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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 “Taliban”

• Why the U.S. has to go

  
  All Over the Board — Authority: 420
  Original article , an interview with Malalai Joya via socialistworker.org : Malalai Joya has been called the "bravest woman in Afghanistan" for her outspoken opposition not only to the U.S. occupation of her country, but both the corrupt U.S.-backed government of Hamid Karzai and the Taliban-led insurgency. ...
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• Laden is alive, says Afghan warlord Hekmatyar

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Lahore, Nov.10 (ANI): Wanted Afghan warlord and Hizb-e-Islami chief Gulbudin Hekmatyar has said that Al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden is still alive.A private television channel quoted Hekmatyar as saying that the US would be give a ’safe exit’ if it decides to pull out from Afghanistan.“Al Qaeda’s ‘wrong’ ...
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• A reporter at Huffpo has interviewed the…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 526
  A reporter at Huffpo has interviewed the foreign relations ministers of Hamas and Hezbollah. What’s striking in the introduction is that again and again these groups are defined by their social welfare programs : Hamas and Hezbollah are both seasoned denizens of the US State Department’s List of Terrorist ...
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• Tarakhel Journal: For Taliban Fighters, a Fading Memorial

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 141
  Weeds and rocks and tattered prayer flags obscure much of what is left of a cemetery for Taliban fighters in Tarakhel, Afghanistan.
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• FOX News Panel — Charles Krauthammer Says Barack Obama’s Attacks On Bush Are “Disgusting”

  
  USA | Barack Obama News — Authority: 139
  (10.27.09) — Award-winning columnist rips “child-like” president for Obama’s continued, unseemly and disingenuous attacks on his predecessor…. Post from: USA | Barack Obama News
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• ACT OF COWARDS A man held his child, who was killed in a suicide...

  
  BLOGGING via TYPEWRITER. — Authority: 721
  ACT OF COWARDS A man held his child, who was killed in a suicide bombing, as the child’s grandmother mourned inside a van at a hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Sunday. A Taliban suicide bomber detonated explosives in a market, killing the town’s anti-Taliban mayor and at least 11 other people, officials said. ...
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• No Place for Corruption?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  Under international and domestic pressure to reform, Afghan  President Hamid Karzai declared on Sunday that there is no place for  corrupt officials  within his new government.  President Karzai also suggested that donor countries share some of the  blame for corruption  in Afghanistan for failing to establish ...
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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: 137
  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 ...
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• Fighting in north Afghanistan kills 130 insurgents (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 514
  AP – Afghan and international troops killed more than 130 insurgents in six days of fighting in a once-stable area of northern Afghanistan that has seen a recent spike in Taliban attacks, NATO said Monday. It was some of the heaviest fighting in the north this year. Read the original post: (AP)"> ...
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• The fall of the Berlin Wall: 20 years later

  
  Sherryx's Weblog — Authority: 112
  With capitalism facing its worse crisis after 1929, the imperialists powers are gathering in Germany to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall. As like always, history has different meanings for the elites and imperialists and the people. The imperialists hailed it has the triumph of democracy and freedom, the fall of ...
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• NATO, Afghans claim to kill 130 Taliban …

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 526
  NATO, Afghans claim to kill 130 Taliban in Kunduz. NATO and Afghan officials claimed on Monday their forces had killed at least 130 Taliban fighters in a major operation over the past week in an area of Afghanistan’s north where militant activity has surged. a
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• How to Flunk the Taliban

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  An interesting story in the San Francisco Chronicle highlighting how private schools are outcompeting both radical madrasas and government schools in the hearts and minds of a great many Pakistanis. Sounds a little bit like this .
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• A pratical strategy for Afghanistan

  
  The Daily Clarity — Authority: 128
  The more we research Afghanistan and the current NATO strategy, the more we are convinced that the mission objectives are fatally flawed. The West is trying to hoist an ideal of a society – democratic, plurality possessed, centralized- on a nation at best loosely formed. Matthew Hoh, a political officer in the ...
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• Afghanistan’s Sham Army

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 726
  By Chris Hedges American military commanders measure progress by the swelling size of the Afghan army, although the force is said to be poorly trained, sympathetic to the Taliban and the scourge of local populations. READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 5, 2009 Keep the Government Out of the ...
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• Afghanistan’s Sham Army by Chris Hedges

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 541
  by Chris HedgesFeatured WriterDandelion SaladTruthdigNov. 9, 2009Success in Afghanistan is measured in Washington by the ability to create an indigenous army that will battle the Taliban, provide security and stability for Afghan civilians and remain loyal to the puppet government of Hamid Karzai. A similar task ...
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• Taliban blast kills Pakistani Mayor and 13 others

  
  UwidoNews - Submitted news — Authority: 510
  The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack that killed 13 people including a local anti-Taliban mayor in Pakistans northwest. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/11/2009118125826948460.html
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• Taliban Still Working for the CIA?

  
  EndrTimes — Authority: 445
  Taliban Still Working for the CIA? November 6, 2009 by Henry Makow Ph.D. As President Obama ponders whether to send more troops to Afghanistan, there is mounting evidence the Taliban is supported by the CIA. If correct, the Afghan war is a charade with a hidden agenda. First, we have many reports that ...
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• Are Pakistans Nuclear Weapons Safe?

  
  Homeland Security News — Authority: 529
  The prospect of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of al Qaeda or the Taliban in Pakistan is perhaps the most immediate threat facing the US. It’s thought that Pakistan has an arsenal of nearly 100 missiles, however; no one is certain of the total, or for that matter where many of the nuclear weapons [...] This ...
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• Resignation Letter of Matthew P. Hoh, US Embassy Employee Afghanistan

  
  Pro-Pakistan — Authority: 128
  I have just been forwarded this widely circulated resignation letter of Matthew P . Hoh, Senior Civilian Representative, Zabul Province, US Embassy in Afghanistan. I read the letter and found it to give a very good insight into the actual ground reality instead of what has been reported by the Western media. The ...
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• And God Created Broadband…..

  
  Cheap Broadband Internet — Authority: 438
  The twenty ninth day of October that passed silently would had been the ideal day for the government of the United Kingdom to announce solemnly its crucial digital policies such as universal broadband, the 50p broadband tax proposal and the anti-filesharing legislation proposals. Particularly for the day marked ...
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