{"id":211,"date":"2010-04-19T15:25:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=211"},"modified":"2010-04-19T15:25:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T15:25:01","slug":"taliban-takes-over-afghan-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/04\/19\/211\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban takes over Afghan valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"taliban-valley\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/taliban-valley.jpg\" width=\"217\" height=\"184\" \/>The Taliban is claiming victory in eastern Afghanistan&#8217;s Korengal Valley following the withdrawal of US forces from the remote outpost.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">US officials, however, say the withdrawal in Kunar province was &#8220;a repositioning of forces&#8221; following a decision by General Stanley McChrystal, head of US and Nato forces in Afghanistan, to concentrate resources on urban areas.<br \/>Korengal Valley, dubbed the Valley of Death by US forces, was frequently the scene of heavy fighting. At least 42 US troops were killed there over the past five years.<br \/>Days after the US withdrawal, Al Jazeera visited the valley and found the Taliban had control of the area and access to every part of the camp.<br \/>Local Afghans were also coming to visit the area, now strewn with litter and debris.<br \/>One local man said he believed stability would return to the area, now that foreign forces are gone.<br \/>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want Americans, we don&#8217;t want Germans or any other foreigner. We don&#8217;t want foreigners, we want peace. We want Taliban and Islam &#8211; we don&#8217;t want anything else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Taliban plans<\/p>\n<p>Taliban fighters told Al Jazeera they intended to make use of the US camp and launch attacks to capture more territory in the region.<br \/>They also claimed that they had captured tonnes of fuel and ammunition left behind by US forces.<br \/>&#8220;There is a lot of ammunition left behind \u2013 mortars, rockets, and missiles. This, God willing, we will [use] against them,&#8221; Anwar, a local Taliban commander, told Al Jazeera&#8217;s Qais Azimy.<br \/>Al Jazeera contacted the presidential palace in Kabul, as well as the headquarters of Nato&#8217;s International Security Assistance Force\u00a0 (Isaf) and the Pentagon, but none of them would comment on the Taliban takeover.<br \/>Mark Perry, an author based in Washington, DC and specialising in US military analysis, said the withdrawal of American forces from Korengal was not necessarily either a victory or defeat, but was in keeping with past strategy.<br \/>&#8220;This is a pretty small battle,&#8221; he said.<br \/>&#8220;It&#8217;s true that we left, but we weren&#8217;t going to stay there anyway.&#8221;<br \/>He said the US military is pursuing a strategy to try to cripple the Taliban and al-Qaeda where possible, and create &#8220;a breathing space for the government in Afghanistan to become politically rooted in the society&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> Source: Al Jazeera<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban is claiming victory in eastern Afghanistan&#8217;s Korengal Valley following the withdrawal of US forces from the remote outpost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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