If the continued insurgency in Afghanistan represents a failure of dialogue, the spat between the Taliban and the press office of the international security assistance force (Isaf) on Wednesday proved that they are ready to exchange words directly, even if their comments offered little hope of peace being forged anytime soon.
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It's got ISAF on it, it's got a number of embassies, the presidential palace is around the corner.
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The ISAF reported on Saturday the earlier arrests and killings of four other insurgent commanders in three different provinces, Khost, Paktika and Helmand, part of the military's ongoing campaign to focus on midlevel leaders.
In the aftermath of an ISAF raid on Friday night that left two Afghan civilians dead, two senior Afghan police officials were relieved of duty, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry confirmed in an interview on Monday.
Col. Khan's security force protects NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) convoys on the main road from Kandahar to Tarin Kowt, where more than 1,000 Australian troops are based at Camp Holland, according to the The Australian in April 2008.
"This has been stated very much, over months, about operations in the entire border area, stretching on its entire length, in sometimes very complicated terrain and in the necessity of Afghan security forces, Pakistani security forces, and ISAF pulling on the same string and fighting, at the end, the same enemy," Jacobson said.
"The focus on ISAF right now is on Kabul," Mr. Cheney said, using the acronym for the International Security Assistance Force, as the international peacekeepers are known.
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The headlines created by such violence are disproportionate to their military significance: Haqqani operations account for one-tenth of the attacks on ISAF troops, and perhaps 15 percent of casualties, senior American officials estimate.
