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<b>Troop increase for Afghanistan: Taliban tell NATO to ‘bring it on</b>’ <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->KABUL: A Taliban commander on Thursday welcomed NATO’s plans to send more soldiers to Afghanistan, saying it would provide the insurgents with more targets.

<b>“Increasing or expanding NATO troops in Afghanistan is not a worry for the Taliban, instead it will make targets for the Taliban mujahideen much easier,” Commander Mullah Obaidullah told Reuters, adding that the hardline Islamists could fight for 20 years.</b>

<b>“After five years of continuous fighting against foreign troops, the Taliban have become a strong military power and the Taliban are able to fight and defeat the strongest army.”</b>

Obaidullah also repeated Taliban threats to step up suicide attacks, a tactic which killed several foreign soldiers before and during this week’s NATO summit in the Latvian capital of Riga.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->