Insurgents

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• in Politics
  More U.S. Combat Soldiers in Afghanistan?
  U.S.Army Special Forces Counterinsurgency Efforts Continue Despite shortage on U.S. Green Beret Advisers in Afghanistan.
  by desperatelands / on Nov 3, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Insurgents”

• Chemical from detained ship spills on road in W. Bengal, authorities order probe

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  East Midnapore (WB), Dec 10 (ANI): Port and district authorities in East Midnapore of West Bengal ordered a thorough probe after tonnes of ammonium nitrate, contained in a detained ship from Estonian freight ship spilled on a busy road during transportation. A cargo ship, M.V Fani carrying around 8,000 tonnes of ...
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• Pak Taliban chief vows to strike Army in winter with devastating force

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Lahore, Dec, 9 (ANI): The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakeemullah Mehsud has warned that the Taliban would take on the Pakistan Army with more intent during the winter season.“We will wait till January for our offensive since we are stronger during the snowing season,” Mehsud told CNN over ...
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• ‘Intolerant’ Pak could help US ‘finish off’ Haqqqani network: McChrystal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, Dec.9 (ANI): General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, has said that if Pakistan takes stringent action against the Haqqani network inside its territory, dismantling the Al-Qaeda linked group would be a matter of time for the US troops.“If the Pakistan government became ...
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• Baghdad Blasts Claim Life Of More Than One Hundred People

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  By Meena KarBaghdad, Dec. 08, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq, which has not yet recovered from the trauma of war was shaken by series of blasts in different parts of the city yet again. It has been reported by the sources that several educational institutions were mainly targeted for the serial car ...
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• Gates says US withdrawal from Afghanistan will take ’several years’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Kabul, Dec 8 (DPA) US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan would take “several years” as Afghan forces needed to be strengthened by recruiting more soldiers and police to take charge of the country’s security.Gates, who arrived in Kabul on a surprise visit ...
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• Insurgent FAIL/WIN

  
  Ghosts of Alexander — Authority: 522
  Insurgents play on US exercise equipment from a base that was “strategically redeployed from” (in the most favorable description I could come up with): Danger Room declares it a “a big infowar fail” because the guys look silly playing on on the health club toys. I suppose that is the best spin that one ...
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• Steve Coll apology to Leah Farrall in 5-4-3-2…

  
  Ghosts of Alexander — Authority: 522
  Australian PhD student Leah Farrall has a dialogue going with Abu Walid al Masri, who has had a large influence over many Islamists and who also has had a special relationship with the Taliban. Al Masri contacted her because she clearly understand “jihadism” and Islamist political thought. He also slips in some ...
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• US won’t negotiate with Pak-Taliban: Gates

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, Dec. 7 (ANI): US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said that President Obama is sending extra troops to Afghanistan in order to bring the Taliban to the negotiation table, but clarified that America won’t negotiate with Taliban leaders in Pakistan, as “it’s up to the Pakistani military to deal with ...
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• Somalia fires heads of police force and military

  
  World Military Forum - Latest Military News — Authority: 128
  MOGADISHU – Somalia’s government fired the head of its police force and its military chief on Sunday two days after a suicide bomber killed three ministers and several others in the capital of the lawless Horn of Africa nation. Somali government soldiers ride on the back of an armed pickup truck next to the ...
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• ‘Concerned’ India wants US to stay in Afghanistan till peace, stability returns

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  New Delhi, Dec.6 (ANI): Expressing concern over President Obama’s plan to start pulling American troops out of Afghanistan by mid-2011, top government sources here have said that America must not vacate war-ravaged Afghanistan until the establishment of peace and stability there.Sources said, ever since President ...
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• Two Taliban commanders among 20 killed

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Two Taliban ‘commanders’ among 20 killed SNIPPET: "MINGORA/KOHAT: Two Taliban ‘commanders’ were among 20 militants killed in clashes and air strikes in Swat and Orakzai Agency on Thursday. In Swat, 13 insurgents were killed in clashes with security forces on Thursday. According to Swat media centre, security ...
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• Maoists set Chhattisgarh rest house on fire

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Raipur, Dec 6 (IANS) More than 100 Maoist guerrillas Saturday raided a rest house in an interior village of Chhattisgarh and set it on fire, police said Sunday.The rest house was located at Khallari village under Sihawa forested circle in Dhamtari district, some 120 km from state capital Raipur.“Insurgents stormed ...
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• Reducing India-Pak tension important for America’s strategic interests: US NSA

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, Dec.6 (ANI): US National Security Adviser, General James Jones has stressed that reducing tension between India and Pakistan was more important to its strategic interests than resolving the Afghan issue.“The strategic interests of the United States lie more to the east of Afghanistan, for the future. ...
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• Digest: At least 7 insurgents killed in Afghanistan

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 959
  AFGHANISTAN U.S. Marines and Afghan troops have killed at least seven Taliban fighters during the first U.S.-led offensive since President Obama announced a revamped American war plan this week, Afghan officials said Saturday.
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• Pakistan needs to destroy terror safe havens: US(Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 5 (IANS) The United States has said Pakistan as a “nuclear state” was well aware of its “enormous responsibilities” that included working in “close partnership” with Washington to dislodge, dismantle and destroy terrorist “safe havens” in the country, “Obviously as a ...
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• ‘Nuclear’ Pak should know its responsibilities: US NSA

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, Dec.5 (ANI): US National Security Adviser, James Jones has said that Pakistan is a nuclear state, and that it should be aware of its responsibilities in this regard.Briefing media persons on President Obama’s new Afghan policy here, Jones said being a nuclear power state, Pakistan has huge ...
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• US seeks ties with Pakistan beyond nuclear, insurgency issues

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 5 (IANS) The United States has for the first time acknowledged Pakistan as a nuclear state that was very well aware of its enormous responsibilities, but said it would like to build ties with Islamabad beyond nuclear and insurgency issues.“Obviously as a nuclear state Pakistan has ...
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• Nothing is impossible for disabled former soldier (Dec 3 is World Disability Day)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  By Ritu SharmaNew Delhi, Dec 3 (IANS) Prabhajit Singh left the comfort of his home in Ambala, Haryana on Jan 19 to cycle across India alone. Sounds easy except that the former Indian Army soldier lost his left hand and foot in a train accident.Singh, 41, set out on his mission to tell people [...]
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• Coming Up: War with the Pashtun

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 580
  The new US troop surge has started to move into the homelands of ethnic Pashtuns in eastern and southern Afghanistan. Pashtuns are fierce fighters of invaders. They hate intruders. The Taliban are made up of ethnic Pashtuns. Obama’s new strategy in Afghanistan, sending 30k new troops into the country, ‘will ...
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• NATO chief urges allies to fill Afghan shortfall (AFP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AFP - NATOs chief urged allies on Wednesday to join the United States in a major troop surge in Afghanistan, with thousands more soldiers needed for a new strategy to seize the initiative from the insurgents.
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