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• in Politics
  Taliban Using US Weapons Against US Army
  This news about Taliban using US weapons and the Al-Jazeera broadcast video at YouTube is demonstrating the same is quite disgusting.
  by jaideepkhanduja / on Nov 11, 2009
• 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 “Taliban”

• New Offensive in Helmand Province. But Why?

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 151
  Today, the U.S. Marines kicked off a new push against bad guys in Afghanistans fertile and poppy-rich southern province. Per the AP: Gen. David Petraeus says the Marine Corps offensive launched Friday in southern Afghanistan is part of preparations for the arrival of 30,000 new U.S. reinforcements. Petraeus told ...
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• Obama’s speech on Afghanistan: A compendium of lies

  
  Pak Alert Press — Authority: 571
  In his December 1 speech at West Point announcing the deployment of 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan, President Barack Obama attempted to justify a major escalation of a deeply unpopular war on the basis of lies and distortions. That he had to resort to such falsifications reflects both the reactionary character ...
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• Obama’s Hesitation on Afghanistan May Cost Him Dearly: Liberation, France

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 713
  http://worldmeets.us/images/obama.hope.afghanistan_hojemacau.gif Now that the decision has been made to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, few seem either pleased or optimistic. That would include columnist Francois Sergent of France’s Liberation , who writes in part: “He can no longer attribute ...
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• Our timeline, and the Taliban’s

  
  War in Context — Authority: 507
  Our timeline, and the Taliban’sBy Max Hastings, New York Times, December 4, 2009It is hard to be optimistic about the outcome of President Obama’s troop “surge” in Afghanistan. The additional forces sound large in headlines, but shrink small in the mountains. The commitment is intended as an earnest indication ...
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• The U.S. Government Is Taking Us Down

  
  Moral Philosophy and Current Events — Authority: 123
  By Jacob G. Hornberger December 01, 2009 "fff" --- President Obama has decided to up the ante in Afghanistan by acceding to his generals’ request to send an additional 34,000 troops to that beleaguered nation. What better proof that those of us who opposed the initial invasion of Afghanistan were right? The ...
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• Webb on Afghanistan: ‘How do we define our enemy?’

  
  Augusta Free Press — Authority: 428
    Statement from U.S. Sen. Jim Webb www.webb.senate.gov I have great regard for the careful process employed by this administration in an effort both to define a new approach for the long-standing military commitment in Afghanistan and to put an operational framework in place for our responsible withdrawal. ...
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• Obama’s True Colors By Timothy V. Gatto

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  By Timothy V. GattoFeatured WriterDandelion Saladliberalpro.blogspot.comDecember 4, 2009Let me start by offering my condolences to those who lost their knight in shining armor. I would like to take this opportunity to say I told you so, but that would be the act of a man kicking someone who’s down, so I won’t. ...
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• Osama bin Laden is in Afghanistan

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 581
  A high-ranking member of the Taliban insurgent group who is now detained in  Pakistan says that he was offered a chance to have a meeting with Osama bin Laden in January or February of this year, and ‘that the al-Qaeda leader is in eastern Afghanistan, not northern Pakistan as widely believed.’ This inmate had ...
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• 1,000 Marines lead offensive aganst Taliban

  
  PrairiePundit — Authority: 542
  Fox News: U.S. Marines and Afghan troops on Friday launched the first offensive since President Obama announced an American troop surge, striking against Taliban communications and supply lines in a southern insurgent stronghold, a military spokesman said. Hundreds of troops from ...
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• US looks to expand drone attacks in Pakistan (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 179
  AP - The Obama administration is considering widening missile strikes on al-Qaida and the Taliban inside Pakistan, and is planning to bolster the training of Pakistans forces in a key border battleground where militants fuel the escalating Afghan insurgency, according to U.S. officials.
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• Obama Slammed By Military Experts

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 488
  Jim sent this in: Several former US military commanders have complained about President Barack Obama dragging his feet in deciding whether or not to give his generals the additional troops they say they need to succeed in Afghanistan.  Now after Obama’s speech Tuesday night, these military experts continue to ...
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• Bin Laden spotted in Afghanistan?

  
  Infidels Are Cool — Authority: 625
  Maybe but almost for sure the detainee who’s making the claim is lying. Most likely this captured jihadi is just a little more clever than the average Taliban dingbat.  A little leverage never hurt anyone.  After all, he know he won’t be water boarded or anything since we don’t do enhanced interrogations ...
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• US looks to expand Pakistan drone attacks (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 172
  AP – U.S. officials say the Obama administration is considering widening its drone strikes on al-Qaida and … Read the original post: (AP)"> (AP)">US looks to expand Pakistan drone attacks (AP)
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• Afghan ambassador: Afghans must talk to taliban

  
  Report on Arrakis — Authority: 581
  Yet another person saying that we need to talk to the taliban in order to end the war. The past month has seen a lot of buzz about the need to negotiate, talk, dialogue with the taliban in order to end the war. I think talks with the taliban will happen and that well simply hand back Afghanistan to them. From ...
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• About those civilian fatalities

  
  The AfPak Channel — Authority: 596
  By Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann Scott Shane has a must-read in todays New York Times about thepossible expansion of the CIAs program of drone strikes in Pakistans tribal areas to Baluchistan,the large and sparsely populated southern Pakistani province where the AfghanTaliban is headquartered. Having ...
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• Afghanistan: NATO Promises 7,000 Troops

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 440
  As General McChrystal assured the Afghan cabinet the U.S. was not  abandoning  its mission,  Secretary Clinton, in an op ed for The Telegraph,  called on all nations to  help with the mission  in Afghanistan. Ultimately, she asserts: ”we recognise that only the Afghan people can decide what kind of ...
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• Afghanistan Conundrum at True/Slant

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 694
  E.D. Kain interviewed me via email yesterday for True/Slant on President Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy. Two short excerpts: Kain : Can a surge in Afghanistan work? Joyner: [I]t really depends on what we mean by “work.” And that’s not clear. If it’s defeating al Qaeda and the Taliban and ...
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• Give peace talks a chance

  
  The AfPak Channel — Authority: 596
  By Mehlaqa Samdani President Obamas troopsurge is designed to "strengthen the capacity of Afghanistanssecurity forces and government so that they can take lead responsibility for Afghanistansfuture". It is estimated that one-third of the 30,000 additional troops will bedevoted to the training of Afghan police and ...
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• The American troop surge cannot come soon enough for Pakistan

  
  News Politics — Authority: 133
  The latest bombing in Pakistan just goes to emphasise the desperate need for a greater military commitment from the West to prosecute the war on terror.The reason the Pakistani government is under attack by Islamist miltants is because of the rigorous action it is taking against the Palistani Taliban and al-Qaeda in ...
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• War (on Women) Is Peace

  
  Corrente — Authority: 624
  Lately, Ive been hearing a lot of noise from lefty and womens rights organizations about the next Big Thing: The rights of Afghan women and girls. Eleanor Smeals group, Feminist.org (yes, shes one of the ones who helped with the infamous Obama Ms. Magazine cover ), has a campaign for them . NOW and The Nation ...
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