Taliban now Rule Area US Left

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Taliban now Rule Area US Left
November 12, 2009
Long War Journal|by Bill Roggio

One month after U.S. forces abandoned outposts in the Kamdesh district in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nuristan, the Taliban are operating in the open, without fear of retaliation.

The Taliban and their commander Dost Mohammed flaunted their control of the district to Al Jazeera. Dost, who some claimed was killed during U.S. and Afghan raids in Nuristan, granted an interview with the news organization from Kamdesh. Coalition forces attacked the Taliban in mid-October after the battle of Combat Outpost Keating and the subsequent U.S. withdrawal. Mullah Abdul Rahman Mostaghni, a district-level commander, was thought to have been killed in a raid over the weekend.

The Taliban created "administrative units and the officials have been appointed," an unnamed commander told Al Jazeera.

"We also established the judiciary department and the commission for the promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice section," the commander told the news agency. "We are working on providing people's basic needs."

The promotion of virtue and the prevention of vice section will enforce the Taliban's strict, repressive brand of sharia, or Islamic law.


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