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To: sea_biscuit who wrote (80338)	5/21/2007 6:32:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

The fact that you can actually report on individual casualties or small groups of soldiers being killed in a comprehensive way, shows how low American casualties are for a war. Not even just casualties but incidents where "were no casualties or damage". In most wars that wouldn't be news. But if you want some reporting. Iraqi Security Forces repel attacks in Mosul Sunday, 20 May 2007 mnf-iraq.com Desperate Taliban Changes Strategy May 21, 2007: Another Taliban ambush backfired, resulting in at least 25 dead Taliban. NATO and U.S. aerial surveillance, and a growing network of informants, puts the Taliban at an enormous information disadvantage. When the shooting starts, the Taliban have only vague idea of who is where, while their opponents are getting live overhead video of the action. That, plus smart bombs and better trained troops, usually results in a very lopsided outcome. As a result of this, the Taliban now says it is getting out of the countryside and moving the war to the urban areas. This would appear suicidal, because the Taliban has far more support in the countryside than they do in the towns and cities. But with Pakistan and Iran forcing the remaining four million Afghan refugees to return home, it is believed that many of these people will settle in the cities. These refugees were the original source of Taliban recruits, and continued to be very pro-Taliban. Moreover, the Taliban believe they will be safer in the cities, carrying out a terrorist campaign. The Taliban appear to be ignoring what's going on in Iraq. There, the terrorist bombers are hated by the population, and most of the Iraqi Sunni Arab population that supports the terrorists, have been driven out of the country. Trying to move the war to the cities is a desperate measure, and one that will only make the Taliban weaker. It's bad news for the many future victims of Taliban suicide bombers, but good news in that it is a sign that the Taliban is losing and desperate for something that will save them. strategypage.com instapundit.com