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Omar Sobhani / Reuters
Afghan security forces run on the roof of the Kabul traffic police headquarters as it is attacked by insurgents on Jan. 21, 2013.
Reuters reports — Suicide bombers and gunmen launched an eight-hour assault on the headquarters of the Kabul traffic police on Monday, Afghan officials said, in the second coordinated attack on a government building in less than a week.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the operation in which all five attackers and three traffic police officers were killed, interior ministry officials said.
The attack raised the possibility that insurgents were shifting tactics, testing Afghan security forces in Kabul after a series of high-profile attacks on Western targets last year. Read the full story.
Omar Sobhani / Reuters
Afghan police officers run to the Kabul traffic police headquarters as it is attacked by insurgents on Jan. 21, 2013.
Shah Marai / AFP - Getty Images
Black smoke billows from the Afghan police headquarters during an attack in Kabul on Jan. 21, 2013.
Aref Karimi / AFP - Getty Images
More than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.
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Sounds like old times. Afghan vs. Afghan. Fine with me.
Well, yes, that's true. But it would have been nice had we not spent untold billions of dollars and lost thousands of military lives, if the end result was going to be absolutely NO better than when we went in. A few taliban killed, several come out of the woodwork to replace them. But, at least perhaps we have taken control of their opium production and distribution and can count on some of that cash to provide the financial aid to various African nations.
Mission accomplished Barack. bring every single troop home now.
Notice how quickly the Western News Media cover the word "Terrorism" from ever appearing in these articles? They substitute any other description such as "Suicide bomber", "Gunman" or "Insurgents".. Anything but Islamic TERRORISM... So whenever you read any article written by A/P, Reuters, or BBC.. That is re-written in your local newspapers, take note how these News Agencies distort the actual events by just changing the wording..
Why would anyone interpret those words as anything other than terrorists? Well, stupid people might.
It is ethnocentric, isn't it? If Western interests or military posts are attacked, it's terrorism. If it's Afghan on Afghan, it's described otherwise. The action and intent are the same; the media merely ascribes different semantics to it. And the reason is obvious: if it isn't our people getting vaporized, it doesn't concern us.
Truth is, Taliban attacks on Afghan government or civilian targets ARE terrorism and intended to be such. And equally true, that is business as usual for that utterly ungovernable and star-crossed corner of the globe. The USA couldn't tame the place, nor could the Soviet Union, Great Britain, Tamerlane, or Alexander the Great. There's a lesson there: Don't try, just seal it off and let it take care of itself.
The words "terrorist" and "terrorism" have been diluted so much, they've lost all meaning anyway. Ah, the good old days when it meant someone strapping on a vest of explosives and taking over a plane. Now it basically means anyone, in any conflict, anywhere in the world - that "we" don't agree with.
Well sooner more likely than later another 12 year old girl will be found to have been savagely raped. Afterall, it is a frequent occurrence in all muslim countries. Both sides will then shelve their differences for a while in order to rush to be part of the hapless girl's slow death by stoning for the sin of sex outside marriage. Despite their ongoing nutcase against nutcase disputes, Islam comes first. That's why the West feels their "culture" is so worth defending (and importing).
That part of the world with its crazy cultural and religious practices have always been stalking each other, and their citizens for a reason to reduce the problem of over population of any and all they deem undesirables.
The less mouths to feed the more food for me. It is an accepted cultural practice that only the strong shall survive.
And our fighting there only fuels this willingness of theirs to fight and die for what they believe in.
We are seeing a little bit of that craziness here in the USA, with gun control ban, cultural and religious believes have been the reason for all wars fought upon ones homeland. The Civil War here in the USA was a cultural and religious war.
Rubbish...the Civil War was all about economics: The South fought to preserve an economic system built on slavery, and the social structure that teetered precariously atop it. They knew that long-term political and economic trends were against them, and that if slavery were not allowed to expand beyond the confines of the existing slave states then their political influence would inexorably wane. Two votes per state in the Senate; more states without slaver meant eventual doom for them politically. So they fought to preserve their "rights" and "culture".
We know how that turned out for them a century and a half ago. And if their great-great-grandchildren are so foolish as to tee up a rematch, the result will be exactly the same.
Rematch???!!! Where did that come frm?
It comes from the RWNJ's speaking once again of "nullification" of Federal laws that they disagree with, and talk of secession once again in places like Texas and South Carolina (the cradle of the Confederacy). There is a hard core of individuals who have always harbored such beliefs, and they have grown bolder and more public in recent years. To follow their logic to it's inevitable conclusion, a rematch would result since the Federal government cannot do otherwise. Will they garner sufficient influence to put their beliefs in play again? I'd like to hope not, but there are a lot of gullible people out there.
What is it with Arabs who think they must be attacking someone all the time? If there are not any coalition forces to shoot, they bomb the roads, throw acid on school girls, blow up markets, attack traffic cops and detonate vehicles. They seem to have one goal, and that is to kill or destroy everything there is, regardless of who put it there or why.
Wouldn't you be pissed off too if you looked like that guy in the bottom picture?
mymomdidnotraiseafool
Stupid people elected Obama.
Muslim on muslim crime...slowly raising the IQ of the world as they wipe each other out in yet another sharia @!$%#hole.
Allly Akbar
"Suicide bombers launch attack on Afghan traffic cops".
What next? School crossing guards?
Islam: The Religion of Peace
Take a close look at the top picture. Anyone see at least one something wrong with it????
Correction the 2nd picture. Guy in background would be a start.