Taliban Targeted By Local Uprisings -- Wall Street Journal
ANDAR, Afghanistan—The paved road to this district is controlled by government troops. The alternate route, a dirt track, is under Taliban sway. Both ways are perilous for the local villagers who have taken up arms in the first of several anti-Taliban uprisings spreading in Afghanistan.
Two of these Andar rebels, escorting a reporter to their stronghold on a recent day, were stopped by jumpy Afghan soldiers, who cocked their American-furnished M-16s and briefly seized the villagers' weapons. The fighters were allowed to proceed only after long negotiations.
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My Comment: This is just a small uprising with limited resources, men, and weapons. But .... it should serve as a warning to the Taliban that after decades of war Afghanistan is now a different place .... and that subjugating it as they were able to do in the mid-1990s is probably no longer possible.