MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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Taliban will take over from US and Nato in Afghanistan – leaked US report
By artappraiser on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 7:34am |By Julian Borger, Guardian.co.uk, Feb. 1, 2012
Document based on interrogations of Taliban and al-Qaida detainees says Pakistan is backing the resurgent movement
[....] The report, The State of the Taliban 2012, is the latest of a series drawn up by aUS special operations taskforce on the basis of interrogations with 4,000 suspected Taliban and al-Qaida detainees.
Its conclusions, that the Taliban's strength and morale are largely intact despite the Nato military surge, and that significant numbers of Afghan government soldiers are defecting to them, are in stark contrast to Nato's far more bullish official line [....] The report, leaked to the BBC and The Times, also portrays the Taliban as being under the thumb of Pakistan's powerful security agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), but resenting that control [....]
URL:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/01/taliban-afghanistan-leaked-report-pakistan
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