Afghan insurgents "on brink of defeat"

by Infidelesto on June 2, 2008 · View Comments

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Afghan insurgents ‘on brink of defeat’

Missions by special forces and air strikes by unmanned drones have “decapitated” the Taliban and brought the war in Afghanistan to a “tipping point”, the commander of British forces has said.

And this:

Reuters

Taliban flee U.S. Marines onslaught in Afghanistan

Taliban insurgents are fleeing south towards the Afghan border with Pakistan in the face of a U.S. Marines offensive in volatile Helmand province, the NATO commander in Afghanistan said on Monday.

U.S. Marines have been pushing south from the former Taliban stronghold of Garmsir in Helmand for a month in an operation meant to cut off insurgent infiltration routes from Pakistan.

“They have shown under some amount of pressure they flee to their sanctuaries,” General Dan McNeill told a news conference.

“In the last two days we have had many reports … that the insurgents after experiencing these several weeks of pressure below Garmsir are trying to flee to the south perhaps to go back to sanctuaries in another country,” he said.

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