{"id":281,"date":"2010-05-09T14:29:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T14:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=281"},"modified":"2010-05-09T14:29:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T14:29:22","slug":"afghan-taliban-announce-new-campaign-of-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/05\/09\/281\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Taliban announce new campaign of attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"taleban3\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/taleban3.jpg\" width=\"223\" height=\"190\" \/>KABUL: The Taliban on Saturday announced a new nationwide campaign of attacks in Afghanistan, as President Hamid Karzai prepared for talks with US leaders on his embattled country\u2019s future. The announcement, emailed to AFP, said the operation would begin on May 10 and would target diplomats, members of the Afghan parliament and foreign contractors as well as foreign forces in Afghanistan.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Islamic Emirate announces this spring operation by the name of Al-Faath (victory), to be launched against Americans, Nato members and their surrogates,\u201d said the statement, using the official name of the Taliban.<br \/> \u201cThe Al-Faath Jihadic operations will start in 10th May 2010 this year to include operations against the defeated foreigners and their surrogates all over the country.\u201d Tactics would include bombings, assassinations and kidnappings, the statement said.<br \/>It came as Karzai warned that swathes of the country lacked security almost nine years after a US-led invasion ousted the Taliban regime. \u201cWe have travelled far together, but the international effort in Afghanistan still has miles to go,\u201d Karzai wrote in The Washington Post. \u201cWe are not yet delivering security to large portions of the country.\u201d<br \/>The Afghan leader travels to Washington on Sunday for talks with US leaders ahead of a major military offensive in the southern province of Kandahar, the heartland of the Taliban.<br \/>Nato and the United States are deploying thousands of extra soldiers in a strategy designed to bring a swift end to the conflict, with foreign troop numbers expected to peak at 150,000 in August.<br \/>Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak played down the Taliban threat, calling it a \u201cpropaganda campaign\u201d.<br \/> \u201cI doubt very seriously that they have the capability to do anything like what they have claimed they will do,\u201d he told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>Source: agencies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The Taliban on Saturday announced a new nationwide campaign of attacks in Afghanistan, as President Hamid Karzai prepared for talks with US leaders on his embattled country\u2019s future. 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