'We Want To Talk To The Taliban. But They Would Rather Kill Themselves' -- The Independent
Control of Kandahar is key to withdrawal from Afghanistan. But the coming US offensive there will be a bloody one, writes Kim Sengupta.
The first sign of the attack was somewhat mystifying: a tractor suddenly going up in flames on farmland beyond the base.
But there no ambiguity about what followed. A group of men charged, the first blowing himself up as he reached the fence, the others behind opening up with rifle fire. At the same moment, the first of a salvo of rockets launched from a distance landed inside Kandahar airfield.
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