Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Fri Dec 04 10:40:51 -0800 2009
| travel-news
Stanley McChrystal’s official assessment of the situation in Afghanistan lies a little-noticed clue to the puzzling plan announced by President Obama this week. Insurgencies of this nature,” he writes, “typically conclude through military operations and political efforts driving...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Fri Dec 04 10:40:51 -0800 2009
| political-news
While Karzai may be agreeable to talks with the Taliban the Taliban leadership has been consistent all along that negotiations are possible only with the withdrawal of foreign troops. Now that Obama has set a date to begin withdrawal talks...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Fri Dec 04 10:19:41 -0800 2009
| travel-news
Rahmatullah Sediqi, deputy security commander for Herat reported the temporary shutdown of the civilian airport in the western province, following a Thursday attack by suspected Taliban militants, Reuters reported. The local police was quoted as saying that two of the...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Fri Dec 04 00:35:23 -0800 2009
| entertainment-news
Hollywood has finally realized that Tobey Maguire has grown up. The actor who gained fame as a teenager in the "Spider-Man" movies has embraced fatherhood and a new role as a soldier whose family is torn apart by war. The...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Thu Dec 03 14:08:43 -0800 2009
| political-news
The panel weighs in on the import, and potential impact, of the frosty start to Harper's trip to China. The panel discusses the import of Rick Hillier and Michel Gauthier's testimony at the Commission. Did Stephen Harper succeed in wooing...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Fri Dec 04 06:08:50 -0800 2009
| disasters
He’s been warning in that speech and elsewhere that we will be going into Pakistan. The idea that we’re going to bring our troops home eventually is just not so.” Paul added. disinfoverse
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Fri Dec 04 03:01:21 -0800 2009
| political-news
The US and the coalition in Afghanistan are all interested in Afghanistan succeeding, Pakistan remaining stable and solving their own internal problems, and there is a sense of urgency in things being accomplished. So the US should welcome all assistance...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Thu Dec 03 13:11:15 -0800 2009
| travel-news
Guido Westerwelle, the foreign minister,on Thursday told lawmakers that Afghanistan needed not a military solution but “a political solution backed by military means”, which was why Berlin was “putting an emphasis on civilian measures”. But since Barack Obama, US president,...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Fri Dec 04 03:40:37 -0800 2009
| political-news
There's no fury like the fury of a disappointed wife who discovers that the man of her dreams isn't the man she wakes up with...The angry Democrats on the left are about to go after Barack Obama with a (figurative)...
Kabul :: Afghanistan
| updated Thu Dec 03 13:32:57 -0800 2009
| travel-news
on December 3, 2009. The White House has not been clear on whether the 2011 withdrawal from Afghanistan is conditional or "etched in stone." Share and save this post: AlterNet Social Networks: An interesting tidbit from the ...
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