Afghan President Hamid Karzai vowed on Friday to strike Taliban insurgents with “immense vigour and force” as a rebel commander said 10,000 fighters had deployed for a spring offensive against foreign troops in the country. “As the weather becomes warm and leaves turn green, we will unleash bloody attacks on the U.S.-led foreign troops,” Mullah Abdul Rahim, the Taliban’s operational commander for the southern Helmand province, said by satellite phone. Full Story