Peace talks inspire new attacks in Afghanistan
Stars & Stripes reports that a series of bombing attacks and gun fights in Kabul, Afghanistan have punctuated the peace talks with a renewed surge of violence from the Taliban;
During the brief but brazen attack, insurgents used two SUV’s resembling coalition vehicles, fake badges and coalition uniforms, to get onto a heavily fortified road leading to the presidential palace. There they engaged in a gunbattle with Afghan troops and set off several bombs, according to Kabul’s deputy police chief, Gen. Dawood Amin.
Estimates for the number of attackers have varied from four to eight, but Afghan and coalition officials said all were killed.. The Associated Press reported that three Afghan guards also died.
The attack occurred in a highly sensitive area that, in addition to the palace, is home to ISAF headquarters, the Ministry of Defense, and the CIA’s Afghanistan headquarters. A Ministry of Defense statement said only that the attack was aimed at a “foreign office,” while Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, claimed the attack was aimed at the CIA office and that many foreign troops were killed. The Taliban routinely exaggerate casualty figures from their attacks.
Of course the Taliban going to be bolder in ferocity of their attacks – they see peace talks as weakness. The fact that they’ve been invited to a peace table of any sort makes them think they’re winning. So, I guess they figure that the harder they fight, the more they’ll win in negotiations. Anyone got any other bright ideas?
Category: Terror War
So I guess the Taliban who attacked the palace complex didn’t get approval from the home office?
Karzai should take note of the attacks. They’re just going to get worse and more frequent once the U.S. leaves.
If Karzai isn’t an idiot he’s had a foreign bank account and a nice landing pad in place for years.
Anyone got any other bright ideas?
Sadly with this president there are no other options, negotiate from a position of weakness and leave….then make a lot of noise when the Taliban retakes the nation and send a few drones into to kill a few guys and pretend you are stopping terrorism by killing some random leaders here and there…that’s pretty much the strategy.
I’d like to see us carpet bomb the entire country until cockroaches are afraid to poke their heads out for fear of a bomb dropping on it. Start killing the families of the 4ssholes in Gitmo. Let the terrorists know their children, wives, parents will be killed for their associations regardless of what country they are in currently. Let those Saudi cock suckers know we are well aware that pretending to be our friends while turning a blind eye to their own radical islamists f$cks is over. Either pony up or expect to be unseated as well and we’ll take your f#cking oil and leave with the sand you started with….
This is what happens when you elect a community organizer as commander and chief when he was already salivating at cutting and running before he was was elected. Americans chose March Madness picks over national security competence and they are getting exactly what they deserve.
This is what happens when voter fraud, college ignorants, impossible to please libertarians, and women that watch day time TV decide elections.
Thanks Obama Brotherhood!
It’s too bad that Carter cancelled the Neutron Bomb. Afghanistan would be the perfect place to test a couple of dozen of them. As you know the Neutron bomb does little or no property damage. It has a very small residual radioactive footprint. It only kills every living thing in its blast radius. We could leave that nation better than we found it. No Afghans.