The script seems to be the tragic protest in Mazar-e-Sharif on April 1 last year, when the UN compound was hit by a crowd of protesters and twelve people, including UN staff, guards and Afghan civilians, were killed. This morning several hundred people demonstrated outside the headquarters of the Provincial Reconstruction Team Taloqan, the capital of Takhar province in northern Afghanistan.
Protesting against NATO and Afghan Army raid, which occurred just outside a few hours before Taloqan, and claimed the lives of at least four people. According to NATO, were guerrillas, according to the protesters were civilians. "A group of gunmen infiltrated the crowd and tried to attack the offices of the PRT," reconstructs Ahmzai Lal Mohammed, press officer of the 303 ° brigade stationed in the Pamir.
At that time, the security forces guarding the PRT opened fire on demonstrators, killing at least 10 and wounding fifty. The versions on the raid that caused the protests are divergent. According to NATO, the four people killed in the village of Gowmali were "insurgents", while the second Towdi Faiz Mohammed, a spokesman for the governor of Takhar, two of the victims were women.
The British broadcaster BBC reported that the situation remains extremely tense Taloqan. The province of Takhar, which has about 850 000 inhabitants, is considered one of the hottest fronts in the country, however, as in other parts of northern Afghanistan, there was recently a resurgence of guerrilla activity.
In a report a few weeks ago, nice dall'Afghan Analysts Network, researchers and Antonio Giustozzi Christoph Reuter report that "until very recently it was widely believed that North Afghanistan was immune from the Taliban infiltration." This, according to two researchers, mainly for two reasons.
The first is that "the Taliban were perceived as merely a Pashtun movement by Western analysts and the Afghan government." The second reason is that until 2008 the level of infiltration of the Taliban remained very low, "the Taliban's attempts to gain support and build cells in so-called 'enclaves' Pashtuns in the north, have made progress since 2005, did not translate in military actions and were quickly considered failures by NATO / ISAF and Afghan forces.
" Things have changed from 2008 onwards, the researchers said, and the beginning of 2010, "the Taliban had gained political and military control" of different districts of the northern provinces, including "much of the northern Takhar." A key feature of the infiltration Taliban in northern Afghanistan, according to Reuter and Giustozzi, is the fact that in the recruitment of local guerrillas, but the approach is not ethnic and ideological aims to overcome ethnic divisions through the emphasis on common battle to oust the invaders.
The attack on the PRT Taloqan shows that even in northern Afghanistan, NATO is likely to miss their accounts. Joseph Zarlingo - Letter 22 
Protesting against NATO and Afghan Army raid, which occurred just outside a few hours before Taloqan, and claimed the lives of at least four people. According to NATO, were guerrillas, according to the protesters were civilians. "A group of gunmen infiltrated the crowd and tried to attack the offices of the PRT," reconstructs Ahmzai Lal Mohammed, press officer of the 303 ° brigade stationed in the Pamir.
At that time, the security forces guarding the PRT opened fire on demonstrators, killing at least 10 and wounding fifty. The versions on the raid that caused the protests are divergent. According to NATO, the four people killed in the village of Gowmali were "insurgents", while the second Towdi Faiz Mohammed, a spokesman for the governor of Takhar, two of the victims were women.
The British broadcaster BBC reported that the situation remains extremely tense Taloqan. The province of Takhar, which has about 850 000 inhabitants, is considered one of the hottest fronts in the country, however, as in other parts of northern Afghanistan, there was recently a resurgence of guerrilla activity.
In a report a few weeks ago, nice dall'Afghan Analysts Network, researchers and Antonio Giustozzi Christoph Reuter report that "until very recently it was widely believed that North Afghanistan was immune from the Taliban infiltration." This, according to two researchers, mainly for two reasons.
The first is that "the Taliban were perceived as merely a Pashtun movement by Western analysts and the Afghan government." The second reason is that until 2008 the level of infiltration of the Taliban remained very low, "the Taliban's attempts to gain support and build cells in so-called 'enclaves' Pashtuns in the north, have made progress since 2005, did not translate in military actions and were quickly considered failures by NATO / ISAF and Afghan forces.
" Things have changed from 2008 onwards, the researchers said, and the beginning of 2010, "the Taliban had gained political and military control" of different districts of the northern provinces, including "much of the northern Takhar." A key feature of the infiltration Taliban in northern Afghanistan, according to Reuter and Giustozzi, is the fact that in the recruitment of local guerrillas, but the approach is not ethnic and ideological aims to overcome ethnic divisions through the emphasis on common battle to oust the invaders.
The attack on the PRT Taloqan shows that even in northern Afghanistan, NATO is likely to miss their accounts. Joseph Zarlingo - Letter 22
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