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    Friday, November 02, 2007

    FOREIGN TALEBAN RILE HELMAND RESIDENTS


    FOREIGN TALEBAN ( al Qaeda? ) RILE HELMAND RESIDENTS

    Afghans in the troubled province say many of the insurgents
    are not
    Pashtuns but incomers from other countries who behave in a
    high-handed and
    aggressive way towards local civilians.

    By IWPR trainees in Helmand

    Abdujalil is still angry at the rough treatment the Taleban
    meted out
    to him while he was on way home to the Khaneshin district
    from the
    provincial capital, Lashkar Gah.

    “I went to the city on business, said Abdujalil (not his real
    name).
    “I was stopped by the Taleban on the way back. They searched
    me,
    accused me of spying, and then took me to their base.
    They asked me a lot
    of questions and said I was a spy for the government.
    They warned me
    that they’d kill me if I ever came to Lashkar Gah again.”

    The young man insists his captors were foreigners rather
    than Afghans,
    as were most of the insurgent fighters at the Taleban base
    where they
    took him.

    “Many of them were [Pakistani] Punjabis,” he said. “The rest
    were
    from somewhere else. I wouldn’t be so angry if they had
    been Afghan,
    but now foreigners are playing with us.”

    Once at the insurgents’ base, he said, he was lucky enough
    to run
    into a local member of the Taleban who knew him and helped
    secure his
    release.

    The presence of foreign fighters is an explosive issue in
    war-ravaged
    Helmand, where fierce battles between the insurgents and the
    international forces take place almost continuously, and
    suicide attacks occur on
    a weekly, sometimes daily basis. Most residents agree that
    security is
    their biggest problem.

    People in Helmand claim much of the trouble stems not from
    Afghan
    Taleban, but from insurgents trained in Pakistan who flow
    in through the
    porous border. Religious schools and training centres in
    Pakistani cities
    such as Quetta and Peshawar turn out suicide bombers and
    jihadi
    fighters who then come to Afghanistan to cause mischief.

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    1 Comments:

    Blogger Cannoneer No. 4 said...

    "Foreign" Taliban are essentially Al Qaeda. There may be some small numbers of Baluchis and Uzbeks accepted as Taliban, but the overwhelming majority of Taliban are Pashtuns.

    They may not even be al Qaeda, but drug lord mercenary bands dressed to look like Taliban.

    8:23 PM  

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