US forces expect Taliban, al-Qaeda terror attacks in Afghanistan

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BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFP) - US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan (news - web sites) expect Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters to resort to terror attacks after their failure on the battlefield.

Colonel Rodney Davis said the Taliban and al-Qaeda have been reluctant to attack coalition forces en masse, opting not to confront troops engaged in a major US-led Afghan national army combat operation underway in southeast Afghanistan.

"They tend not to want to take us on head-on and this is when they typically resort to acts of terrorism: criminal acts, killing people in mosques, burning up schools," the colonel told reporters on Saturday at Bagram Air Base 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Kabul.

"Given the fact that we're experienced in this type of warfare, we would expect anti-coalition forces to probably try to commit acts of terrorism, because whenever they are unable to be successful on the battlefield they resort to criminal and terrorist acts so of course we're preparing ourselves for any possibility," he said.

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1. "Terror attacks"....

This phrase has lost its meaning.

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2. well that was to the point

and well said.