`` Situation is serious , '' warns intelligence briefing on Taliban in Afghanistan . A chart in Flynn 's briefing notes that security incidents -- which include improvised-explosive attacks , ambushes , mortar and missile assaults -- routinely hit 500 a week in the second half of 2009 . `` Security incidents '' up to 500 per week in 2009 , from 40 per week five years earlier . Detainees say Taliban trying to distance themselves from al Qaeda , the briefing says . Comment:
`` Situation is serious , '' warns intelligence briefing on Taliban in Afghanistan . `` Security incidents '' up to 500 per week in 2009 , from 40 per week five years earlier . Detainees say Taliban trying to distance themselves from al Qaeda , the briefing says . Comment: