svero
9th April 2003, 09:49 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Reviving-Taliban.html
From the above article--> (there's more if you read it)
"KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Before executing the International Red Cross worker, the Taliban gunmen made a satellite telephone call to their superior for instructions: Kill him?
Kill him, the order came back, and Ricardo Munguia, whose body was found with 20 bullet wounds last month, became the first foreign aid worker to die in Afghanistan since the Taliban's ouster from power 18 months ago.
The manner of his death suggests the Taliban is not only determined to remain a force in this country, but is reorganizing and reviving its command structure.
There is little to stop them. The soldiers and police who were supposed to be the bedrock of a stable postwar Afghanistan have gone unpaid for months and are drifting away."
It gives one misgivings about celebrating Saddams departure. While everyone is happy to see him go, Saddam being gone is really only an improvement if he is replaced with something better, and if Afghanistan is any indication of the kind of commitment to nation building we'll see, the future bodes poorly for Iraqis.
From the above article--> (there's more if you read it)
"KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- Before executing the International Red Cross worker, the Taliban gunmen made a satellite telephone call to their superior for instructions: Kill him?
Kill him, the order came back, and Ricardo Munguia, whose body was found with 20 bullet wounds last month, became the first foreign aid worker to die in Afghanistan since the Taliban's ouster from power 18 months ago.
The manner of his death suggests the Taliban is not only determined to remain a force in this country, but is reorganizing and reviving its command structure.
There is little to stop them. The soldiers and police who were supposed to be the bedrock of a stable postwar Afghanistan have gone unpaid for months and are drifting away."
It gives one misgivings about celebrating Saddams departure. While everyone is happy to see him go, Saddam being gone is really only an improvement if he is replaced with something better, and if Afghanistan is any indication of the kind of commitment to nation building we'll see, the future bodes poorly for Iraqis.