If we could only get more of the Taliban to start blowing up their own houses and killing themselves. I do wonder...do they get the 72 virgins if they blow themselves up without taking any innocent people with them? Here's the report from Yahoo News:
At least one of the Taliban blown to bits was involved in the attack on President Karzai's assassination attempt so it really didn't take the Afghans long to track down some of the cell that pulled that off. Probably the most worrisome thing here is the fact that they had this house full of enough explosives to blow the entire home up and this home was IN KABUL. The Taliban have vowed this year to make Kabul a target and it is thought that there are very few Taliban actually in the city. But the fact of the matter is...when the assassination attempt was made on Karzai, the belief was that these were Taliban that came into the city and infiltrated security operations. The fact that this group was holed up inside of a house inside the city is troubling.
This might not be the Spring of the huge taunted Taliban spring offensive but it's almost guaranteed that this will a time of unprecedented attacks and off the wall violence. The Taliban know some NATO members are tiring of the fight and they figure with more and more attacks, the more futile the effort against them will seem.
Five Taliban militants blew themselves up in a house in the Afghan capital Kabul after 10 hours of clashes with besieging Afghan security forces on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry official told Reuters.
Afghan security forces surrounded a house where the suspected militants were holed up during the night and clashes erupted. The crack of small arms fire could be heard through the morning as state security officers led army and police battling the gunmen.
"They were killed when they blew themselves up in the house. There were five of them," said an Interior Ministry official who declined to be named.
At least one of the Taliban blown to bits was involved in the attack on President Karzai's assassination attempt so it really didn't take the Afghans long to track down some of the cell that pulled that off. Probably the most worrisome thing here is the fact that they had this house full of enough explosives to blow the entire home up and this home was IN KABUL. The Taliban have vowed this year to make Kabul a target and it is thought that there are very few Taliban actually in the city. But the fact of the matter is...when the assassination attempt was made on Karzai, the belief was that these were Taliban that came into the city and infiltrated security operations. The fact that this group was holed up inside of a house inside the city is troubling.
This might not be the Spring of the huge taunted Taliban spring offensive but it's almost guaranteed that this will a time of unprecedented attacks and off the wall violence. The Taliban know some NATO members are tiring of the fight and they figure with more and more attacks, the more futile the effort against them will seem.
Taliban militants kill themselves in Afghan siege
While the Taliban have launched sporadic suicide attacks in Kabul, the militants have not before been detected in any numbers inside the city which they have vowed to target this year in their fight to overthrow the pro-Western Afghan government.
The clash comes just days after Taliban gunmen fired at a state parade sending President Hamid Karzai, his cabinet and the military top brass diving for cover. Three people were killed in Sunday's attack before troops killed three Taliban attackers.
One of the men who died in Wednesday's siege had taken part in the parade attack, a Taliban spokesman said. One other militant, a woman and her daughter were also killed in a raid on the house, the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press quoted the spokesman as saying.
Afghan security forces surrounded a house where the suspected militants were holed up during the night and clashes erupted. The crack of small arms fire could be heard through the morning as state security officers led army and police battling the gunmen.
"They were killed when they blew themselves up in the house. There were five of them," said an Interior Ministry official who declined to be named.
Police were looking into whether there were casualties caused by the explosion among civilians in neighboring houses, he said.
Two officers of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), the state security and intelligence service, were also killed in the fighting, a police official said.
Taliban fighters fled Kabul in late 2001 to escape a U.S.-led aerial onslaught and a ground assault by Afghan militia.
In the years immediately after 2001, the Taliban regrouped and two years ago relaunched their insurgency with guerrilla attacks on Afghan and international troops mainly in the south and east, backed by suicide bombs across the country.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) is due to hand security of the capital over to Afghan forces in the second half of this year. This week's attacks have led many in parliament and among the public at large to question whether Afghanistan's security apparatus is up to the task.
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Readers know that this GWOT will last for a long, long time. It will be expensive in both treasure and lives. Just imagine what it will be like in 2 years (in the most optimistic guess) when Iran has enriched enough for a bomb or twelve.
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