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Taliban will rule Afghanistan again, says leaked US military report

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Duh!

Classified document is said to warn that Pakistan is plotting to help reinstall Taliban once Nato-led forces depart

A Taliban fighter loyal to Jalaluddin Haqqani

The Taliban have secured Pakistan’s support for a return to power in Afghanistan as well as toning down their severe brand of Islamism, according to reports citing a leaked US military assessment. Photograph: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

The Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control of Afghanistan after Nato-led forces withdraw from the country, according to reports citing a classifed assessment by US forces.

The Times described the report as secret and “highly classified”, saying it was put together last month by the US military at Bagram air base in Afghanistan for top Nato officers. The BBC also carried a report on the leaked document.

“Many Afghans are already bracing themselves for an eventual return of the Taliban,” the report was quoted as saying. “Once Isaf (Nato-led forces) is no longer a factor, Taliban consider their victory inevitable.”

The document stated that Pakistan’s security agency was helping the Taliban in directing attacks against foreign forces – a charge long denied by Islamabad.

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The CIA, the Taliban and more madness in Afghanistan

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We are supporting a corrupt president who only won the “election” because his opponent withdrew. He withdrew from a second election because the same system of election was used that got Karzai elected in the first place was corrupt.

We are fighting in Afghanistan to fight “them” over there so we don’t have to fight “them” over here.

But it turns out that we “the west” are paying for the Taliban to keep the war going and we pay for the Taliban to come over to our side and we even train them to fight on our side.

But it seems the “Taliban” has its own ideas about who the enemy is and that means more casualties on you guessed it, OUR SIDE.

Call me crazy but doesn’t this sound like madness to you?

Taliban increases in strength

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9 years ago the coalition of the killing willing ousted the Taliban with a mere 10.000 troops. Today more than 65.000 foreign troops are stationed in Afghanistan there are even more than that in Mercenary numbers and still most of the Country is under Taliban control. Does that sound like “we ” won the war to you?

Not only that but the number of Taliban warriors is growing there are now 25.000 full time warriors and many more “part time” warriors.

McCrystal, Obama’s hand picked head thug wants 65.000 more troops to impose total control over some 30 million people and Obama is stepping up the attacks with unmanned drones into Pakistan even though it kills a lot of innocent people. This will only help increase the numbers of the Taliban as people loose loved ones and take up a gun for revenge.

McCrystal may not get 65.000 troops but 45.000 are being discussed.

Pakistan is claiming some “victories” against the Taliban while they attack Taliban strongholds with another 30.000 troops.

No empire ever won in Afghanistan. John Key proclaiming eminent victory in 18 months is a joke designed to keep the gullible New Zealand public from asking serious questions about our involvement.

8 US soldiers die in militant attack on outposts in remote eastern Afghanistan

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“Soldiers Are Just Dumb, Stupid Animals…to be used” as pawns of foreign policy. Henry Kissinger.

Before anybody gets their knickers in a twist and thinks that this is my opinion I would like to state unequivocally that I abhor Henry Kissinger and think that he is one of the biggest war criminals of all times. It illustrates however how our dear leaders tend to think about soldiers and their use and by sending SAS troops into a war that is all but lost because it is politically expedient for him to do so John Key shows that he is no different.

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If we were so successful in dismantling the Taliban in the “good” war in Afghanistan than how come hundreds of insurgents attack military posts killing scores of US and British troops?

The fact is that the war in Afghanistan is all but lost, a fact known to every military in Afghanistan including McCrystal who in a secret rapport stated that he needs 500.000 more troops over the next five years to keep control over Afghanistan. A country whose population has never lost a war in its history. Not a single foreign invader ever held on to the loot.

How badly are we losing the war in Afghanistan? Try the Taliban holds sway over 97% of Afghanistan. That’s how bad we’re losing in Aghanistan.

And that’s the quagmire we send 70 of New Zealands finest into.

Losing Ground: Taliban Cover 97% of Afghanistan: Report

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Ooh oops, the coalition oft he killing willing is losing in Afghanistan. It seems the Afghani’s want their country for themselves and the Taliban is in control of over 80% of the country and active in all but 3% and attacks and deaths are mounting. And we are going to send SAS troops into that quagmire?

And what is this about a dead Osama bin Laden still being used as a reason for the war on terror? The government would lie to us like that would they?

Update: never mind about Osama bin Laden, they caught another old bloke with a beard in Pakistan this time.

New research indicates that 80% of Afghanistan now has a permanent Taliban presence and that 97% of the country has “substantial Taliban activity.”

The International Council on Security and Development (ICOS) has followed the movement of the Taliban throughout Afghanistan since 2007, by tracking third party public daily reports of incidents that indicate Taliban presence. Presence is defined by: “(An) average of one (or more) insurgent attacks (lethal and non-lethal) per week.”

Even with this new data outlining a 97% presence, ICOS President Ms. Norine McDonald QC told the Huffington Post that she believes that figure is “conservative”.

“It’s bad numbers and bad news,” says MacDoanld. “They (the Taliban) have the momentum, their strategies and tactics are working, and ours are not. … it’s not a question of where they are operating, it’s more a question of where they are not.”

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Is New Zeland getting involved in the illegal and undeclared war in Pakistan?

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With the header that “ NZ agents join secret war in Afghanistan” New Zealands involvement with the oil wars has reached a new low.

While it is becoming abundantly clear that the coalition of the willing supported president Karzai has engaged in election fraud on  a massive scale and the MoD of the UK has lied about the state of the war in order to get more money and troops and more and more leaders are calling for at least communication with Taliban leaders and an end to the bloodshed in Afghanistan. Obama, NATO and the worlds financial elite has elected to escalate the ware efforts. Drone attacks on the neighbouring country Pakistan and secret military intervention to “stop the Taliban over there” are killing scores of innocent Pakistani civilians and their actions are antagonizing the local population to the point of forming militia’s to protect their territory. not only that but those responsible for the mass killings are to drunk and hung over to explain what the fuck they were thinking when the bombed two trucks while hundreds of civilians were trying to nick some much needed fuel out of them breaking all protocol while doing so.

The popular opinion is already massively anti American and most regard the attacks on their soil an attempt to gain control of Pakistan. News is coming out that the notorious mercenaries of Erik Prins’s private military army Xe (formerly known as Blackwater) are operating in Pakistan and with the emerging details about Blackwater’s close allignment with the CIA that is not surprising.

But with the news that New Zealand secretly has been sending spooks to Afghanistan because the suspicion was that the Taliban got intelligence from Pakistan New Zealand’s ruling elite has chosen to follow a dangerous new direction.

To send intelligence personnel to a war zone to investigate what might be a cause for further expansion into an undeclared and illegal war of aggression against a sovereign nation the government has opened up itself for the war tribunal in the Hague and a serious breach of human rights and the international Geneva convention against war crimes.

Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You don’t want to know

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Up until quite recently, most experts thought that drug money accounted for the bulk of Taliban funding. But even here opinion was divided on actual amounts. Some reports gauged the total annual income at about $100 million, while others placed the figure as high as $300 million — still a small fraction of the $4 billion poppy industry.

It is of course known to all but the dimmest that al Qaeda and the Taliban have largely been funded and organised by the US. It was only when the Taliban overplayed their cards when they did not want to permit an oil pipe through their country and they finished the opium business that the US attacked their country.

The war against Afghanistan  was as was known by all but the dimmest planned long before the 9/11 attacks and perhaps, if you are still naive enough to believe the official conspiracy theory about the 9/11 attacks you might believe that we  are only in Afghanistan to do the right thing (whatever that may mean) but when you realise that the US is actually financing the Taliban than surely you must  be against sending NZ SAS troops into that godforsaken place.

KABUL — It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to hide. In Afghanistan, one of the richest sources of Taliban funding is the foreign assistance coming into the country.

Virtually every major project includes a healthy cut for the insurgents. Call it protection money, call it extortion, or, as the Taliban themselves prefer to term it, “spoils of war,” the fact remains that international donors, primarily the United States, are to a large extent financing their own enemy.

“Everyone knows this is going on,” said one U.S. Embassy official, speaking privately.

It is almost impossible to determine how much the insurgents are spending, making it difficult to pinpoint the sources of the funds.

Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef, former Taliban minister to Pakistan, was perhaps more than a bit disingenuous when he told GlobalPost that the militants were operating mostly on air.

“The Taliban does not have many expenses,” he said, smiling slightly. “They are barefoot and hungry, with no roof over their heads and a stone for their pillow.” As for weapons, he just shrugged. “Afghanistan is full of guns,” he said. “We have enough guns for years.”

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Secret map reveals Taliban threat to Afghan authority

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With the news that three “special forces” members of a newly formed Assassin “special” group were killed in the news this morning in the UK it is becoming increasingly clear that the honest and righteous war in Afghanistan is becoming increasingly more lurid and oppressive to the Afghan population.

Why?

Because the Western alliance is losing the war and with that the grip on Afghans resources and the Caspian basins treasures. Do we want New Zealand involved in a war crime of massive proportions? A war fought solely to keep the American hegemony and its worthless currency propped up?

Almost half of Afghanistan is at a high risk of attack by the Taliban and other insurgents, or is under “enemy control”, according to a secret Afghan government map that paints a dire security picture before presidential elections.

The threat assessment map shows 133 of Afghanistan’s 356 districts are regarded as high-risk areas with at least 13 under “enemy control”.

The map – which bears the logos of the Interior Ministry and the army as well as the United Nations Department of Safety and Security – was produced in April, before an escalation of the violence.

It shows virtually the entire south of the country under extreme risk of attack, a vast swathe stretching from Farah in the west through Helmand province in the south and east towards provinces such as Paktia and Nangarhar near the Pakistan border.

The Taliban have vowed to disrupt the poll on August 20 and have called on Afghans to boycott the vote. Their traditional strongholds have been in the south and east but their influence has steadily spread to the west and north, even to the outskirts of Kabul. It shows at-risk areas on three sides of the capital.

In an attack demonstrating their new reach, Islamist insurgents fired up to nine rockets into the capital early on Tuesday, the first attack of its kind in several years.

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Taliban will let guns do their talking

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KARACHI – Amid a growing furor in Britain over the deaths in the past few days of eight British servicemen in Afghanistan, the initiative to seek dialogue with the Taliban at the highest level of their leadership is gaining pace.

Taliban leader Mullah Omar is now the focus of attention, with the Pakistan military reportedly saying that it is prepared to act as a middleman to help the administration of United States President Barack Obama in a “new diplomatic overture to find an end to the long-running conflict” in Afghanistan.

Mullah Omar, however, is not believed to be in any mood to talk. Over the past few months, he has consolidated his grip over the various scattered but powerful resistance groups across

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Whistleblower Who Linked “Taliban” Leader To US Intelligence Is Assassinated

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A whistleblower who defected from the Pakistani Taliban has been assassinated just days after he claimed that the group was working with US intelligence to destabilize the country.

Qari Zainuddin, a tribal leader of the South Waziristan region in Pakistan was shot dead on Tuesday by a gunman said to be loyal to Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.

Analysts said that Mr Zainuddin’s murder was a serious blow to the military campaign against the militants, as support of his faction was considered crucial, reports the London Times. “[It] is a warning to other pro government tribal commanders,” said Mahmood Shah, a retired brigadier who had served as top official in the tribal region.

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