While attention is diverted to the war in Iraq, hostilities in Afghanistan are heating up. In the past three weeks, two special forces men were killed in an ambush, three Afghan soldiers had their throats slit at a lonely checkpoint, and
an international aid worker was gunned down in Uruzgan province.
A former top Taliban chief, Mullah Dadullah, told the BBC in a phone interview that the warrior clerics were coming out of hiding to renew their war against Afghan leader Hamid Karzai and the U.S.-led coalition backing him up. Dadullah claimed the clerics...