(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The failure of the Doha negotiations between the US delegation led by Zaimay Khalizaid and the Taliban one led by mullah Ab-dul Ghani Baradar has made Afghanistan a highly flammable powder keg. In the month of July alone, about 1500 people died and were injured. The attacks and the fighting also between Herat and Farah, an area of competence of the 895 Italian soldiers, included in the NATO mission which today has 17.148 soldiers, of which 8.475 Americans.
Opposed to every peace process about 70 thousand teleban fighters, who as reported by the Press have an inestimable availability of weapons, even modern ones equipped with laser pointers and night vision devices. The telebana team is also reinforced by around 1.400 black flags - Wilayat Khorasan-Isisk - very active in the areas of illicit trafficking.
As the elections approach, the Telebans have intensified their action with bombs, with the intention of intimidating Kabul, of besieging it. The Afghan security forces, in response, are trying to obstruct the access routes to the capital. From NHO 101, highway 1 connecting Kabul to Ghazni, to continue towards Kandahar and Helmand.
The most dangerous is the "black zone" where three great tribes reign, two Pashtuns and one Hazara of Shiite confession, for a total of seven districts of which only the government compounds are controlled by the institutions. For the rest there is a shadow governorate of the Taliban whose leader is Wali Jan Hamza and whose coercive force reaches as far as Ghazni, where it has imposed the closure of 173 out of 406 seats.
Suicide attacks conducted in the capital by jihadists led by commander Qassam are planned from this area. Near Maidan in the black zone, the insurgents mingle with the civilian population to whom they offer protection and sometimes well-paid recruitment, even as kamikaze. The bombs, the Press details, are placed on the side of the road by children often used as criminal laborers by the Taliban as well as women are used as cover shields for daring escapes, especially after raids on motorcycles.
After the Doha negotiations failed, Afghanistan faces elections in an unprecedented climate of tension. Climate that will tend to undermine any democratic process to bring the country to lasting peace. Too bad that in this hot area of the planet there is more and more talk of the withdrawal of the allied forces. Italy has already downsized its contingent over the last few years. Leaving Afghanistan in the hands of the telebans, flanked by ISIS groups is certainly a strategic mistake that will reverberate on all of us because the ferocity and thirst to terrorize the infidels of the Western world by Isis and Al Qaeda and everything else. that dormant.