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The Alchemist
07-01-11, 20:07
"NATO Estimate: Taliban Just As Strong Today As A Year Ago : Massive Escalation Had Done Nothing To Size of Insurgency


Source : antiwar.com, January 06, 2011 :

NATO Estimate: Taliban Just as Strong Today as a Year Ago -- News from Antiwar.com (http://news.antiwar.com/2011/01/06/nato-estimate-taliban-just-as-strong-today-as-a-year-ago/)





NATO Estimate: Taliban Just as Strong Today as a Year Ago
Massive Escalation Has Done Nothing to Size of Insurgency
by Jason Ditz, January 06, 2011

What does NATO have to show for a 40,000 troop escalation and a year of record death tolls? Absolutely nothing, according to the military alliance’s most recent estimates.

NATO officials have confirmed that the alliance’s estimate for the size of the Taliban is 25,000 fighters, exactly the same number as a year ago. They insist that the estimates are “rough,” but the real story is that these “rough” estimates haven’t changed one bit.

The claim once again flies in the face of the Obama Administration’s claims that measurable progress is being made in the war, despite the ever rising levels of violence. If violence isn’t dropping and the insurgency isn’t getting smaller, how can there be progress?

The level reflects that even after a year in which NATO troops killed an enormous number of Taliban and Taliban-suspects, the organization was able to replace them. Indeed, with public sentiment against the NATO occupation getting worse and worse, it may be a wonder that the insurgency isn’t larger still.

The Alchemist
07-01-11, 20:09
Way to go, Taliban :fpetaf:

Sallahddin
07-01-11, 21:21
:fpetaf:

Wizdom
08-01-11, 22:30
The Prophecy of Khorasan will be fulfilled even if the WEST moves HEAVEN and EARTH....

Sallahddin
10-01-11, 19:05
The Prophecy of Khorasan will be fulfilled even if the WEST moves HEAVEN and EARTH....


Exactly :

really amazing how under_equipped poor taliban could defeat the mighty NATO : great respect for taliban really , even though i don't agree with them on many things : May God help them if they happen to be on the right path at least !

fact is : all "great" empires had broken their teeth in shame under the great noble courageous Afghan resitances throughout history :

from before the British empire , the Soviet one to the US & NATO one ...