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Hundreds of Taliban fighters have taken over several villages in the same southern Afghanistan province where about 400 Taliban militants recently escaped from prison, local officials and police said.

About 400 to 500 Taliban militants were seen streaming into the Arghandab district of the Kandahar province late Sunday night on motor bikes and pickup trucks, said Haji Aka Jan, a tribal elder in the district.

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The incidence of attacks in Afghanistan set record numbers in 2007 and remains on pace to match those figures this year, according to statistics from the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, obtained by CNN.

As of June 6, the coalition had tallied 2,999 attacks. That compares to 7,143 during all of 2007 and up significantly from the 5,174 attacks during 2006.

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ORIGINAL: WormHeart

Meanwhile - in Afghanistan:

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Hundreds of Taliban fighters have taken over several villages in the same southern Afghanistan province where about 400 Taliban militants recently escaped from prison, local officials and police said.

About 400 to 500 Taliban militants were seen streaming into the Arghandab district of the Kandahar province late Sunday night on motor bikes and pickup trucks, said Haji Aka Jan, a tribal elder in the district.

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The incidence of attacks in Afghanistan set record numbers in 2007 and remains on pace to match those figures this year, according to statistics from the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, obtained by CNN.

As of June 6, the coalition had tallied 2,999 attacks. That compares to 7,143 during all of 2007 and up significantly from the 5,174 attacks during 2006.

CNN

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WormHeart

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ORIGINAL: cow451

Hey, we'd like to help and all. but we're kinda busy over in Iraq.

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Hey, we'd like to help and all. but we're kinda busy over in Iraq.

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ORIGINAL: WormHeart

Meanwhile - in Afghanistan:

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Hundreds of Taliban fighters have taken over several villages in the same southern Afghanistan province where about 400 Taliban militants recently escaped from prison, local officials and police said.

About 400 to 500 Taliban militants were seen streaming into the Arghandab district of the Kandahar province late Sunday night on motor bikes and pickup trucks, said Haji Aka Jan, a tribal elder in the district.

CNN

WormHeart

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Oh but our resources to go after those states that harbor terrorists are unlimited....our troops have can probably serve another 4 or 5 combat tours (after all, that's what they signed up for)....so what is the problem?

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ORIGINAL: CherishedbyGod

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ORIGINAL: cow451

Hey, we'd like to help and all. but we're kinda busy over in Iraq.

Well, obviously you are not busy in Iraq...

So why don't you go over and be that example?

It is far easier to critisize...Isn't it?.....

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Well, I appreciate your confidence in my super powers, but you mistake me for Hancock, LOL. Can you tell us why the US has too few troops available to fight the Taliban? Why the US withdrew key forces from Afghanistan in 2002?