A U.S. Air Force KC-10 Extender aircraft from the 908th Expeditionary Aerial Refueling Squadron refuels a U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle over Afghanistan on Nov. 7, 2008. DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon, U.S. Air Force. (Released)Taliban Leader Runs Free, Targets Afghanistan
-- Sacremento Bee/McClatchy Papers
-- Sacremento Bee/McClatchy Papers
WASHINGTON – For seven years, the Bush administration has pursued al-Qaida but done almost nothing to hunt down the Afghan Taliban leadership in its sanctuaries in Pakistan, and that's left Mullah Mohammad Omar and his deputies free to direct an escalating war against the U.S.-backed Afghan government.
The administration's decision, U.S. and NATO officials said, has allowed the Taliban to regroup, rearm and recruit at bases in southwestern Pakistan. Since the Islamic movement's resurgence began in early 2005, it's killed at least 626 U.S.-led NATO troops, 301 of them Americans, along with thousands of Afghans, and handed President-elect Barack Obama a growing guerrilla war with no end in sight.
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