AFGHANISTAN

Daily Telegraph: Taliban fighters return to ambush coalition forces


Hundreds of Taliban fighters have crossed into Afghanistan from
Pakistan and are claiming large swathes of the country, the American commander
of coalition forces in Kabul said yesterday. As the Taliban intensified
their attacks on American and Afghan forces over the weekend, Gen F L
"Buster" Hagenbeck said the Taliban and its allies have regrouped in Pakistan,
recruiting fighters from religious schools in the city of Quetta in a
campaign funded by drug trafficking. Groups of fighters have crossed
the porous border and divided eastern Afghanistan into three zones for
launching attacks, he said.