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from our
Afghanistan
monitor
Karzai and Musharraf Meet to Counter Taliban
Resurgence
Spate of Taliban Raids in Afghanistan: New Jihad
message from Gulbuddin
Hikmatyar
Pakistani
military helicopter down in border
area: 70,000 Musharref troops
try to seal border
The Taliban resurgence has become strong
enough to make more
coordination necessary between America's two
surrogates in the area: General
Musharraf of Pakistan and Karzai, the "ruler" of
Kabul.
Karzai arrived in Pakistan and had secret
meetings with General
Musharraf and public relations meetings with
Prime Minister Jamali. Karzai
declared that the Taliban were "terrorists" and
Saddam was a "usurper."
[Karzai left on April 23.]
Before, during and after the meetings,
Taliban attacks against Afghan
mercenary forces and U.S. troops continued on a
daily basis. The most daring
was an attack on
AMERICAN
FORCES in which, the
U.S. says, two American troops
were killed and 4 wounded. This was a lightning
raid, whose speed can be
gauged from the report that the U.S. force under
attack called in air support
which took only 20 minutes to appear, but the
Taliban had struck and
disappeared BEFORE air support emerged. [The
attack took place in a desolate
area called SHKEN, in Paktika province, adjacent
to the Northern Waziristan
area of Pakistan.]
The Taliban have started killing Karzai's
mercenary Afghan forces in
increasing numbers
with almost no losses for themselves, which is a
principle of classic
guerrilla warfare based on the Hadith of the
Prophet (pbuh) that: Al-Harb
khud'a
A new message has emerged in Afghan
villages from
mujahideen
leader
Gulbuddin Hikmatyar urging people to join the
growing jihad against America.
Without help of modern
media,
the "primitive"
Afghans have devised new ways
of spreading the message, in hand written letters
often pasted in the village
square.
The green banners of Islam are gathering
in the rugged hills of
eastern, southeastern and southwestern
Afghanistan. Pakistani reports say
that the Taliban control the night in 8 provinces
of Afghanistan. In two
provinces, Zabul and Oruzgan, they have taken day
time, formal control of
several districts.
To check the area of daily strikes by the
Taliban, buy a beautiful, large
sized map which has been produced by an Afghan
company (nothing to do with
Taliban) in Arizona. It comes for $12. Order from
AfghanMap@yahoo.com
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Pakistani observers say that if U.S. air power
were withdrawn, the armies of
Islam could reach Kabul in one day. These
observers think that the FUTURE OF
the ISLAM-U.S. CONFLICT will be decided in
Afghanistan, and the Taliban,
scampering like goats over the rocky terrain of
this blood soaked nation, may
well force the U.S. to withdraw, just as the
Afghans once forced the Soviets
to retreat with their tails between their legs.
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America's main hope in the area is GENERAL
MUSHARRAF. After getting a
billion dollars from
Bush,
the general has put
the honor and integrity of
Pakistan on the line to defeat the Taliban. Under
Musharraf's orders, 70,000
Pakistani troops are trying desperately to seal
the border with Afghanistan.
It appears that in the process, Musharraf is
willing to get Pakistani troops
killed and to destroy the Taliban. IN THE MOST
RECENT INCIDENT, April 24, a
Pakistani military helicopter went down in north
Waziristan, and 13 Pakistani
forces, including 7 officers, were killed.
Pakistan says the incident is
"being investigated." [Nawai Waqt.]
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Taliban attack kills 9 Afghan militiamen
By Rahimullah Yusufzai
Jang News International - Pakistan
PESHAWAR: The Taliban claimed on Wednesday (April
23) that their fighters
had seized the headquarters of the Deh-i-Chopan
district in
Zabul province in southwestern Afghanistan and
captured its
pro-government head and his seven men.
A Taliban spokesman, Mohammad Mukhtar Mujahid,
told The News
that about nine militiamen loyal to President
Hamid Karzai's
government were killed in the Taliban attack. He
said the
Taliban lost one of their fighters named Abdur
Rahim while six
others were injured in the fighting.
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DARE DEVIL ATTACKS ON INDIAN FORCES IN
OCCUPIED KASHMIR
During the last week, April 20 to 27, new
fighting erupted in Kashmir, a
Muslim country occupied by a huge Indian army.
Reports indicate that 77
people have been killed in ONE week and 170
wounded. At least 25 of these
were Indian troops, killed in raids by Lashkare
Taiba mujahideen. Another 20
were Indian paramilitary forces also killed in
Lashkare Taiba ambushes, 17
were mujahideen from the Lashkar ambushed by
elite
Indian
troops, and the
remaining were civilians either killed by enraged
Indian troops or caught in
the crossfire.
On April 26, a mujahideen group not heard
from in a long time, Harakat
al-Mujahideen, launched a daring attack on Indian
controlled radio station in
central Srinagar. Five Indian troops and the
three mujahideen were killed in
the attack which brought the city to a stand
still.
REASON BEHIND THE FIGHTING: India's racist
Prime Minister, Atal Bihari
Vajpayee, recently visited occupied Kashmir under
a heavy security screen.
Following that there were reports that Pakistan's
Gen. MUSHARRAF and VAJPAYEE
are working out a deal between them which would
put an END TO THE ISSUE of
Kashmir as far as Pakistan is concerned.
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