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Afghan Taliban slam Obama strategy as 'fake hopes'

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, Dec 18, IRNA -- Afghan Taliban Friday dismissed President Obama’s review of Afghan strategy as ‘a fake hope to American and other nations of world’ and to divert the international community's attention from the U.S. failure.

President Obama in review of his Afghan war strategy yesterday expressed the hope that the Taliban and Al-Qaeda would finally be defeated and that progress has been made in Afghanistan.

'In our opinion, as Obama's strategy has failed in the past, his review of the strategy will also face failure and will not give any positive message to the Americans,' a Taliban statement said.

The statement said Taliban will foil the strategy and will continue its fight against foreign forces.

“Obama has reviewed his strategy at a time when they have made every possible effort to maintain their (American) occupation in Afghanistan, but all of them have failed,” the statement, emailed to the media in Pashto language, said.

The statement said it has been proved over the last nine years that the insistence on increasing foreign military forces and on using military force for the success of foreign military forces in Afghanistan has a failed and has been futile. “This cannot play any role in changing the situation and this is what Obama too has indirectly admitted in his review of the failed strategy”.

“In his review, Obama said his forces had made relative progress in unknown areas of Afghanistan. However, now everyone knows that the reality is different from how he has portrayed it and that more Americans have been killed since the announcement of his strategy than at any other time,” the statement, released by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said.

It said that the Obama's strategy for Afghanistan has not only failed in the military field, but has not secured any success in the civilian and administrative areas either.

“We are confident that Obama's review will also fail just as his strategy has failed in the past. It will not bring any positive message for the Americans because it seems that there has been no major change in the review of the strategy,” the Taliban said.

The statement said that the Taliban believe that prosperity and peace cannot be ensured in Afghanistan until all foreign forces leave Afghanistan and the continuation of foreign interference will cause even more casualties and destruction.

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