War on terror
Taliban
Making High-Profile Attacks Ahead of US Drawdown
Fox
News | Dec 03, 2014 | by Justin Fishel and Jennifer Griffin
The Taliban are flexing their muscle with a series of
high-profile attacks in recent weeks, showing they are far from defeated as the
U.S. prepares to withdraw most of its forces from Afghanistan at year's end.
The Taliban have staged at least 12 attacks targeting
foreigners in the past three weeks, many of them inside Kabul.
Although the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John
Campbell, has said any talk of a Taliban resurgence is "absolutely
false," critics who have watched the Islamic State sweep over Iraq after
the U.S. withdrawal are looking on nervously.
The Afghanistan attacks come as the U.S. prepares to
pull out all but nearly 10,000 troops.
Retired Gen. Jack Keane, a Fox News military analyst,
said the current problem in Kabul was avoidable…
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