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Ah, the report prepared by a commission lead by Amrullah Saleh jan is out -- again a note for those who think he's history -- politicians have nine lives.
Interesting comments about the brave ANSF -- not sure if one should believe them or not.
Article here, excerpts below:
KABUL: Afghan investigators on Saturday not only blamed weak leadership, misuse of resources and lack of coordination between Afghan security services for the Taliban’s capture of the city of Kunduz in September but also accused Pakistani authorities of supporting the Taliban as they assaulted the northern city.
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The report says that Afghanistan’s intelligence service had recorded telephone conversations between Taliban leaders in Kunduz and unnamed ‘individuals in the Taliban base of Peshawar’, across the border in Pakistan. Taliban gunmen overran Kunduz, capital of the province of the same name, on September 28. They held the city for three days before a government counter-offensive was launched. It took two weeks for troops to bring the city back under government control.
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Investigation by Amrullah Saleh, head of the investigating team and a former intelligence agency chief, into Kunduz is the first to release results to the public in the form of a 30-page summary. The investigators were appointed by President Ashraf Ghani, and submitted their full 200-page report a month ago.
The report says that army, police and intelligence agency soldiers left their posts as the Taliban advanced on the city. The large-scale desertion enabled the insurgents to enter the city almost unopposed.
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Without US air support, government forces would have been unable to take back the city of Kunduz. Kunduz is a strategic city on the northern Afghan plain. It sits on a national crossroads that connects to every border, including Tajikistan to the north. It is a major wheat-producing region, as well as a nexus for smuggling routes for drugs, weapons and alcohol, officials have said. Taliban-led insurgents had been massing around Kunduz for the past year, and had tried on at least three earlier occasions to take the city of 300,000. Officials have said the Taliban absorbed other insurgents groups for the Kunduz assault, notably members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
At a press conference, Saleh pointed to the ‘influence of a number of individuals’ working against government interests in the city, including wealthy businessmen, local warlords and senior officials ‘in whose interests it was to ensure the government remained weak’. He referred to these groups as ‘grey networks’. “The collapse of Kunduz city was not due simply to a Taliban assault, it had been in the planning stages for over a year,” he said.
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Saleh’s team found no evidence that government forces in Kunduz lacked ammunition or food, but he criticized what he called their ‘complicated structures’.
Interesting comments about the brave ANSF -- not sure if one should believe them or not.
Article here, excerpts below:
KABUL: Afghan investigators on Saturday not only blamed weak leadership, misuse of resources and lack of coordination between Afghan security services for the Taliban’s capture of the city of Kunduz in September but also accused Pakistani authorities of supporting the Taliban as they assaulted the northern city.
...
The report says that Afghanistan’s intelligence service had recorded telephone conversations between Taliban leaders in Kunduz and unnamed ‘individuals in the Taliban base of Peshawar’, across the border in Pakistan. Taliban gunmen overran Kunduz, capital of the province of the same name, on September 28. They held the city for three days before a government counter-offensive was launched. It took two weeks for troops to bring the city back under government control.
...
Investigation by Amrullah Saleh, head of the investigating team and a former intelligence agency chief, into Kunduz is the first to release results to the public in the form of a 30-page summary. The investigators were appointed by President Ashraf Ghani, and submitted their full 200-page report a month ago.
The report says that army, police and intelligence agency soldiers left their posts as the Taliban advanced on the city. The large-scale desertion enabled the insurgents to enter the city almost unopposed.
...
Without US air support, government forces would have been unable to take back the city of Kunduz. Kunduz is a strategic city on the northern Afghan plain. It sits on a national crossroads that connects to every border, including Tajikistan to the north. It is a major wheat-producing region, as well as a nexus for smuggling routes for drugs, weapons and alcohol, officials have said. Taliban-led insurgents had been massing around Kunduz for the past year, and had tried on at least three earlier occasions to take the city of 300,000. Officials have said the Taliban absorbed other insurgents groups for the Kunduz assault, notably members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan.
At a press conference, Saleh pointed to the ‘influence of a number of individuals’ working against government interests in the city, including wealthy businessmen, local warlords and senior officials ‘in whose interests it was to ensure the government remained weak’. He referred to these groups as ‘grey networks’. “The collapse of Kunduz city was not due simply to a Taliban assault, it had been in the planning stages for over a year,” he said.
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Saleh’s team found no evidence that government forces in Kunduz lacked ammunition or food, but he criticized what he called their ‘complicated structures’.
