Article: AFGHANISTAN - June 19 - Taliban Terror Attacks Due To Frustration, Karzai Argues.

Taliban insurgents shift their tactics to rely more on terrorist attacks in part out of frustration with their flagging insurgency campaign, according to President Hamid Karzai and the commander of American military forces in Afghanistan. Karzai also said that recent suicide bombings and other attacks against the police had been part of the Taliban's reaction to the development of an Afghan Army. More Afghan Army units have been fighting with American and NATO soldiers this year, and the US has made clear that its long-term ambition is to prepare Afghan soldiers and police to operate independently. Karzai suggested that the Taliban had not expected foreign trainers to be ...

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