As noted the other day, the Germans have serious reservations about killing the Taliban in Afghanistan. So much so, that its elite commandos have been restricted from attacking known Taliban murderers. They are only allowed to detain these “fugitives.” The Taliban, on the other hand, have no such qualms about killing Germans. Spiegel followed up its sickening story about German rules of engagement in Afghanistan by interviewing a Taliban commander named Qabir Bashir Haqqani. Here is what Haqqani has to say:
SPIEGEL ONLINE: The three Germans killed weren’t even combat troops, they were army employees in charge of purchasing refrigerators for the troops’ kitchen. Haqqani: It is not important what kind of soldiers they were. What’s important is to kill and hammer out the Germans in Kunduz. The Germans are the most important enemy in the north and because they are stationed in Kunduz, the city will soon become the Kandahar of the north.
The Germans are treating the war as a police action. The Taliban are treating the war as a war. Security in the North will only suffer because of the German’s failure to properly use their military forces to hunt and kill Taliban.
