The City of Kandahar is the capital of the Pashtun area of Afghanistan. It’s also considered the spiritual home of the Taliban. The Obama regime claimed that killing Bin Laden would demoralize the Taliban. Well it has done the opposite, they have launched an offensive in Kandahar!
KABUL, Afghanistan—Fighting erupted for a second day Sunday between Taliban gunmen and Afghan security forces in the southern city of Kandahar, demonstrating the insurgents’ determination to maintain a foothold in the city they consider their spiritual home.
Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said Sunday that the death toll in clashes that broke out a day earlier had risen to 25 — all but two of them Taliban fighters. The Taliban brushed aside the lopsided toll, instead boasting that the fighting had all but paralyzed the country’s second-largest city.
The confrontation began Saturday with an audacious attempt by dozens of insurgents to overrun half a dozen key installations across the city, including the governor’s compound and the intelligence directorate. The fighting died down overnight, but started up again Sunday when security forces moved in to try to clear a hotel that the attackers had used as a staging ground.
There is no light at the end of the tunnel here.
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