Taliban 'kill Afghan spy chief'

[AussieInCA]

I thought we got rid of these guys...

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/12/1081621894951.html

Remnants of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban have killed a top intelligence chief and captured three districts near the border with Pakistan, a spokesman for the Islamic militia said.

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Up to one third of the country, mostly in the south and east, is effectively off-limits to foreign aid workers because of the security threat, which is of increasing concern as the country heads towards elections in September.

[Trajan]

1. Hmmmmm ... Fascinating ....

Afghanistan is falling apart as well ....

George Bush should be flayed BY CONSERVATIVES for his malfeasance on the battlefield ...

[dArKeR]

2. Flayed by the 'Watch Dogs' of Democracy, the Media. Should they be the

ones reporting on Junior's accomplishments in the Afghanistan battlefield?

[Zo Zig]

3. Last time

there was a killing similar to this in Afghanistan, all hell broke lose in the US. Just thinking out loud.

[mulethree]

4. replacements?

By the time of the Soviet withdrawal, Pakistan was home to an enormous—and generally unwelcome—Afghan refugee population. The badly strained Pakistani education system had little ability or interest in extending secular education to the refugees or to many Pakistanis, where the government increasingly viewed privately funded religious schools as a cost-free alternative. Over time, these schools produced large numbers of halfeducated young men with no marketable skills but deeply held fundamentalist views.
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South Asia has given birth to some of the most influential
schools of Islamic fundamentalist thought, whose views shaped Taliban thinking. In addition, since the 1970s the influence of the Wahhabi school of Islam has grown as a result of Saudi-funded institutions and contact with Wahhabi ideas in Afghanistan.
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These young men, a ready source of manpower for both continued fighting in Afghanistan and the Kashmir insurgency, provided the continuing core of what, by 1994, became the Taliban movement. Imposing a ruthless version of Islamic law, the Taliban seemed to be a potential force for order.
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Secret Pakistani aid for the Taliban seemed for a time to make sense to the army as part of an effort to gain what some officers called “strategic depth” in a possible conflict with India. Their
tolerance of Bin Ladin made sense to them too, at least for a time, in part because Bin Ladin’s terrorist training camps were also training fighters for Pakistani-sponsored operations in Kashmir.

http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing8/staff_statement_5.pdf


Oh, it seems you and me are paying for these schools too -
President Bush has reversed course and acknowledged that global poverty is also the incubator of transnational terrorism.

He is now requesting an additional $5 billion in aid for developing countries, or a 14 percent hike over current levels of $11 billion a year. But the most poisonous breeding grounds for jihadis, or holy Islamist warriors against the Judeo-Christian-Hindu civilizations, are receiving scant attention with a measly $34 million.

That is the amount the United States has agreed to give Pakistan in this fiscal year to support the long overdue reforms of the madrassa (Koranic school) network that has brainwashed some 4 million young men to hate America, Israel and India during the past 10 years. Almost 1 million kids are now in some 7,500 madrassas where they receive free board and lodging and dawn-to-dusk recitations of the Koran to the exclusion of all other disciplines. The curriculum is heavily larded with messages about America being the fount of all evil, all subsidized by Saudi Arabia's generously funded Wahhabi clergy.

http://www.upi.com/print.cfm?StoryID=15032002-061643-2669r

Hmm additional $5biln is 14% hike over current $11Biln? Sounds more like 40%