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...Afghanistan Your cover showed a soldier standing near a gun emplacement [July 28]. A better photo would have been the one in Rory Stewart's article, in which two Kabul residents are holding hands as they cross an incomplete bridge. That picture more closely represents what is likely to help Afghanistan achieve its rightful future of peace and stability: a helping hand. Piyoosh Kotecha, BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA...
...TIME: When we last met two years ago, Kabul's first major suicide bomb went off during our interview. Since then the militants have grown ever stronger. There have been many devastating attacks, plus an attempt on your life. The casualties will only get worse, I fear. And did you see what's happening in Pakistan? Why would someone go and blow himself up in a hospital? Who are they, what are they? It cannot be justified. You can fight people anywhere, anyplace, but you don't kill people in a hospital. It's crazy...
...have accused Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency of supporting terrorism in Afghanistan, particularly in the case of the recent Indian embassy bombing in Kabul. Do you think the new civilian government in Pakistan can rein in the ISI? [Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf] Gilani is a good man. He has the right intentions. I hope he gets the tools of control. Today, the army chief of Pakistan was in Afghanistan, at Bagram air-force base. I called [General Ashfaq] Kayani on the telephone to welcome him to my country, and to tell him that Afghanistan cannot achieve peace or prosperity...
...Taliban ambush on Aug. 18 killed 10 French soldiers and wounded 21. It was one of the deadliest attacks on non-American troops in Afghanistan since 2001, prompting French President Nicolas Sarkozy to travel to Kabul in an effort to reassure his country's forces. On Aug. 19, a group of suicide bombers tried to storm a U.S. military base near the Pakistan border. Several blew themselves up, but the base's security was not breached...
...deadly force that the Taliban now pack as a result is evident in the escalating number of attacks - and casualties - inflicted on NATO-led forces in Afghanistan. Indeed even as the French paratroopers were being cut down by Taliban snipers in a valley east of Kabul Monday, two separate suicide bombing attacks struck US bases elsewhere in Afghanistan. The growing frequency and audacity of Taliban offensives are producing a spiraling death count among international forces - 183 of whom have been killed thus far this year, compared to 232 fatalities for all of 2007. Significantly, an Afghanistan scenario once considered under...