"...U.S. Marine Gen. John R. Allen, the coalition's commander, on Thursday called the Helmand attack "horrendous" and accused the Taliban insurgency of declaring "outright war on the people of Afghanistan." He said such attacks wouldn't derail U.S.-led efforts to transfer control of security nationwide to Afghan forces by 2014 and would only isolate the Taliban from peace talks that the U.S. hopes to broker between the insurgency and the Afghan government (in Qatar).
Referring to the Afghan Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, Allen said, "Mullah Omar has lost all control over Taliban insurgents, otherwise he would immediately denounce these attacks and order his 'forces' to stop attacking innocent Afghan civilians." ..."
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