The top leadership of the Taliban is hiding in Balochistan province, Admiral Mike Mullen, the US Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said, this while talking informally, along with Richard Holbrooke, the US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, to a group of invitees at US Ambassador Anne Patterson’s house in the US embassy in Islamabad on April 6. Asked if the US was winning or losing the war in Afghanistan, Admiral Mullen said that since the US was not winning, it could be said that it was losing it. Admiral Mullen also said that the US was targeting Baitullah Mehsud now because he had established strategic links with al Qaeda in the past year or so and was facilitating al Qaeda’s attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
US winning or losing the war in Afghanistan?
The top leadership of the Taliban is hiding in Balochistan province, Admiral Mike Mullen, the US Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said, this while talking informally, along with Richard Holbrooke, the US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, to a group of invitees at US Ambassador Anne Patterson’s house in the US embassy in Islamabad on April 6. Asked if the US was winning or losing the war in Afghanistan, Admiral Mullen said that since the US was not winning, it could be said that it was losing it. Admiral Mullen also said that the US was targeting Baitullah Mehsud now because he had established strategic links with al Qaeda in the past year or so and was facilitating al Qaeda’s attacks on NATO forces in Afghanistan.
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