Taliban Threat Is Said to Grow in Afghan South

Taliban Threat Is Said to Grow in Afghan South - New York Times


"During the day the people, the police and the army are with the government, but during the night, the people, the police and the army are all with the Taliban and Al Qaeda."
HAJI SAIFULLAH, a shopkeeper in Tirin Kot, Afghanistan.

"Building on a winter campaign of suicide bombings and assassinations and the knowledge that American troops are leaving, the Taliban appear to be moving their insurgency into a new phase, flooding the rural areas of southern Afghanistan with weapons and men."