(Telegraph-UK) Massoud Ansari - A week after he left the lawless Kandhar province in Afghanistan, Mir Jan, a terrorist trainer, was impatient to return. Eager pupils awaited: a new generation of Taliban recruits who are taught how to fight American troops and turn themselves into human bombs. To avoid detection, Jan is constantly on the move along the border with Pakistan. He holds classes in explosives, hands out maps of American bases, and tells the young volunteers how best to attack them. Last week Afghanistan's struggling government urged Pakistan to do more to prevent Taliban fighters such as Jan from crossing the border, using Pakistan's tribal areas as a refuge from which to attack Afghan targets.
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