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Afghanistan's insurgency spreading north | csmonitor.com

Afghanistan's insurgency spreading north | csmonitor.com: "The insurgency in Afghanistan has not been 'contained,' Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell testified before a Senate subcommittee in February. 'It's been sustained in the south, it's grown a bit in the east, and what we've seen are elements of it spread to the west and the north.'

A recent study by Sami Kovanen, an analyst with the security firm Vigilant Strategic Services of Afghanistan, echoed this assessment. He reported 465 insurgent attacks in areas outside the restive southern regions during the first three months of 2008, a 35 percent increase compared with the same period last year. In the central region around Kabul there have been 80 insurgent attacks from January through March of this year, a 70 percent jump compared to the first three months of last year."

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