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British troops could be in Afghanistan for another 20 years, according to a main opposition Conservative MP and Territorial Army soldier who has just returned from a tour of duty there.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=913762


From Information Clearing House

Figures released by the Nato occupation force say the attacks are part of an intensified Taliban "insurgency" that has brought the worst violence since 2001.

http://www.itv.com/news/world_cd213afb54fa133e5d434bdd2740d667.html


From Information Clearing House

http://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/10/afghanistan-nato-is-now-us-ato.html


Informant: Jennifer Van Bergen

From ufpj-news

U.S. jets mistakenly strafed Canadian occupation soldiers in Afghanistan on Monday, killing one and bringing to five the number of Canadian troops killed during a major push against the Taliban this weekend.

http://tinyurl.com/fyay4


From Information Clearing House

New Report Says
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/05/1430204


From Information Clearing House

Tom Paine
by Jim Lobe

10/04/06

Five years after the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was putting the final touches on a brilliant campaign plan to oust the Taliban and its al-Qaida allies from power, Afghanistan is back in the headlines here, and the news isn't good. An unexpectedly fierce and prolonged Taliban offensive that began last spring has U.S. and NATO officials deeply worried that they face a serious insurgency fueled by a thriving drug trade and growing popular disaffection with the government of President Hamid Karzai. Greatly compounding their concern is Pakistan's cease-fire agreement with pro-Taliban, Pashtun tribal leaders signed earlier this month to withdraw thousands of army troops from North Waziristan and release several hundred Taliban and al-Qaida militants from jail...

http://tinyurl.com/rwcae


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Nearly five years after the US military drove the Taliban out of Afghanistan, total victory appears as distant and remote as the long-embattled nation itself. In fact, after several years of relative calm, the Taliban and al-Qaeda have staged a dramatic comeback.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/100406S.shtml