Yes, the focus must go on brutal Muslims in a story I don't believe.
I no longer believe in Zionist-controlled War Daily propaganda anymore.
But the last-paragraph excerpt (an all too typical occurrence at the Times) is noticeable:
"The Associated Press also reported that Taliban insurgents attacked a police convoy on Sunday in Ghazni Province, killing eight officers."
Got their man there, but he has to quote AP?
What is he doing; surfing the web all day?
Of course, the Times does not see fit to report in America what it will report to the world.
From the International Herald Tribune (the international version of the New York Times):
"KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP): Taliban insurgents in Ghazni province, meanwhile, ambushed a police convoy on Sunday, killing eight officers, said Abdul Khaliq Nikmal, spokesman for the provincial governor.
He said Afghan authorities have sent police reinforcements to the area and are meeting with U.S. military officials to plan a counterattack.
Violence has surged in Afghanistan in recent months. Last week alone violence killed more than 270 dead, including 165 militants killed in two large battles in the south and 30 people killed in a suicide bombing on an army bus in Kabul.
[And it was barely reported here!]
President Hamid Karzai on Sunday Karzai said he would be willing to meet personally with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and factional warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-i-Islami, in exchange for peace.
On Sunday, Karzai's spokesman, said there is "serious debate" among some Taliban fighters about laying down arms.
But the Taliban said international troops must first leave the country before any talks are held, a position mirrored by Hezb-i-Islami in an announcement Monday.
Haroon Zarghun, a purported spokesman for Hezb-i-Islami, told the AP by telephone:
"Negotiations with Karzai have no worth in the presence of American forces. Karzai has, in fact, no authority in the presence of American troops. Talks would be waste of time in such a situation. If the United States announces to leave Afghanistan, then we will be ready to hold talks."
In Helmand's Reg district, Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces, acting on intelligence reports, were pursuing militants hiding out in the area when they came under attack, the coalition said in a statement. The troops called in airstrikes and fought the militants in a gun battle.
More than 20 militants were killed, but there were no reports of civilians hurt. It was not immediately possible to verify the death toll independently."
Why you get fed shit, Amurkan?
Think they will tell me this tomorrow?
"Suicide bomber kills at least 12 in Kabul bus attack" by Arif Afzalzada/International Herald Tribune October 2, 2007
KABUL: A suicide bomber approached a bus carrying police officers and civilian employees of the Interior Ministry early Tuesday and blew himself up, killing at least 12 people, including at least one child, officials and witnesses said.
The bombing, coming at the beginning of rush hour in western Kabul, was the second suicide attack in four days against a bus carrying Afghan security forces.
The Taliban took responsibility for the attack, according to Reuters, which quoted an unnamed Taliban spokesman. On Saturday, the insurgency also took responsibility for a suicide attack on a bus in the capital packed with Afghan Army soldiers, which killed at least 30 people, including 28 soldiers and two civilians.
Ahmad Zia Yaftoli, the medical chief of the Afghan military, said in a telephone interview that the attack Tuesday had occurred on the western outskirts of the city when the bus stopped to pick up ministry employees to take them to work.
A man wearing a large Afghan shawl approached the bus, but the driver did not recognize him and told him he was forbidden to board, Yaftoli said.
The man tried to force himself onto the bus, but as the conductor pulled a pistol on him, the man blew himself up, the official said.
The explosion blew out the roof of the bus, peeled off its sides and sprayed the street with blood and body parts.
The victims included six police officers, five ministry employees and a child, Yaftoli said. Ten people were wounded, including four police officers who were in comas, he added.
Ahmad Saqi, a 20-year-old mechanic, told The Associated Press that he had helped to carry seven people to rescue vehicles and that several of those victims were missing legs. He said he saw at least four dead children.
"One woman was holding a baby in her arms, and they were both killed," Saqi told The AP."
[If Times gets reports from AP, how come they are so picky and choosy about what makes the American version of their paper?
Unless it is to FEED SHIT to the Amurkn people, right?]
For once and for all:
"U.N.: Violence in Afghanistan up almost 25 percent in '07" by Jonathan S. Landay/McClatchy Newspapers October 1, 2007
WASHINGTON — Afghanistan is currently suffering its most violent year since the 2001 U.S.-led intervention, according to an internal United Nations report that sharply contrasts with recent upbeat appraisals by President Bush and his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai.
"The security situation in Afghanistan is assessed by most analysts as having deteriorated at a constant rate through 2007," said the report compiled by the Kabul office of the U.N. Department of Safety and Security.
There were 525 security incidents — attacks by the Taliban and other violent groups, bombings, terrorism of other kinds, and abductions — on average every month during the first half of this year, up from an average of 425 incidents per month in 2006.
Last year was the most violent since the U.S. post-September 11 offensive that ousted the hard-line Taliban Islamic militia from power and drove Osama bin Laden and his al Qaida terrorists into neighboring Pakistan.
The U.N.'s Half-Year Review of the Security Situation in Afghanistan underscored the continuing resurgence of the Taliban, which many experts attribute to Bush's decision to shift troops and resources to Iraq, the U.S. failure to capture the militia's top leaders, and the refuge the militia has secured in the lawless tribal region of neighboring Pakistan.
There are currently about 40,000 U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan.
Bush and Karzai met for talks Friday in New York and later touted advances made since the Taliban's ouster, including reduced childhood mortality rates, and increases in the numbers of health clinics and children going to school.
"Afghanistan, indeed, has made progress," said Karzai. The following day, he offered to meet the Taliban's spiritual and political leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar and to offer militia members Cabinet seats if it would bring peace.
The U.N. report said that the nature of the Taliban insurgency has changed significantly since 2006.
Guerrillas have been staging fewer conventional attacks on U.S.-led NATO forces and Afghan troops and relying more heavily on suicide attacks, improvised explosive devices, assassinations, intimidation and abductions, it said.
"The Afghan National Police has become a primary target of insurgents and intimidation of all kinds has increased against the civilian population, especially those perceived to be in support of the government, international military forces as well as the humanitarian and development community," said the report.
The Taliban and associated groups have engaged in fewer large-scale clashes with foreign and Afghan forces because they suffered large numbers of casualties, including many mid-level and senior commanders, in conventional battles last year.
"Another reason must be the realization that these types of attacks are futile against a modern conventionally equipped military force supported by a wide range of air assets," said the report, which also noted improvements in the Afghan National Army.
A U.S. diplomat, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly, said the Taliban appeared to be trying to counter a U.S. and NATO counter-insurgency strategy - which is to undercut public support for the guerrillas through stepped up delivery of reconstruction and humanitarian aid.
"The insurgents are also trying to separate the people from the government. They are doing that by making people very reluctant to go and actively or passively support the government," he said. "We've got an enemy who is quick on his feet, responsive and adaptable to the changing environment."
[But don't worry, Amurkn!
My Zionist War Dailies assure me that we are winning, so no problem!]
