[news] U.S. and Afghan Government Frustrated by Taliban's Resilience

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By Carlotta Gall - Monday, August 4, 2008

The Taliban are demonstrating a resilience and ferocity that are sowing alarm [in Kabul], in Washington and in other NATO capitals, and engendering a fresh round of soul-searching over how a relatively ragtag insurgency has managed to keep the world's most powerful armies at bay...Afghan and NATO officials say the Taliban today operate much as the mujahedeen did in the 1980s, when they used Pakistan as a rear base to drive off the Soviet Army...  


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