A Decade In, Taliban Predicts Victory in Afghanistan
Spokesman Vows Fight Will Continue Against NATO
With everyone else issuing statements related to the tenth anniversary of the US invasion of Afghanistan, it was only a matter of time before the Taliban did as well. Today, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid issued the statement, in English oddly enough.
The statement praised the nation’s insurgents for continuing to fight despite “scarce weapons and equipment” and vowed to continue resisiting NATO’s military presence until the troops all withdraw.
But the statement stopped short of previous ones, which predicted “imminent” victory, rather insisting that victory was attainable only if their allies continued to fight as a united front, which would eventually force NATO out.
Though NATO has repeatedly claimed “progress” in the war against the Taliban, the estimates coming out of the nation suggest that the group remains strong, and efforts to reach a deal with them to end the conflict continue to fail.
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ridehard
October 7th, 2011 at 10:06 pm
The taliban should be careful and measure there words wisely. The Afgan warriors are the toughest fighters in the world. They are battle hardened and creative soldiers with the sole intent of liberating their country from any and all invaders. They are decendents of the soldiers in Alexander the Great's Army.. They might have tolerated the taliban in the past, to help fight their war against agression. But when NATO and the U.S. leave their country, the Afgans will not need them anymore. Then it will be open season on the taliban. The quickerr the U.S leaves, the sooner the Afgans will rid themselves of the trouble makers from within.and the sooner they can get back to normal. That's if they can even remember what normal is.
bob35983
October 8th, 2011 at 12:52 am
This is probably the truest statement concerning the Afghanistan adventure made in years. Economic realities will put end to this despite all the vain murmurings issued from the Pentagon.
John Ellis
October 8th, 2011 at 6:21 am
There is a good aspect to war, what with the history of this world being one war after another, and that is the good knowledge of how to do it wrong. For whether we humans evolved or were created, to trust only in the knowledge gained by experience is the only way to overcome this liar’s paradise called earth.
thedissenter
October 8th, 2011 at 8:43 am
And the Taliban are right. They don't call Afghanistan The Graveyard of Empires for nothing. The present state of affairs in the US prove it to even the blindest, most fanatical and stupidest of the lot.
Augustbrhm
October 8th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
The Taliban thinks the same way as you do not know what normal is as you live among murderers,rapist,invaders,destroyers of civilizations[as in Iraq] filth vermin that came out of the british jails up until 1776.
Augustbrhm
October 8th, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Your comment is succinct and to the point "well said"
persnipoles
October 8th, 2011 at 4:42 pm
"efforts to reach a deal with [the Taliban] to end the conflict continue to fail." Well, but wasn't the deal to submit to US gun control and kiss the a## of the US puppets? Forgiving the drone terrorism –forgetting that they 'sent' wussies in front of their nintendos to bomb your weddings? Now, why would such 'efforts' continue to fail?
sam stone
October 8th, 2011 at 6:51 pm
America my well loss the war, however those whose interests they searve will gain. it's the way it has always been, and always will be, as long as the uneducated remain that way.