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Bigmack

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Tue Jan 31, 2012, 11:07 PM Jan 2012

U.S. military says Taliban set to retake power: report

The United States military has said in a secret report that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control over Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw from the country, Britain's Times of London newspaper said Wednesday.

"Many Afghans are already bracing themselves for an eventual return of the Taliban," the newspaper said, quoting the report. "Once ISAF (NATO-led forces) is no longer a factor, Taliban consider their victory inevitable," it quoted the report.

The Times said the "highly classified" report was put together by the U.S. military at Bagram air base in Afghanistan for top NATO officers last month. The BBC also carried a report on the leaked document.

Large swathes of Afghanistan have already been handed back to Afghan security forces, with the last foreign combat troops due to leave by the end of 2014.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/01/us-afghan-nato-report-idUSTRE81006N20120201

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U.S. military says Taliban set to retake power: report (Original Post) Bigmack Jan 2012 OP
Let them have it. Just bring our troops home Thrill Jan 2012 #1
our mission was to get al queda, remember? turned in to corporate rape of the US taxpayer tho nt msongs Feb 2012 #2

msongs

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2. our mission was to get al queda, remember? turned in to corporate rape of the US taxpayer tho nt
Wed Feb 1, 2012, 12:47 AM
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