Is Taleban getting desperate?
Aside from extraordinary prowess at killing innocent unarmed humanitarians, brutalizing girls and murdering women including their pre 911 breakthrough hit "Dynamiting Buddha," Taleban battlefield exploits have been few and far between.
Last seen unassing the AO on a moto scooter, the Taliban's tyrannis terribles the one eyed Mullah Omar has been rumoured to still be about - maybe in Pakistan - maybe rewriting the Taliban's RoE
Rumours about "Commander of the faithful" - Amir-ul-Momineen - Mullah Omar have dang near driven Taliban into a totally raison d'jank etre:
"...Without their faith in Mullah Omar’s divinely inspired leadership, the Taliban would almost surely collapse into a welter of rival clans and factions."...Those splits are more visible now, as the doubts and divides grow with every false report. Nearly a dozen Taliban commanders who were interviewed by NEWSWEEK for this story say Omar’s silence has become an urgent topic among the Taliban leadership.
"...Perhaps the enigmatic Mullah Omar—if in fact he’s alive and at liberty—is waiting for the right moment to show himself. But meanwhile the cracks in his insurgency are deepening. Unless he surfaces soon, his hopes of returning to power could disappear as completely as he has.
Pic - "Desperate"
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ReplyDeleteClearly the Taliban is just busy hunting down the names of people Wikileaks was kind enough to provide for them. They're too busy to actually fight a war, that's all...
J'appelle Anna, mon rubis...
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"battlefield exploits are few and far between..."
ReplyDeleteLet's not forget their ability to overrun COP Keating, or the firebase at Wanat.
Yes, by and large they are a bunch of country bumpkins with guns. But the day we underestimate them all is the day we loose the war...
--Lt. Dan
To be fair - no one seems to underestimate Taliban or Haqqies or the myriad groups, tribes or ISI's cats.
ReplyDeleteLots of people tend to underestimate Great Satan though...
The chicken or the egg? Irregular warfare is the asymmetrical response to not being able to win on the battlefield.
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