A key part of the 3 page article
The fact remains, though, that while Taliban and NATO forces have confronted each other in various districts, there has been no serious Taliban move for a mass mobilization - as stated, all of the top Taliban commanders are tucked away in the border area with Pakistan, or even in that country. Maulana Jalaluddin Haqqani, head of the Taliban's military operations in Afghanistan, is in the Pakistani tribal area of North Waziristan - a virtually independent region in Taliban hands. The one-legged former Taliban intelligence chief Mullah Dadullah is also in Pakistani territory, shuttling between South Waziristan tribal area and border areas near Pakistan's Balochistan province and southwestern Afghanistan. Haqqani and Dadullah, on the instructions of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, are talking to tribespeople in southwestern and southeastern Afghanistan to smooth the path for the Taliban taking control. The Taliban are pledging to share everything with the tribes, including land, power and resources. This process is still ongoing and, according to people close to the Taliban, once it is completed the Taliban will call for a full mobilization of troops and Mullah Omar will go to Baghran to command them personally in the push to Kandahar and ultimately Kabul. Legendary former Afghan premier and mujahideen Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who operates near the Pakistani side of the Afghan Kunar Valley, has become involved in his own agenda, causing a bone of contention between the Taliban and Hekmatyar's Hizb-e-Islami Afghanistan (HIA). Hekmatyar has been considered an important player in the Taliban-led insurgency.
This PISSES ME OFF!!! Most of the top Taliban leaders are in Pakistan and we can't do a damn thing about it! AHHHH! Despite what that artcle says, I don't believe Mullah Omar will ever return to Afghanistan as long as foreign troops are there. Why risk it when he is safe and free to do whatever the hell he wants in Quetta, Pakistan? He is smarter than that. He knows if he returns to Afghan soil NATO will bomb the shit out of him. I guess the best way to describe that son of a bitch is he is 'wise coward'. His days of personally commanding any type force in Afghanistan is OVER! But, unless we do something about him, he'll continue to be a major pain in the ass from Pakistan!
The article claims the Taliban's plan is to take Baghran over and push forward from there. I tend to agree with what the NATO has to say, though.
However, NATO spokesman Mark Laity does not agree with this assessment. "Their [Taliban] intent was to hold the Panjwayee [district of Kandahar province] as a necessary part of their plan to encircle or take Kandahar city. In Helmand [province] they certainly intended to take Sangin, Musa Qala and Nowzad in the north and Garmsir in the south, with the desire to disrupt and isolate Lashkhar Gah [the capital of Helmand province]. In all of these respects, they failed," Laity told Asia Times Online
9 Taliban commanders and 3 or 4 senior leaders were killed in Panjawayee, Afghanistan in the last week. Why would that many important Taliban figures be operating there if something big wasn't planned for that area? I'm glad to see NATO thwarted the Taliban's plans!
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