Mephisto
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It just seems wrong to pick a fight, then ask someone else to finish it. Of course, we might have been able to finish it ourselves had we not invaded a country completely unrelated to the most devastating terrorist attack on the U.S.
Insurgent activity rising in Afghanistan
POSTED: 7:48 a.m. EST, November 13, 2006
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Insurgent activity in Afghanistan has risen fourfold this year, and militants now launch more than 600 attacks a month, a rising wave of violence that has resulted in 3,700 deaths in 2006, a bleak new report found.
Afghanistan saw about 130 insurgent attacks a month last year, said the report by the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board, which consists of representatives from Afghanistan and the international community, including the United Nations.
The new report said insurgents were launching more than 600 attacks a month as of the end of September, up from 300 a month at the end of March this year. The violence has killed more than 3,700 people this year, it said.
Officials said on Sunday that in the volatile border area near Pakistan, more than 20 Taliban militants -- and possibly as many as 60 -- were killed during several days of clashes.
"Confronting increased insurgent activity has diverted much of the government's attention and significant resources," the report said.
"It threatens to reverse some of the gains made in the recent past, with development activities being especially hard hit in several areas, resulting in partial or total withdrawal of international agencies in a number of the worst-affected provinces."
The report said that the rising drugs trade in Afghanistan has "significantly helped fuel" the insurgency in four volatile southern provinces. The slow pace of development is contributing to popular disaffection and ineffective implementation of the drug fight, it said.
Afghanistan's poppy crop, which is used to make heroin, increased by 59 percent in Afghanistan this past year.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/11/12/afghan.violence.ap/index.html
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Wasn't the Taliban pretty effective in stopping the drug trade? I guess this whole war on terrorism would be going well if we could only get the drug trade in Afghanistan back to pre-invasion levels, and the death and torture in Iraq back to pre-invasion levels.
Insurgent activity rising in Afghanistan
POSTED: 7:48 a.m. EST, November 13, 2006
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Insurgent activity in Afghanistan has risen fourfold this year, and militants now launch more than 600 attacks a month, a rising wave of violence that has resulted in 3,700 deaths in 2006, a bleak new report found.
Afghanistan saw about 130 insurgent attacks a month last year, said the report by the Joint Coordination and Monitoring Board, which consists of representatives from Afghanistan and the international community, including the United Nations.
The new report said insurgents were launching more than 600 attacks a month as of the end of September, up from 300 a month at the end of March this year. The violence has killed more than 3,700 people this year, it said.
Officials said on Sunday that in the volatile border area near Pakistan, more than 20 Taliban militants -- and possibly as many as 60 -- were killed during several days of clashes.
"Confronting increased insurgent activity has diverted much of the government's attention and significant resources," the report said.
"It threatens to reverse some of the gains made in the recent past, with development activities being especially hard hit in several areas, resulting in partial or total withdrawal of international agencies in a number of the worst-affected provinces."
The report said that the rising drugs trade in Afghanistan has "significantly helped fuel" the insurgency in four volatile southern provinces. The slow pace of development is contributing to popular disaffection and ineffective implementation of the drug fight, it said.
Afghanistan's poppy crop, which is used to make heroin, increased by 59 percent in Afghanistan this past year.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/11/12/afghan.violence.ap/index.html
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Wasn't the Taliban pretty effective in stopping the drug trade? I guess this whole war on terrorism would be going well if we could only get the drug trade in Afghanistan back to pre-invasion levels, and the death and torture in Iraq back to pre-invasion levels.
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@ WildCat. Thanks.