The real test of NATO - 12,000 Taliban fighters battling coalition forces and 500 suicide bombers blowing up infrastructures
Kiran Chaube
Sep. 17, 2006

12,000 Taliban fighters battling coalition forces and 500 suicide bombers blowing up infrastructures. The real test of NATO and the coalition forces is here. Can they perform where the Soviets failed miserably?

According to media sources, Mullah Dadullah, the most wanted Taliban official after Mullah Mohammed Omar, claimed that he personally had under his command some 12,000 fighters battling coalition forces in four southwestern Afghan provinces and 500 suicide bombers, The News reported Sept. 17. According to a report in the Pakistani English-language daily, the Taliban commander warned of larger attacks next spring and that they would focus on targeting Kabul.

The British head of NATO forces in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. David Richards, said at a Sept. 17 press conference that NATO and Afghan government troops had successfully had dislodged Taliban fighters from a district some 15 miles west of Kandahar.

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