Taliban captives dispute US view on Afghanistan war

02/02/12:  The New York Times reports that more Taliban insurgents are being killed or captured than ever before, yet when the captives are interrogated by the American military, they remain convinced that they are winning the war. The Taliban captives tell their interrogators that their hearts-and-minds campaign is converting a growing number of Afghan government officials and soldiers. This is one of the findings of a NATO report, “State of the Taliban 2012,” based on 27,000 interrogations of 4,000 Taliban and other captives that portrays a Taliban insurgency that is far from vanquished or demoralized even as the United States and its allies enter what they hope will be the final phase of the war.