It would seem that Afghanistan is preparing for the return of the Taliban.
H/T Martin
ToloNews:
Afghanistan’s Minister of Energy and Water Mohammad Ismail Khan on Thursday said that the process of creating a military unit made up of the former mujahedeen fighters is underway to protect and secure Afghanistan because Nato had failed to do so.
Ismail Khan said in a gathering with former regional Jihadi commanders in west and southwest Afghanistan that the Mujahedeen should also be given more roles in the government as the foreign armies – the Nato-led international security assistance force Isaf – had failed to ensure stability in the country.
He emphasised that just as the Mujahedeen had previously driven out the foreign invaders, the Soviets, so too there was now a need for the Mujahedeen to again rescue the country from “foreign conspiracies”.
“The foreigners sidelined those who had fought for ages,” Ismail Khan said in western Herat province.
“They collected all our weapons, our artillery and tanks, and put them on the rubbish heap. Instead, they brought Dutch girls, French girls, girls from Holland, they armed American girls, they brought white-skinned Western soldiers, and black-skinned American soldiers, and they thought by doing all this they would bring security here but they failed,” he added.
Khan claimed that President Hamid Karzai is aware of the plans to re-form the mujahedeen armed forces.
“We have had detailed discussions with President Hamid Karzai, who is a Mujahed himself. We are planning on this strategy and the registration of people is underway,” he said.
They are on the ground and see what is really happening, another place that is going to get real interesting in the near future.
in article:: “Energy and Water Mohammad Ismail”
Note: there is no sanitation they live in it
As I’ve been saying to youtube jihadis who misstakenly gloat that we supposedly haven’t won in Afganistan; once The coalition NATO, UN etc leave, the Taliban is going to be wiped out because Afgan forces are not going to play by the rules like the western powers do.
Basically our military purpose there was to hammer them and keep them weak while the government forces can develop to the point that they can finish the job – and take the bad press that will (or most likely won’t) ensue.
If we had behaved like the Afgan forces are about to, it would jave just attracted more mujihadin to Afganistan, but in this case it will be muslims wiping out other muslims and jihadis don’t seem to have a problem with that.
So it may very well be Talibani bye bye time.
Of course that’s just one optomistic (and admittedly nasty) interpretation of this.
I’m discounting the anti foreigner talk because it’s just a way to unify the people of a country to a common cause. He seems to be saying “those foreigners don’t know how to do it so let’s work together and show them how it’s really done – gooooo team!”
Notice that he’s not kvetching about the western powers goals, but their success rate.
He could very well be creating a pro government paramilitary and is trying with this language to attract people who might otherwise get seduced by anti government islamist forces.
And don’t forget that in Afganistan, the Taliban is another “foreign conspiracy”, aided and abetted by a foreign power, Pakistan. And this guy sure doesn’t like foreign conspiracies.
Again I admit I’m being optomistic. It will most likely descend into the typical islamic chaos of aliances, truces and their concomitant betrayals.