The Pentagon has admitted the Taliban's military successes and warned that the Taliban has regrouped the forces of Mujahideen in Afghanistan. The new report by the US Department of Defense says that the Taliban have "coalesced into a resilient insurgency" 7 years after their initial fall from power when they left Kabul.
BBC reported: "Noting that insurgent violence has climbed, the report said that despite U.S. and coalition efforts to capture and kill key leaders, the Taliban is likely to "maintain or even increase the scope and pace of its terrorist attacks and bombings in 2008.""
Earlier this week the US command reported, "Insurgent attacks in eastern Afghanistan have increased 40 percent this year over last year".
At the same time the occupation command noted that the Taliban target not only puppet formations and the occupation force, but they also aim at "undermining the country's economic development".
Taliban attacks in Kabul on April 27, when a military parade was defeated and when Karzai narrowly escaped death, were especially painful for the puppet regime and the Western occupiers.
Plus a successful special operation on liberation of hundreds of captives from the Kandahar concentration camp and establishing control over the outskirts of Afghanistan's second largest city.
Even though NATO and Karzai's regime announced that the Taliban was forced out of several villages around Kandahar, Afghan Mujahideen still maintain control over vast territories north of the city. At the same time Karzai's claim that hundreds of Taliban fighters were allegedly killed in the battles were denied by the NATO command.
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