have not gotten any indications of that, but it's too soon to tell."

The Kandahar escape is the latest in a series of high-profile Taliban operations that show the insurgency is fighting back. Over the past year, tens of thousands of U.S. and NATO reinforcements routed the Taliban from many of their southern strongholds, captured leading figures and destroyed weapons caches.

The militants have responded with major attacks across the nation as the spring fighting season has kicked off. In the past two weeks, Taliban agents have launched attacks from inside the Defense Ministry, a Kandahar city police station and a shared Afghan-U.S. military base in the east. In neighboring Helmand province on Saturday, a gunman assassinated the former top civilian chief of Marjah district. That's where U.S. Marines startedHarare, which was owned by his old friend Stanlake Samkange.

Mackay then moved into a small bungalow that he had bought himself in Marondera. In February 2007 thieves broke into Mackay's house, they stole money from his wallet and nearly beat him to death, this incident left him bed-bound for two years. Mackay died in the same house in Eagle Way, Marondera on the 17th of April 2013, after a long illness.

References

External links 
 Peter Mackay Collection at the University of Stirling Archive

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