Huge questions now have to be asked of the Afghan government, the US, and the allied forces operating in Afghanistan this morning following the attack of a prison in Kandahar and the release of over one thousand inmates including hundreds of Taliban militants. Clearly such an audacious attack signals a major change in tactics by Anti-Afghan forces, who are ratcheting up insurgency operations to counter the fact they cannot match the opposing forces in conventional, head-on fighting. It also highlights in the clearest terms the continued ability and determination of militants in the face of the premature handover of responsibility to the ill-prepared Afghan authorities in assuming security for their own infrastructure.
This story - Taliban Jail Raid Frees Hundreds - features on Aprodex as does, by contrast, a claim by US government officials and counterterrorism specialists that the deadliest terrorist networks in Southeast Asia have suffered significant setbacks in the past three years: Experts See Gains Against Asian Terror Networks.
Also featured are two stories relating to stability in Africa - Strategies for conflict resolution in Somalia and Cameroon: Experts Warn About Armed Conflict in Country.
On a different subject, a warning has been received from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, suggesting in their new report entitled 'Business continuity planning and pandemic influenza in Europe', that Businesses in Europe are not sufficiently prepared for a potential flu pandemic.
Aprodex in Focus takes a look at The Rebellion Within: An Al Qaeda mastermind questions terrorism, a piece by Lawrence Wright, writing in The New Yorker, about possible fractions within the terrorist organisation suggesting that senior figures in Al Qaeda are renouncing terrorism, and asks was this happening to Al Jihad and could it happen even to Al Qaeda?"
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