Suspected militants, along with their ammunition and vehicle, are shown to media after Afghan security forces arrested them in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq) From The Washington Post:
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The insurgency in Afghanistan has spread beyond Taliban strongholds in the south and east while the number of attacks in the country has reached a six-year high, a top U.N. envoy said on Tuesday.
Violence in Afghanistan this year is worse than at any time since U.S.-led and Afghan forces toppled the militant Islamist Taliban in 2001 and fears are growing among NATO members that they are losing both the military campaign and the support of ordinary Afghans.
"In July and August we witnessed the highest number of security incidents since 2002," U.N. special envoy to Afghanistan Kai Eide told the U.N. Security Council. The rise over the same period in 2007 was nearly 40 percent, he said.
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My Comment: Nato and the Afghan Government have one year to change the situation, if not there will be a cry to leave the country and to leave the Afghan people to fend for themselves.
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