Word: taliban
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...took all of 30 minutes. On June 13, Taliban forces sent two suicide bombers into a prison in the southern Afghan town of Kandahar; they were followed by 30 motorcyle-riding militants, who systematically broke down every cell door in the jail. The audacious raid freed an estimated 400 Taliban fighters, and many of them appear to have gone right to work. Within three days, hundreds of insurgents swarmed through the key district of Arghandab - and escaped prisoners were among them, says district chief Ghulam Farouq. As the Taliban gained a footing in the villages, NATO and Afghan army troops...
...raisin-drying barns and deep irrigation canals provide excellent cover for fighters. Kandahar residents worry that the militants could use the Arghandab district as a base for an attack on the city itself, in an attempt to regain their former power base. "Arghandab is a strategic district, which the Taliban can use to threaten Kandahar," says former police chief Khan Mohammad. The Taliban have taken every village in the area except for the main town of Arghandab, Mohammad says, and there are now 40 to 50 Taliban fighters in each village. He worries that the jailbreak was a precursor...
...Agency for International Development (USAID) and now a professor of international development at Georgetown University. A more flexible approach could dramatically improve the world's ability to feed itself. As proof, Natsios cites a USAID project that sent Afghan farmers a genetically modified wheat strain immediately after the Taliban's defeat in 2002, resulting in a massive harvest that year. "Farmers told me it was a miracle of Allah," he says...
...terrorism and that our resources in those countries would bring a higher rate of return. Given that fundamental difference, a joint trip to Iraq--and only Iraq--concedes McCain's key assumption. Perhaps Obama should counter by proposing that they visit southern Afghanistan, where America's war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda has been crippled for years by the diversion of troops and attention to Iraq...
...this belief in a living imam has made Ismailis a target for radical mullahs, notably the Taliban in the 1990s, who decry them as heretical...