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Title: Afghan INsurgency Stronger Than Ever
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CBS
URL Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008 ... in4594109.shtml?tag=topStories
Published: Nov 12, 2008
Author: staff
Post Date: 2008-11-12 06:24:44 by Ada
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CBS Evening News: Exclusive Video Shows Taliban Indoctrinating Extremely Young Men, Turning Them Into Suicide Bombers In exclusive video obtained by CBS News, a young Afghan student is sent on a suicide mission to find American targets. (CBS) President-elect Obama will inherit a war in Afghanistan with an insurgency that's stronger than ever, with attacks and U.S. casualties at its highest since the war began. Lara Logan reports. (CBS) The war President-elect Barack Obama is inheriting in Afghanistan includes an insurgency that's stronger than ever. And it's creeping ever closer to the Afghan capital. In a video obtained by CBS News, a U.S. convoy is attacked less than 20 miles from Kabul. "I think in Afghanistan, we really dropped the ball for a long time," said Karin von Hippel of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. It's now widely agreed America's new president needs a new approach, CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan reports. President-elect Obama's emerging strategy appears to shift focus to a regional solution to Afghanistan's problems. "A regional approach really means looking at Afghanistan and Pakistan through a similar lens but also it should also mean bringing in China, bringing in India, bringing in Iran, bringing in the neighbors to make sure that everyone is part of the same solution," von Hippel said. An exclusive video from Pakistan's tribal areas shows a group of young boys being indoctrinated. As Logan reports, this is the cost of not bringing in Afghanistan's neighbors. According to the Taliban, the boys' fate is to become suicide bombers over the Afghan border. The teenage boy seen in the video is about to blow himself up. The tape shows him saying goodbye to the men who packed his vehicle with explosives and heading off to find an American target. The boy's mentors erupt in victory cries as they film the suicide blast. Taliban attacks and U.S. casualties are the highest this year since the war in Afghanistan began. The region is so connected, that any of Afghanistan's neighbors could facilitate peace and security - or, as has been seen, make the situation a lot worse.
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
an insurgency stronger than ever and growing in response to our invasion...what do they expect?
You mean you do not accept that it is just coincidence???? What a cynical person you are.
But... but... WE'RE AMERICANS!!! They need to just recognize that fact, roll over, and die! Why wont they do that?
i find that intriguing. what do you think it means?
How can we have a dialogue with China when we have troops on their border, and getting stronger every day? China has been patient too long as is their nature. Would we enter into any discussion with China if they had military on our Mexican border????? Of course not.
Hope no one relapses. ;-)
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#2. To: christine (#1)
an insurgency stronger than ever and growing in response to our invasion...what do they expect?
#3. To: christine (#1)
an insurgency stronger than ever and growing in response to our invasion...what do they expect?
#4. To: Cynicom (#2)
"A regional approach really means looking at Afghanistan and Pakistan through a similar lens but also it should also mean bringing in China, bringing in India, bringing in Iran, bringing in the neighbors to make sure that everyone is part of the same solution," von Hippel said.
#5. To: christine (#4)
should also mean bringing in China, bringing in India,
#6. To: Ada (#0)
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