{"id":2840,"date":"2008-07-02T09:39:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T16:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2008-07-02T09:39:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T16:39:14","slug":"afghanistan-more-dangerous-than-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/07\/02\/afghanistan-more-dangerous-than-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan More Dangerous Than Iraq?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-070208\/2008_07_02_hoodbhoy.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-070208\/2008_07_02_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=60% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/rids\/20080701\/i\/r153848190.jpg?x=400&#038;y=219&#038;sig=HhLmZBHHM5uEU078Z62sEQ--\" alt=\"Pervez Hoodbhoy\" \/><em>GUEST: Pervez Hoodbhoy, peace activist, Professor of Physics at Qaid-e-Azam University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The war in Afghanistan has intensified, becoming a more dangerous place for troops to serve than even Iraq. More US and NATO soldiers were killed in Afghanistan than Iraq in the second month in a row &#8211; a clear indication that the Taliban and their allies are rapidly gaining strength. Last month the Taliban staged a jailbreak that resulted in freeing nearly a thousand prisoners &#8211; they briefly took over a strategic valley outside Kandahar. Attacks attributed to the Taliban are already up 40% this year from 2007, particularly along the border region with Pakistan. NATO and US troops killed dozens of people they label &#8220;militants&#8221; or &#8220;insurgents&#8221; in the border region. These type of actions have ignited a nationalist spirit among Pakistanis in support of the Taliban and against the US. Pakistan is widely thought to be a training ground for the Taliban who slip in unhindered between the two countries. NATO spokesman Mark Laity remarked last week, &#8220;We know that as long as the insurgents operate safely on the Pakistan side of the border, then there can not be security in Afghanistan.&#8221; Earlier in the month, Afghan president Hamid Karzai threatened to send troops into Pakistan to target Taliban bases there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Pervez Hoodbhoy, peace activist, Professor of Physics at Qaid-e-Azam University The war in Afghanistan has intensified, becoming a more dangerous place for troops to serve than even Iraq. More US and NATO soldiers were killed in Afghanistan than Iraq in the second month in a row &#8211; a clear indication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}