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'NATO exaggerates Afghan success'
:usflag: the flag that lies

Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:15PM GMT


US-led soldiers in Afghanistan (file photo)

A recent report finds that the US-led NATO forces may be exaggerating the success of its operations in Afghanistan to show its campaign there has been successful.


According to a report released by the Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) on Thursday, data on the raids, designed to kill or capture militant leaders between December 2009 and September 2011, is inconsistent, AFP reported.

“The lack of transparency is particularly apparent in the case of the insurgent leaders that were reportedly being killed and captured; there is no way to properly evaluate these claims," the AAN report pointed out.

The independent policy research organization also stated that the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) often interchanges the terms "facilitator" and "leader" without explaining why.

It also said statistics in press releases did not tally with more flamboyant figures released separately by ISAF to media outlets.

"It should make policymakers and analysts evaluating ISAF's progress think twice about accepting these body count figures without more serious scrutiny," the AAN report said.

Insecurity continues to rise across Afghanistan despite the presence of nearly 150,000 US-led forces in the Asian country.

A United Nations report said on September 28 that Afghanistan saw a near 40 percent rise in the monthly average number of security incidents recorded for the year through the end of August.

The report also said civilian casualties, already at record levels in the first six months of the year, rose 5 percent for the period from June to August compared with the same period in 2010.

Around 130,000 people were displaced by the conflict in the first seven months of the year, up nearly two-thirds from the same period one year earlier.

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We all know americans are liars
 
over half of the afghan army consists of thieves, illiterates and drug addicts; many taleban infiltrators or sympathisers (or ''swing sympathisers'' as i call them)


success, what success......ethnic divisions still exist (long before NATO barged in uninvited and exacerbated the situation).....drugs cultivation is on the rise again; even Kabul (a fortress) is unsafe and any attack can take place at any time even in green zones where there are more guns than people

100% of the GDP of Afghanistan comes from foreign aid; the only national product credited thus far, during this long decade+ of war are drugs....and for obvious reasons, heroin does not account for anything other than ''informal trade''

from a position of weakness and demoralization (early/mid 2000s) now the taleban resistance is ever more powerful and in fact, it seems they have adapted to many battleground tactics employed by NATO occupation forces


for public consumption only can they brag about ''successes'' --- using media. They'll give a documentary on one Afghan girl whom the NATO helped give an artificial leg; or they'll find a few afghan teachers and claim that they work for women's rights in Afghanistan.......what the state department and aid agencies do in Afghanistan is irrelevant....because these are small-time initiatives which make more effective photo-ops than anything substantive

we already know what happens once the NATOs pack up and begin to scram......no invading force has ever succeeded in Afghanistan; NATO/US will be no different. If you dont believe me, then okay just wait and see for yourself then.
 
^^^^ I think you are right americans are trying to blame others for their inability to achieve their aims
 
well the soviets blamed Pakistan for helping with the unrest which helped topple their project in Afghanistan; it's no different here. . . .except the stakes for us are a lot larger now, and we simply cannot allow others to dictate what we should do......we cannot ignore our national interests --especially those in the immediate region
 

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