Taliban warn of summer offensive

[deadparrot]

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban is gearing up for a massive summer offensive, with more than 2,000 suicide bombers ready for action and even more preparing, a senior commander said on Saturday.

The warning comes a day after a top U.S. diplomat warned Afghanistan was in for a bloody and dangerous spring after the bloodiest year since the hardline Islamist Taliban was ousted by U.S.-led forces in 2001.

"The Taliban will intensify their guerrilla and suicide strikes this summer," Mulla Hayat Khan told Reuters from a secret location. "This will be a bloodiest year for foreign troops."

He said 2,000 suicide bombers were ready -- about 40 percent of the total suicide force -- adding numbers were so high it was sometimes hard to find enough explosives and targets.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070127/ts_nm/afghan_taliban_dc

[Doctor_J]

1. Chucklenuts already gave Afghanistan back to the Taliban

might as well get our soldiers out of harm's way there.

[nealmhughes]

2. Well, I think they had better start practicing in the Tora Bora, myself, with live ammo.

The idea of 2000 bombers, all strapped in is frankly disturbing, a delusion of imagined grandeur, perhaps, but disturbing all the same.

Bloody Wahhabi sheiks with their "charity" to ban girls from school, teach boys to read the Koran in Arabic but not to do math in Farsi, to turn Kabul back into a backwards-leaning opencesspoolcity...O Noble sons of al Saud, what misery ye have wrought upon a noble people who have enough problems without Arabs coming with their petrodollars.

To hell with the Saudis and the Taliban, disgusting pigs of perdition.

[daleo]

3. They managed to kill 40 Canadians out of 2000 Canadian troops last summer/fall

So, history shows that they can cause casualties if they try. It has been quiet since Christmas, but I guess that's the age old Afghan way.