US sees potential for wider anti-Taliban uprising
Thursday, October 18, 2012
This photo taken Oct. 10, 2012 shows U.S. Brig. Gen. John Charlton, left, talking to U.S. Lt. Col. Kevin Lambert at the U.S base in An Band district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Charlton is a deputy commander of Regional Command-East as well as the senior American advisor to the commander of the Afgan National Army’s 203rd Corps, Lambert is commander of 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)
This photo taken Oct. 10, 2012 shows U.S. Brig. Gen. John Charlton, right, talking with Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) brigade commander Gul Mohammed Rasikh at the U.S base in An Band district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Fed up with the Taliban closing their schools and committing other acts of oppression, men in a village about 100 miles south of Kabul took up arms late last spring and chased out the insurgents with no help from the Afghan government or U.S. military. Small-scale revolts like the one in the village of Kunsaf, Ghazni, in recent months indicate bits of a do-it-yourself anti-insurgency that the U.S. hopes Afghan authorities can transform into a wider movement that could undercut the Taliban in areas it still dominates after 11 years of war. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)
This photo taken Oct. 10, 2012 shows a U.S. soldier instructing Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) in emergency medical treatment at Forward Operating Base Warrior, in Gelan district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)
This photo taken Oct. 10, 2012 shows Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) lining up to get counter-IED training at Forward Operating Base Warrior in Gelan district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)
AB BAND, Afghanistan (AP) — The men in a village about 100 miles south of Kabul were fed up with the Taliban closing their schools and committing other acts of oppression. So they took up arms last spring and chased the insurgents out with no help from the Afghan government or U.S. military.
Small-scale revolts like the one in the village of Kunsaf are bits of a do-it-yourself anti-insurgency that the U.S. hopes Afghan authorities can transform into a wider movement. They hope it can undercut the Taliban in areas it still dominates after 11 years of war.
The effort in Ghazni province looks like a long shot. But American officials nonetheless are quietly nurturing the trend, hoping it might become a game changer or at least a new roadblock for the Taliban.
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