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• Don’t they read their own memos?

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 144
  Unprecedented Incompetence at the White House: The Administration Didn’t Even Know What It Had Ordered Gen. McChrystal To Do After telling McChrystal to “Defeat the Taliban. Secure the Population”, the NSC staff were surprised he took it seriously. I kid you not. Go read Ace’s post, and the WaPo ’s ...
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• Pakistani PM Says Bin Laden Not in Pakistan

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 129
  Pakistans prime minister Thursday rejected claims al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is hiding within his country amid mounting global pressure on Islamabad to tackle terrorists linked to escalating conflict in neighboring Afghanistan.More Articles
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• Laden not in Pakistan : Gilani

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, Dec.4 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Yousuf Raza Gilani has rejected US President Barack Obama’s claims regarding the presence of Al-Qaeda leadership in the country, saying there is no ‘credible’ information’ about Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts.Responding to a question during a joint press ...
  4 days ago

• NY Talibangelicals Defeat Gay Marriage

  
  Silenced Majority Portal — Authority: 444
  Same-sex marriage bill voted down in New York Senate - CNN.com Maybe Obama should send troops in there.
  5 days ago

• McChrystal welcomes Obama troop surge as Nato pledges troops

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The US commander who warned Barack Obama three months ago that he faced defeat in Afghanistan without a massive increase in troop levels today welcomed the Presidents decision to commit an extra 30,000 troops to the war against the Taleban. President Obama announced what amounts to a dramatic escalation of the Afghan ...
  6 days ago

• Zardari’s legal woes may pave way for son Bilawal to power

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, Nov.28 (ANI): As Bilawal Bhutto, the son of assassinated Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and President Asif Ali Zardari, nears end of his degree course at the University of Oxford here, possibilities are that he could well step into the shoes of his father as Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) ...
  1 week ago

• NATO has lost its way in Afghanistan, admits British Army Chief

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, Nov. 28 (ANI): The head of the British Army, General Sir David Richards, has acknowledged that NATO forces have lost their way in Afghanistan, and that they needed to rediscover the moral and physical conviction to succeed against the Taliban.The Chief of the General Staff was comparing NATO’s initial ...
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• Any of these five events could trigger depression:

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Never say never: Depression is possible. It only takes one black swan event, such as 1) Another domestic terror attack. see article: Terrorists Inside U.S. Increase Attacks, Panel Hears 2) Mutated H1N1 becomes virulent pandemic, killing tens of thousands; economy grinds to halt. see article: H1N1 Swine Flu ...
  2 weeks ago

• Another Answer To The Afghan Problem

  
  Info Ink — Authority: 136
  I get email from people all over the country and this one came from a friend in New Mexico…..once I read it I knew I had to post it because a loyal reader of Info Ink…Quin of Quintessential Havoc (great thoughtful site….go to blogroll to visit) is from the UK and I wanted to hear his opinion on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are We Overpaying On Our Afghan Bribes?

  
  The New Republic - the stash Feed — Authority: 138
  Mike Allen highlights an interesting piece from the Times of London  in todays Playbook . Apparently the British army has just released new counter-insurgency guidelines with an emphasis on bribing potential Taliban recruits in Afghanistan: "Addressing the issue of paying off the locals, the new manual states ...
  3 weeks ago

• Will nobody take dollars?? Even bribes to Taleban are paid in gold!

  
  Fuck Bankers — Authority: 171
  Stacy Summary :  I guess the US has flooded Afghanistan with too many bricks of cheap dollars? British Army Manual Tells Soldiers to Buy Off Taleban Recruits with “Bags of Gold”
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• Will nobody take dollars?? Even bribes to Taleban are paid in gold!

  
  Gulag Blog — Authority: 171
  Stacy Summary :  I guess the US has flooded Afghanistan with too many bricks of cheap dollars? British Army Manual Tells Soldiers to Buy Off Taleban Recruits with “Bags of Gold”
  3 weeks ago

• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Cmon Obama, Lets have a real buildup in Afghanistan!

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 119
  This article, by Richard Lee, was posted to The Rag Blog, November 11, 2009 To Barack Obama: Let’s have a military buildup! You can show those crazy-ass generals at the Pentagon that you aren’t just a chicken-shit weenie from Harvard. You gotta do it right, however. Stop waffling about a measly 40,000 or 44,000 ...
  3 weeks ago

• US Tax Payer Dollars Funding The Taliban

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 151
  video via robpatozzHow the US Funds the Talibanby Aram RostonOn October 29, 2001, while the Taliban’s rule over Afghanistan was under assault, the regime’s ambassador in Islamabad gave a chaotic press conference in front of several dozen reporters sitting on the grass. On the Taliban diplomat’s right sat his ...
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - We Will Not Solve the Problem with Troops Alone

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 119
  This interview, with National Security Adviser General James Jones, was published by Spiegel Online International, November 9, 2009 US National Security Adviser James L. Jones talks to SPIEGEL about his skepticism regarding calls for more US troops to be sent to Afghanistan, the chances of Pakistans nuclear ...
  4 weeks ago

• EXCLUSIVE: Rare virus poses new threat to troops

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 151
  via UnslaveMeeBy Sara A. Carter 11/6/09KANDAHAR, Afghanistan | U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus.Dr. Jim Radike, an expert in internal medicine ...
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• Taliban “claim responsibility”…now we know [that they know] that they are winning.

  
  The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG — Authority: 437
  D avid Davis Libertarians don’t do wars. Not really. We all go about in a sort of drug-like RothbardoHayekian Haze, claiming never to want to initiate force or fraud, because of course that’s what States do, right? Of course they do, and of course it’s why we’re broadly all more or less in favour of small, ...
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• Surging Through the Khyber Pass and into a quagmire - Opium, Rape and the American Way Reawaken as Obama Weighs Afghanistan Strategy

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 119
  This article, by Chris Hedges, was posted to Common Dreams.org, November 2, 2009 The warlords we champion in Afghanistan are as venal, as opposed to the rights of women and basic democratic freedoms, and as heavily involved in opium trafficking as the Taliban. The moral lines we draw between us and our adversaries ...
  5 weeks ago

• Exercise Mountain Dragon Helping Troops Train to Fight the Taleban

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 450
  Military personnel and industry partners are using pioneering technology to train Armed Forces personnel for fighting the Taleban in Afghanistan from a hangar at RAF Waddington near Lincoln. RAF Tornado aircrew from II (AC) Squadron based at RAF Marham in Norfolk, Army Air Corps personnel from Wattisham Airfield in ...
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• Armchair Generals, Talking Heads and Other Media Parasites - Americas real quagmire

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 119
  This article, by Mark Welsbrot, was published by The Guardian, October 26, 2009 What kind of a public debate can we have on the most vital issues of the day in the United States? A lot depends on the media, which determines how these issues are framed for most people. Take the war in Afghanistan, which has been ...
  6 weeks ago

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