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Blog Source: www.afghanconflictmonitor.org
'UK PM Brown and NATO chief to discuss Afghanistan situation', 23 October 2008 'NATO's political will "wavering" in Afghanistan', 20 October 2008 'Conflicts put NATO to the test', 20 August 2008 'Insurgent activities increase in ...
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Blog Source: www.afghanconflictmonitor.org
According to the terms of reference of the mission, the council plans to reassure Kabul of it's support. It will also 'review the progress made by the Afghan Government ... in addressing the interconnected challenges in the areas of ...
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Blog Source: www.afghanconflictmonitor.org
In an address to the Atlantic Council of the United States think tank in Washington, McKiernan said that his standing request for about 20000 additional troops would be approved -- 'hopefully quickly' -- by U.S. officials. ...
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Blog Source: clearinghouse.infovlad.net
But the Taliban forbid drivers from carrying fuel to the foreign troops, he said, and the insurgents run checkpoints on the road between Afghanistan's two largest cities. He rejected the offer. One of his friends took the assignment, ...
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Blog Source: anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com
By October, 135 American troops had been killed in Afghanistan this year — already surpassing the total of 117 fatalities for all of 2007. The Taliban are also intensifying their attacks on aid workers: In a particularly brazen assault ...
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Blog Source: pragmatos.net
On my last day in Kabul, a Western aid official reminds me of the words of a high-ranking Taliban leader, who recently explained why the United States will never prevail in Afghanistan. “You Westerners have your watches,” the leader ...
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Blog Source: desertpeace.wordpress.com
Would the American Congress and government ever agree to grant a foreigner living in the US immunity from prosecution by American courts in the event he or she committed a felony, or even a misdemeanor, on American soil? ...
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Blog Source: badmatthew.blogspot.com
"More troops are not the answer," a senior United Nations official in Kabul tells me. "You will not make more babies by having many guys screw the same woman." It is a point echoed in dozens of off-the-record interviews I conducted in ...
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Blog Source: gaynorfolk-net.norfolk.on.ca
He doesn't think the US or NATO forces are winning in Afghanistan. His latest article for Rolling Stone, coming out October 30th, is called "How We Lost the War We Won: A Journey into Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan." Nir Rosen joins us ...
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Blog Source: sos-at.blogspot.com
Security is meaningless until foreign troops no longer claim authority over lands that are not their own. Politics must be left to work its messy magic. The West must get out with as much dignity as it can muster. ...