DanielMa wrote:siharry wrote:. Об этом ИТАР-ТАСС сообщил сегодня осведомленный военно-дипломатический источник со ссылкой на министерство обороны Афганистана.
Особенно меня радует когда ссылаються на "осведомленные" источники. Кто нибудь, кроме этого источника сообщал и потерях?
VYLE wrote:AB-K wrote:========
Таджикистан занимает второе место после России на территории бывшего СССР по природным гидроэнергетическим ресурсам. Тоже нехило.
а еще Таджикистан - самая высокогорная страна бывшего СССР. А также там самая высокая плотность таджиков на кв. км. Ну и что?
NEW DELHI, Sept. 11 — The resurgent Taliban has embarked on a strategy of small guerrilla attacks intended to frustrate and steadily bleed American forces in Afghanistan and to force the United States to expend billions of dollars in military costs, according to two Taliban officials interviewed recently.
Hajji Ibrahim, who identified himself as a Taliban commander, said the group's goal was to tie down the United States in Afghanistan and force it to spend huge sums responding to limited attacks that draw American forces "here to there, here to there." He confidently predicted that the United States, sapped by a slow, costly and grinding conflict, would abandon Afghanistan after two to three years, and repeatedly compared the current situation to the defeat of Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980's.
CBI wrote:He confidently predicted that the United States, sapped by a slow, costly and grinding conflict, would abandon Afghanistan after two to three years, and repeatedly compared the current situation to the defeat of Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980's.
486 wrote:Афганистан - демократическая страна и союзник США в коалиции по освобождению Ирака от ОМП. А все недоразумению происходящие на окраинах страны - мелкие инцинденты, используемые либералами для раздувания шумихи. Большинство афганцев стало жить лучше, в стране даже есть две школы для девочек и полицейский участок.
These were the same warlords who, vying for control of Kabul after the Russians left in 1989, pulverised the city, killing 50,000 civilians, half of them in one year, 1994, according to Human Rights Watch. Thanks to the Americans, effective control of Afghanistan has been ceded to most of the same mafiosi and their private armies, who rule by fear, extortion and monopolising the opium poppy trade that supplies Britain with 90% of its street heroin. The post-Taliban government is a facade; it has no money and its writ barely runs to the gates of Kabul, in spite of democratic pretensions such as the election planned for next year. Omar Zakhilwal, an official in the ministry of rural affairs, told me that the government gets less than 20% of the aid that is delivered to Afghanistan - "We don't even have enough money to pay wages, let alone plan reconstruction," he said. President Harmid Karzai is a placeman of Washington who goes nowhere without his posse of US Special Forces bodyguards.
In a series of extraordinary reports, the latest published in July, Human Rights Watch has documented atrocities "committed by gunmen and warlords who were propelled into power by the United States and its coalition partners after the Taliban fell in 2001" and who have "essentially hijacked the country". The report describes army and police troops controlled by the warlords kidnapping villagers with impunity and holding them for ransom in unofficial prisons; the widespread rape of women, girls and boys; routine extortion, robbery and arbitrary murder. Girls' schools are burned down. "Because the soldiers are targeting women and girls," the report says, "many are staying indoors, making it impossible for them to attend school [or] go to work."
In the western city of Herat, for example, women are arrested if they drive; they are prohibited from travelling with an unrelated man, even an unrelated taxi driver. If they are caught, they are subjected to a "chastity test", squandering precious medical services to which, says Human Rights Watch, "women and girls have almost no access, particularly in Herat, where fewer than one per cent of women give birth with a trained attendant". The death rate of mothers giving birth is the highest in the world, according to Unicef. Herat is ruled by the warlord Ismail Khan, whom US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld endorsed as "an appealing man... thoughtful, measured and self-confident".
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The American goal was now the realisation of a 60-year "dream" of building a pipeline from the former Soviet Caspian across Afghanistan to a deep-water port. The Taliban were offered 15 cents for every 1,000 cubic feet of gas that passed through Afghanistan. Although these were the Clinton years, pushing the deal were the "oil and gas junta" that was soon to dominate George W Bush's regime. They included three former members of George Bush senior's cabinet, such as the present vice-president, Dick Cheney, representing nine oil companies, and Condoleezza Rice, now national security adviser, then a director of Chevron-Texaco with special responsibility for Pakistan and Central Asia.
Peel the onion of this and you find Bush senior as a paid consultant of the huge Carlyle Group, whose 164 companies specialise in oil and gas and pipelines and weapons. His clients included a super-wealthy Saudi family, the Bin Ladens. (Within days of the September 11 attacks, the Bin Laden family was allowed to leave the US in high secrecy.)
Во вторник была взорвана штаб-квартира ООН в афганском городе Кандагар. Возле здания была припаркована машина, начиненная взрывчатым веществом. Теракт произошел через несколько минут после того, как в миссии закончился рабочий день, поэтому никто из ее сотрудников не пострадал. Единственной жертвой оказался проезжавший мимо мотоциклист - его в тяжелом состоянии доставили в больницу. Здание ООН серьезно повреждено: взрывная волна снесла главные ворота, повредила стены и выбила стекла в окнах. Организаторов теракта пока не нашли.
Тем временем в афганских провинциях Кунар и Лагман войска международной коалиции начали масштабную операцию против боевиков движения "Талибан". Но пока ее трудно назвать успешной: за сутки, прошедшие с начала операции, против двух убитых боевиков коалиция потеряла 11 американцев и двоих афганских военнослужащих. И если двое солдат США погибли в бою - в ходе перестрелки на военной базе в Асадабаде, - то гибель остальных военнослужащих выглядит довольно нелепо: при преследовании боевиков "Аль-Каэды" водитель машины не справился с управлением, и автомобиль упал в реку.
KABUL, Afghanistan - The United Nations (news - web sites) may be forced to abandon its two-year effort to stabilize Afghanistan (news - web sites) because of rising violence blamed on the resurgent Taliban, its top official here warned Friday in an interview with The Associated Press.
Lakhdar Brahimi said his team could not continue its work unless security improves. He called for more foreign troops to halt attacks that have killed at least 11 aid workers across the south and east since March.
"Countries that are committed to supporting Afghanistan cannot kid themselves and cannot go on expecting us to work in unacceptable security conditions," Brahimi said.
"They seem to think that our presence is important here. Well, if they do, they have got to make sure that the conditions for us to be here are there," he said. "If not, we will go away."