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| Taliban Offensive Opens with Rocket Attack on Kabul Airport |
| 2014-05-13 |
| [AnNahar] The Taliban launched their annual "spring offensive" on Monday by firing rockets at Kabul airport, but the attack missed its target and caused no casualties, Afghan officials said. At least two rockets went kaboom!at 5:00 am (0030 GMT), the exact time that the bully boyz had vowed to start a new nationwide operation against U.S.-led foreign forces and Afghan government facilities. Taliban leaders said last week that the offensive, which will be the last before NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... combat troops withdraw from Afghanistan, would cleanse "the filth of the infidels" from the country. "Two rockets landed north of Kabul international airport," Sediq Sediqqi, the interior ministry front man, told Agence La Belle France Presse. "There were no casualties." NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed it was investigating the attack on the airport, where it has a military base. It also said that mortars been fired at Bagram airport, the biggest ISAF base in Afghanistan, which lies north of Kabul. The Taliban grabbed credit for the attacks via a recognized Twitter account, and said other strikes had been carried out across the country. The "Khaibar" offensive, named after an ancient battle between Moslems and Jews, will coincide with a second round of elections next month to choose a successor to President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtunface on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use... , who has ruled since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. About 51,000 U.S.-led NATO troops still deployed in Afghanistan are set to withdraw by December, ending a long and costly battle to defeat the rebels, who launched a fierce insurgency after being ousted from power. A small number of U.S. troops may stay on from next year on a training and counter-terrorism mission, but the Taliban warned that the insurgency would continue against even a few thousand U.S. troops. The Taliban "insists on the unconditional withdrawal of all invading forces," the group said in an English-language statement on its website last week. The statement said that attacks during the coming "fighting season" would target U.S. military bases, foreign embassies and vehicle convoys, as well as Afghan officials, politicians and translators. Afghanistan's fighting season traditionally begins in April or May as snow recedes from the mountains, and the Taliban mark the occasion with an annual declaration to attack foreign forces and unseat the Kabul government. |
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