesterday. The now detained insurgent was the senior Taliban leader for Bakwah district. He receives large sums of money from foreign fighter insurgent groups. He also plans, coordinates and participates in attacks against coalition forces. Security forces followed leads to a targeted location in the district, where Afghan forces called for all occupants to exit out of the buildings peacefully before conducting a search. The security team detained the targeted...

General David Petraeus, the US commander in Afghanistan, held out the prospect on Sunday of eventual reconciliation with the Taliban, including negotiations with leaders with “blood on their hands”. “It doesn’t mean that Mullah Omar is about to stroll down main street in Kabul anytime soon and raise his hand and swear an oath on the constitution of Afghanistan,” Petraeus said in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.’ But he said there was “every possibility, I think, that there can be low-and mid-level reintegration and indeed some fracturing of the senior leadership that could be really defined as reconciliation.”...

Note: 3 page article. "Inside the Gitmo Task Force's Final Report" SNIPPET: "President Obama's own task force concluded that 95 percent of the Gitmo detainees had at least some connection to the terror network." SNIPPET: "On January 22, President Obama’s Guantanamo Review Task Force completed its final report, which outlined the administration’s plan for the remaining detainees held at Guantanamo. The Task Force was set up as part of the president’s effort to close Gitmo. THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained a copy of the report, as well as Attorney General Eric Holder’s transmittal memorandum. As explained below, the Task Force...

The Pakistani Taliban, even while continuing their penetration of central Pakistan, have begun mobilizing fresh recruits from all over the country to go help their Afghan Taliban brothers resist the newly arriving Western troops. The Taliban now control the tribal regions of Pakistan, huge sections of the Swat Valley and have just consolidated their control over the district of Buner, just 60 miles from Islamabad...(Snip) Pakistan was one of only two nations on earth that recognized the Taliban as Afghanistan's legitimate government (the other being Osama's home country of Saudi Arabia)...(Snip) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made headlines last weekend...

Pakistan troops killed in Taliban ambush on truck By Noor Khan, Kandahar TALIBAN fighters ambushed a truck full of government soldiers in the southern province of Zabul, killing several, the provincial governor and a Taliban spokesman said yesterday. The sides gave differing death tolls from Saturday’s attack. Mohammed Hanif, a Taliban spokesman who contacted the Associated Press by satellite telephone, said 12 government soldiers were killed and that no Taliban fighters had died. Governor Hafizullah Khan said five soldiers and three Taliban were killed. It was impossible to immediately confirm the number of dead. Khan said the attack occurred in...

Pro-government militia forces killed 20 suspected Taliban in a new offensive in southern Afghanistan while US warplanes pounded extremists holed up nearby. "Following the interrogation of suspects captured in the operation north of Kandahar we could identify a new base in the Haba moutnains," said Gul Agha, governor of the southern province of Kandahar. "We launched a raid on this base, 20 Taliban were killed and three of our soldiers were killed in the fighting." Last week Agha launched operations against suspected Taliban north of Kandahar city following the murder of Red Cross worker Ricardo Munguia. Meanwhile US warplanes bombed...

A British Taliban fighter in custody in Guantánamo Bay provided U.S. investigators a crucial link between a group of Seattle militant Muslims and members of a radical mosque in London, federal sources say. The prisoner, Feroz Abbassi, told CIA interrogators earlier this year that he had traveled to Afghanistan from London in 2000 with an American — a Muslim convert now suspected of being a key figure in the Seattle group suspected of supporting the al-Qaida terrorist network. Abbassi said he had met the man at the North London Central Mosque, a major recruiting ground for Islamic terrorists. That mosque...