Taliban adopting Iraq-style jihad | csmonitor.com

Taliban adopting Iraq-style jihad | csmonitor.com: "'That's part of our strategy - we are trying to bring [the Iraqi model] to Afghanistan,' says the fighter. 'Things will get worse here.'

Those 'things' include suicide attacks, assassinations of government officials, moderate clerics, and civilians, along with guerrilla tactics now in use against Western forces in the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, where NATO claims to have killed more than 500 insurgents in 10 days of intense fighting.

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, speaking in Brussels Tuesday, said the Taliban now pose a greater danger than Al Qaeda. 'The center of gravity of terrorism has shifted from al Qaeda to the Taliban,' he told European lawmakers.'

'This is a new element, a more dangerous element, because it [the Taliban] has its roots in the people. Al Qaeda didn't have roots in the people,' he said."