that the Taliban will continue to grow in strength .•• a rejection of the modern world, by violence if necessary.
The militants of the Taliban who returned to Afghanistan were these camp children. These were the men who ruled Afghanistan, and whom the Americans believed they had bombed into the ground. It now looks like the Americans were wrong. tégés. However this body of like-minded thinkers (the word "organisation" doesn't fit) that was based on all that was primitive, regressive and traumatised in Afghani society looks to be reemerging, especially along the Pakistani border. ment activity by armed groups, of which the Taliban will be the most cohesive. But fragments of Al-Qaida, forces linked to former prime minister • Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is attempting to destabilise the government of President Hamid Karzai, have also had attacks attributed to them. Italian and American troops which have resulted in a steady trickle of dead Americans. There is a justice of sorts in this. The Americans seem to have given themselves rules of engagement to murder Afghans with
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