After Monday’s announcement that they are resuming attacks on the government, Taliban forces have hit targets in 17 different provinces. Fighting hit a number of sites, including army bases, but so far the casualties seem relatively low.
The Taliban has also made good on not attacking foreign troops in this new fighting, and while the US warned the peace is “fragile” US troops have yet to recommit militarily after the weekend peace deal.
At issue is that the US peace deal called for prisoner exchanges, and the Afghan government has refused to release them. President Ghani says this was something the US never had the right to promise the Taliban. The Taliban are saying this is non-negotiable, however.
Since this was part of the peace deal, the US doesn’t seem to be backing Ghani for not complying. Though US officials are urging the Taliban to return to reduction in violence, so far that doesn’t seem to include returning to violence themselves.
Don’t you just love it? The local traitors, installed, fed and clothed by the occupier think they are… sovereign! They dare speak.
The only people on earth retarded enough to believe any of this are US Congresscritters, no one else.
And yet a reader of CNN could only conclude that the Taliban was simply violating the ceasefire for no reason other than they are aggressive. And apparently at least one US drone bombing on Taliban attacking the Afghan puppet govt has already occurred since the agreement.