From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 15:16:44 MDT
[Quote from The Guardian]
"They were Arabs and Pakistanis," said Bismillah Khan, the garrison commander and a senior military figure in the Northern Alliance. He said the gunmen "came from the south of Kabul, from the direction of the mountains and villages".
Although international security assistance force troops patrol Kabul, their remit stops at the city's border. Further south, the Northern Alliance, which now dominates the Kabul government, has little influence.
[Joe Dees]
Apparently pockets of resistance remain, or continue to arrive. There should be a wider coalition security presence in Afghanistan proper, not just Kabul. It is a failing of the present course to believe that all the Afghan insurgency problems can be dealt with by means of military campagns that pack up and return to base when the shooting stops.
[rhinoceros]
This sounds technically correct, but it reminds of similar reports from the time when USSR was there for several years, hence the "deja vu" title.
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