AFGHANISTAN: THE NEW IRAQ? (II)

Afghan rebels are now travelling to Iraq to learn from insurgents there and returning home equipped with deadlier weapons and new techniques to use against US troops, analysts and reports say....

"Whether it's some old Taliban or some new insurgency, some of the things we're seeing happen have the fingerprints of things that are going on in Iraq," [Milton Bearden, a former CIA agent who was based in Pakistan during the Afghan rebellion against Soviet occupation,] told AFP....

The US magazine Newsweek in late September said its reporter had met two Taliban regional leaders, Mohammed Daud and Hamza Sangari, who told of spending several weeks in Iraq being trained by insurgents there.

"I'm explaining to my fighters every day the lessons I learned and my experience in Iraq," Daud told the weekly. "I want to copy in Afghanistan the tactics and spirit of the glorious Iraqi resistance"....

--AFP

"I want to copy in Afghanistan the tactics and spirit of the glorious Iraqi resistance." Tactics like this, perhaps?

A blast destroyed eight fuel tankers Friday outside the U.S.-led coalition's main base in southern Afghanistan. Two drivers were injured in the explosion, which sent thick black clouds billowing over Kandahar Airfield.

... Afghan army commander Gen. Mohammed Sarwar said the explosion was believed to have been caused by a bomb hidden in one of the tankers....

There has been a string of attacks on tankers contracted by the coalition to haul fuel to its bases from neighboring Pakistan....


(Via Democratic Underground.)