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Sat 16 Sep, 2006 02:07 am
From a very interesting, extinsive special in tpday's The Guardian (on the frontapage, pages 8 & 9 of the print edition)
Kandahar under threat, war raging in two provinces and an isolated president. So what went wrong?
Full online report:
Better paid, better armed, better connected - Taliban rise again
Local insurgents often have the upper hand in guerilla warfare. They know the terrain like the back of their hand and can choose when to lie low and when to attack.
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Tito and his merry men in Yugoslavia could not be defeated by the German occupiers. They lived in the mountains and received help from the locals. They also were aided from the air by the Brits.
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The Taliban probably receive help from the drugdealers and warlords, who sit in Kabul government positions.
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