'Unfortunately the confrontation was left to evolve on Mr Maddison's terms,' Mr Ryan said. He said it was not reasonable for Snr Cnst Forte and his partner to call off the pursuit but a tactical commander could have come up with an effective plan. Mr Ryan described the absence of an overall tactical command during the police pursuit of Maddison as a 'significant failure of leadership'. He had fired at police, including at a helicopter, 21 times. He died from gunshot and shrapnel wounds (pictured, Snr Cnst Forte's widow Susie Forte, left, with Snr Cnst Catherine Nielson) Maddison opened fire on police vehicles with automatic weapons, peppering Snr Cnst Forte's car with 27 bullets. Maddison was later shot dead after being warned to surrender more than 80 times during a 20-hour siege. He died from gunshot and shrapnel wounds. The officer urgently reversed but the vehicle rolled, trapping him and his partner Snr Cnst Cath Nielsen inside. 'The events that transpired when Mr Maddison exited his vehicle following a marked change in the terrain along the roadway had the hallmarks of an ambush,' Mr Ryan said. Police spotted his vehicle in Toowoomba and followed him on the Warrego Highway, before Maddison abruptly stopped on a dirt road. Maddison, 40, had been on the run and hiding in a rural stronghold for almost three months, avoiding an arrest warrant for a domestic violence incident. "It is possible to see a more brutal group than the Taliban and ISIS in Afghanistan in the future," Farhadi said.Mr Ryan said there were several systemic factors that may have contributed to 42-year-old Sen Const Forte's death and it was possible the fatal shooting may have been prevented (pictured: Brett Forte's widow Susie Forte outside Brisbane Magistrates Court on Tuesday)
He also warned that many of the extremist group's foot soldiers, who haven't benefitted much directly from it seizing power, could be tempted to join opposing, possibly even more extremist groups. Tariq Farhadi, a former advisor to Afghanistan's Western-backed President Ashraf Ghani who now works as a political analyst, also said the Taliban should expect more such attacks against its allies. "Afghanistan is struggling with a regional intelligence war in which everyone is trying to pursue their own interest." "The attacks against countries and individuals supporting the Taliban directly and indirectly will increase," Ahmad Saeedi, a political analyst and former diplomat told CBS News. Political analysts believe the attacks on the Taliban's supporters highlight a growing danger for the country, and one which they believe will only increase as ISIS and other opposing groups try to show the Taliban is incapable of securing the country. A member of the Taliban security forces walks near a site of an attack at Shahr-e-naw which is city's one of main commercial areas in Kabul on December 12, 2022. The Russians were even accused of putting up a bounty on American troops in Afghanistan. Pakistan, Russia, China, and Iran, some of Afghanistan's neighbors, have all been accused of supporting the Taliban at various points over the last 20 years. In September, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Russian Embassy in the heart of Kabul, killing two Russian diplomats in what appeared to be the first attack on a foreign diplomatic mission in Afghanistan since the fall of the country to the Taliban. The attack was claimed by ISIS-K, and the Taliban is said to have arrested suspects. The ambassador himself narrowly escaped assassination. Last week, gunmen attacked the Pakistani ambassador at his embassy compound in Kabul, wounding a Pakistani guard. On Sunday, China's Ambassador Wang Yu met in Kabul with the Taliban regime's Deputy Foreign Minister, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, and called on the group "to pay more attention to the security of the Chinese Embassy in Kabul," according to a statement from the Taliban Ministry of foreign affairs. Monday's complex attack seemingly targeting Chinese nationals appeared to be the latest in a string of violent acts directed at the few countries that the Taliban can count amongst its allies.
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