War in Northern Afghanistan: Taliban hoist flag on former Bundeswehr Camp One year after the withdrawal of the Bundeswehr, the war returns to Kunduz. Taliban overrun whole districts, occupy police station. The Afghan army is against the onslaught of barely. Kabul / Berlin - Sayed Sarwar Hussaini has no time. In Kunduz is war, the Taliban have us in the pliers, he yells into his mobile phone. The connection to the spokesman for the police in the northern Afghan city is moderate, in the background howling sirens. Hussaini says he has to immediately release his men were on their way to an operation in a suburb. A police station to have been overrun by Taliban. Hours later, it has become evening, Hussaini reported in some detail on the situation in Kunduz, where the Bundeswehr until October 2013 had its second-largest military camp in northern Afghanistan, some more than 2,000 German soldiers stationed there. Since two weeks, says the policeman, his city will already by the Taliban besieged. About 2000Kämpfer, including many Chechens and Arabs, Kunduz had surrounded. The descriptions of the policemen are consistent with the statements of residents of Kunduz and village elders, which SPIEGEL ONLINE reached by telephone in recent days. They unanimously reported heavy fighting between the Taliban and quite overwhelmed Afghan security forces. Where the Islamists are victorious, as revealed in some suburbs of Kunduz, they lead immediately to her draconian regiment. The offensive by the Taliban seems well organized. Two of its most prominent leader, Mullah Salam and the infamous commander Shamsuddin, should be returned from Pakistan to Kunduz, according to the police. They were formerly at the top of the wanted list of the Bundeswehr. Soon Kunduz is under our control Until now, the Afghans were able to slow down the advance at least. Just outside the city, especially in the Pashtun stronghold Chahar Dara, the army and armed inhabitants gave fierce fighting with the Taliban. Nevertheless, the Islamists now boast on Twitter and on the phone with their territorial gains. Soon Kunduz is under our control are, said a commander SPIEGEL ONLINE. The reports correspond to the horror scenario that recorded skeptics before the withdrawal of the Bundeswehr in Kunduz. Doubt that the Afghans can not ensure the security alone seem to be borne out in Kunduz. Symbolic acts primarily a photo from August 13. Early morning hoisted as in the suburb of Chahar Dara Taliban fighters their white flag at the police station. Right there still soldiers of the Bundeswehr had stayed until fall 2013. Officials in Kunduz struggled in recent days to qualify the symbolism of the photo. A commander of the Afghan National Army (ANA) reported that the guard had been briefly overrun by a handful of Taliban. After several hours, the ANA have regained the upper hand, it was quite similar at around ten other police stations in the area in recent weeks have been. The Taliban flag on a former German items - such images should never exist actually. When the German army withdrew from Kunduz, she promised to not let the Afghans down, in an emergency youll help immediately. But even then it was clear that never again a German soldier would come to Kunduz. Berlin wants the new successes of the Taliban do not seem to admit: In the classified thing weekly briefing for the Bundestag, it only means that in 1100 Afghan soldiers were used for a routine mission in Chahar Dara Subdivision. Of skirmishes with the Taliban is no question. Rather, the situation is there sufficient total controllable but heterogeneous. https://translate.google.de/translate?hl=de&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fspiegel.de%2Fpolitik%2Fausland%2Ftaliban-auf-dem-vormarsch-auf-ehemaliges-bundeswehrcamp-a-988440.html&sandbox=1
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 04:29:46 +0000
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