U.S. Says Taliban Has A New Haven In Pakistan -- Washington Post
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- As American troops move deeper into southern Afghanistan to fight Taliban insurgents, U.S. officials are expressing new concerns about the role of fugitive Taliban leader Mohammad Omar and his council of lieutenants, who reportedly plan and launch cross-border strikes from safe havens around the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta.
But U.S. officials acknowledge they know relatively little about the remote and arid Pakistani border region, have no capacity to strike there, and have few windows into the turbulent mix of Pashtun tribal and religious politics that has turned the area into a sanctuary for the Taliban leaders, who are known collectively as the Quetta Shura.
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1 comment:
hi,
U.S. officials acknowledge they know relatively little about the remote and arid Pakistani border region. my question is if they know at least so much about the region that it would give them the excuse for not withdrawing from there. jay
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