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Taliban vows stronger resistance in response to U.S. troops surge

"The extra 30,000 troops that will come to Afghanistan will provoke stronger resistance and fighting"
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The radical Islamic Taliban group has threatened to step up resistance in response to a U.S. decision to send additional troops to the war-torn Central Asian country.

The radical Islamic Taliban group has threatened to step up resistance in response to a U.S. decision to send additional troops to the war-torn Central Asian country.

U.S. President Barack Obama said in his televised address to the nation on Tuesday that the U.S. would send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan in the first part of 2010 to successfully conclude the war against the Taliban and establish peace in the country.

"Their hope to control Afghanistan by military means will not become reality," Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahamdi announced by phone on Wednesday from an unidentified location.

"The extra 30,000 troops that will come to Afghanistan will provoke stronger resistance and fighting," he said.

There are a total of 112,000 foreign soldiers in Afghanistan. The U.S. has some 68,000 soldiers in the country, and their number will increase to 98,000 when the new troops are deployed.

The U.S.-led campaign toppled the Taliban movement from power in Afghanistan in 2001. But the radical Islamic group has stepped up attacks of late, with suicide bombings and other violence an almost daily occurrence.

 

KABUL, December 3 (RIA Novosti)

 

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