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Taliban to teach US Marines "a lesson" thenews.com | Tuesday, July 07, 2009 |

Posted on Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:41:07 AM by gandalftb

KANDAHAR: Afghanistan’s Taliban said Monday they launched a guerrilla operation to thwart a major assault by US Marines on their Helmand strongholds.

Operation Foladi Jal, Pashtu for “iron net”, would teach the Marines “a lesson”.

Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP.

“In response to Operation Khanjar by the invading forces, we have launched Operation Foladi Jal,” Ahmadi said. “Their Khanjar will get stuck in our Foladi Jal,”. “In this operation we’ll teach them a lesson so they will never again dare to come into our areas,” he said.The operation would include improvised bomb explosions and “hit-and-run guerrilla attacks”, Ahmadi said.

“We will not engage them in front battles. We would rather hit them by mines and guerrilla attacks,” he said. Ahmadi, the rebel spokesman, admitted that Taliban fighters had abandoned some areas.