{"article":{"id":12080,"heading":"U.S.BOMBS STRENGTHEN TALIBAN!","author":"Jerry Schmidt","created":"2001-10-20 00:30:16","modified":"2015-12-18 10:15:28","last_modified":"Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:15:28","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>U.S. BOMBS STRENGTHEN TALIBAN! <br><br> After 10 days of bombing the LA TIMES  headline of 10-18-01 calls out &ldquo;TALIBAN  HALTS OPPOSITION ADVANCE ON KEY NOTHERN AFGHANISTAN CITY (Mazar-I-Shirf)&rdquo;   <br><br> On the same date THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  states &ldquo; For much of this year the CIA financed Afghan commanders to attack the Taliban, according to a State Department official  who watches the region and is familiar with the payments. However , these commanders &lsquo;haven&rsquo;t been doing  anything, haven&rsquo;t produced anything yet,&rsquo; the official said. <br><br> The JOURNAL further states that Abdul Haq, who was a top Pashtun commander in the 1980&rsquo;s Afghan resistance to Soviet occupation says that now if we even mention replacing the Taliban &ldquo;They(the  locals) call us American puppets.  Afghan scholars and leaders  say that while the country is notoriously fractured, it traitionally has unified when faced with a perceived foreign aggressor. Afghans interviewed in Peshawar site such solidarity as an explanation for what they see as a sharp rise in the support for the Taliban.  <br><br> You kill 200  civilians and say<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"jschmidt66@earthlnk.net","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"In spite of the U.S. bombing in the Korean and Viet wars that united their people against the invader the Globelized\r\ncorporations still are driven by intense competition to fight for the competitive advantage of controling foreign markets,cheap labor and natural resources.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2001\/10\/12080.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}