After their massive Saturday assault in Afghanistan’s second-largest city shocked the U.S., Taliban leaders tell The Daily Beast’s Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau that the new offensive is part of a calculated attempt to launch a new brand of “psychological warfare.”
An Afghan border policeman fired on Taliban fighters at a nearby building in Kandahar on Sunday, May 8, 2011. (Allauddin Khan / AP Photo)
The Taliban’s surprise assault in downtown Kandahar this past weekend was one of the biggest and best coordinated urban assaults by the Afghan insurgents since the war began.
