The Face of a Deadlier Taliban Threat: Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani......

Iraq is over, we won (even though the MSM will never admit it). Time to focus on Afghanistan.....

The attack was little reported at the time. A suicide bombing on March 3 killed two NATO soldiers and two Afghan civilians and wounded 19 others in a U.S. military base.

It was only weeks later, when Taliban militants put out a propaganda DVD, that the implications of the attack became clear. The DVD shows a huge explosion, with shock waves rippling out far beyond the base. As a thick cloud of dust rises, the face of Maulavi Jalaluddin Haqqani, a Taliban commander who presents one of the biggest threats to NATO and U.S. forces, appears. He taunts his opponents and derides rumors of his demise.

"Now as you see I am still alive," he says.

The deadly attack was also devastating for what it showed about the persistence of the Afghan insurgency and the way former mujahedeen leaders, like Maulavi Haqqani, combined tactics and forces with Al Qaeda and other foreign terrorist groups.

As a renewed sense of crisis grips the war here, fueled by reports Monday that the Taliban had overrun districts in southern Afghanistan after a huge jailbreak last week, these new networks have given the insurgents a broader pool of recruits and added power and sophistication to their attacks, U.S. military officials say.

The bomber in the March attack, for instance, turned out to be a Turkish citizen who was born in Germany and was trained in Pakistan, according to European officials in Kabul

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[pulsar182]

"Now as you see I am still alive," he says.

for the time being.