From McClatchy:KABUL, Afghanistan — Ghulam Farooq Hussainkhel lives on the outskirts of the Afghan capital in the latest district to fall under Taliban influence. A teacher, Hussainkhel moved last year from a neighboring district after surviving three Taliban assassination attempts for opening two girls' schools.
Taliban forces now occupy positions just five miles away from his home in Charasayab and terrorize his neighbors at night with demands that they house and feed their forces.
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My Comment: Criminal gangs, the Taliban, corrupt officials .... they are all the same, and they all deserved to be wiped out. I can understand why the U.S. surge is going to start in Kabul. They are going to use the same counter insurgency techniques that were used in Iraq .... and apply them to Afghanistan.
Kabul is probably going to be a very "bloody place" in the next few months.