On 9 Aug 2002 at 13:52, rhinoceros wrote:
>
> 15 killed in gunfight at Kabul army base
>
> Rory McCarthy in Islamabad
> Thursday August 8, 2002
> The Guardian
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,770851,00.html
>
> <snip>
>
> "They were Arabs and Pakistanis," said Bismillah Khan, the garrison
> commander and a senior military figure in the Northern Alliance. He
> said the gunmen "came from the south of Kabul, from the direction of
> the mountains and villages".
>
> Although international security assistance force troops patrol Kabul,
> their remit stops at the city's border. Further south, the Northern
> Alliance, which now dominates the Kabul government, has little
> influence.
>
Apparently pockets of resistance remain, or continue to arrive. There
should be a wider coalition security presence in Afghanistan proper, not
just Kabul. It is a failing of the present course to believe that all the
Afghan insurgency problems can be dealt with by means of military
campagns that pack up and return to base when the shooting stops.
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