After pause, Taliban renew Afghan attacks (27 Killed in 3 days)

[DUreader]

http://www.iht.com/articles/124259.htm

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"Unfortunately the situation is bad in these provinces," said Amir Mohammad
Ansari, the local representative of the Afghan Independent Human Rights
Commission. He said that some behind the attacks in the region were people allied to
the government, in particular regional commanders. "The Taliban are taking
advantage of this situation and making things worse," he said.

"The nature of attacks of the Taliban in the last six to eight months is that they are
not choosing targets on specific grounds; they are attacking any accessible target that
creates an impact," Nader Naderi, chief spokesman of the Human Rights
Commission, said in Kabul. "To attack Afghan nationalities, such as the Hazaras, is
easy, it is a soft target and makes a noise," he said.

The U.S.-led coalition force has a large base at Kandahar airport and recently
established a provincial reconstruction team in a separate base in town to try to
enhance security and increase reconstruction efforts in the region.

The U.S. military and aid officials have earmarked Kandahar as the center of
regional development in an effort to improve the general situation before elections in
the summer.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Won't see this on CNN or Fox.... it is not news when brown people

die, apparently.

[dusty64]

2. But I thought we'd

won the "war" there. Interesting how little is spoken about what is going on in Afghanistan anymore. Almost like they think if they don't talk about it the reality will go away.