BTW on the other hand US should try to stop those pouring in from Central Asia into Afghanistan to fight against yankees.
'Foreigners are reinforcing the Taliban,' says Afghan minister
KABUL: Thousands of foreign fighters have poured into Afghanistan to bolster the Taliban insurgency, the country’s defence minister said on Saturday as he called for more international troops.
The remarks come as the US debates whether to substantially increase its forces in Afghanistan or to conduct a more limited campaign focused on targeting Al-Qaida figures.
The minister’s comments hit on a key worry of the United States that not sending enough troops to Afghanistan will open the door back up to Al-Qaida. They also suggest that the Afghan government is nervous about the US commitment amid talk of changing the strategy and a surge in violence in recent months.
An American and two Polish troops were killed by bombs in the latest violence reported by NATO forces.
‘The enemy has changed. Their number has increased,’ Defence Minister Gen Abdul Rahim Wardak told lawmakers in a speech. He said about 4,000 fighters, mostly from Chechnya and North Africa ‘have joined with them and they are involved in the fighting in Afghanistan’.
He gave no timeframe for the supposed increase in foreign fighters.
Wardak said Afghan intelligence services had asked for more international forces to cope with the foreign threat, and the minister’s spokesman said Wardak backed the call.
US military officials said they could not immediately comment on the claim of a recent influx of foreign fighters.
Afghanistan’s interior minister, who also spoke to parliament, endorsed a strategy promoted by the top US commander Gen Stanley McChrystal to focus on protecting civilians rather than simply killing insurgents.
‘If the target of this fight is only killing the Taliban, we will not win this war. If it is saving the Afghan people, then we have a possibility,’ Interior Minister Hanif Atmar said. — AP