1.0 link 109617 <![CDATA[The Year of the Taliban]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jamal-dajani/the-year-of-the-taliban_b_109617.html Just recently, Taliban fighters drove a car filled with explosives up to Sarposa prison, the largest detention facility in Kandahar. They were able to free hundreds of their prisoners who can now return to fighting Afghan and NATO troops.

In April, during the Mujahedin Day military parade, a celebration of the expulsion of Soviet forces in 1989, Taliban fighters penetrated a heavy security area and attacked with machine guns and heavy weapons. The bullets hit Afghan parliamentarians within 30 yards...

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