Radical Islamism and Jihad
Return of the Taliban: What lies ahead?
By Shobhan Saxena,TNN
20 July 2008
Nightmare revisited
A few days ago, a motorbike bomber blew himself up on a busy street in Oruzgan, taking down the local police chief, his four assistants and 20 civilians. One day before that, a bunch of heavily-armed Talibs launched a massive assault on a military post near the Pakistan border, leaving nine US soldiers dead. A week earlier, a suicide bomber rammed a car into the Indian embassy in the heart of Kabul, killing 58, including two high officials. So rattled were the Americans by the latest attack on their post that Gen David McKiernan, chief of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, revealed for the first time that the militants were crossing the border to attack his forces as well as firing at them from positions inside Pakistan, indicating that Afghanistan has replaced Iraq as the deadliest war zone for the US and its allies.
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