As NATO struggles to find more troops to send to Afghanistan, the alliance appears to have achieved the impossible, but dangerous feat of uniting previously disparate warlords, tribes and militia. | Longish article but interesting. Names are named. |
US and British troops have stopped identifying them by their allegiance, and refer to them all as ACM - short for Anti-Coalition Militias - a collective word for the mixture of Taliban supporters, Pakistani jihadists, armed tribesmen, loyalists to various warlords and a sprinkling of foreign fighters who represent al-Qaeda.
One American soldier told a reporter at a US base: "I'm just a jarhead, sir, but if you ask me, sir, they're all bad guys. We find 'em, we kill 'em." |