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I wonder if they'd be able to save the province.
80 militants is a good show, though.
12 out of the 17 districts in that Province support the Taliban at the grassroot levels.
The deal they did with the tribal elders has been violated by both the sides by now with such sporadic fighting. But it did show nato's first acceptance of "local" pashtun police.
The interesting thing is they chose to deal with Musa Qala, a village almost 100% Pashtun and thus with one of the highest support for the Taliban.
Inevitably, sooner or later Nato would get off its high horse of idealism and we'd see more and more of such deals.
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