War in Afghanistan

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• Eikenberry assures Afghans U.S. will stay beyond 2011

  
  War in Context — Authority: 483
  Eikenberry assures Afghans U.S. will stay beyond 2011By Thomas L. Day, McClatchy, December 17, 2009U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry Thursday further signaled that a strong American military presence will remain in Afghanistan long after July 2011, when President Obama plans to end his troop ...
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• Afghan Children React to "Wizard of Oz" / Die of Neglect / Happy Christmas Afghanistan

  
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• Pakistan officials: U.S. missile attacks kill 17

  
  TexasFred — Authority: 527
  Pakistan officials: U.S. missile attacks kill 17 MIR ALI, Pakistan – Two U.S. missile strikes — including one believed to be the largest ever using Predator drones — pummeled targets inside the main sanctuary for Qaida and the Taliban along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan on Thursday, killing 17 people, ...
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• NATO Airstrike Kills Another Three Civilians in Afghanistan

  
  Brave New Films blog — Authority: 122
  AFP reports that a NATO airstrike from a helicopter gunship killed three civilian men and wounded a woman in Kandahar province, Afghanistan . NATO’s International Security Assistance Force’s (ISAF) press release claims the helicopter crew fired at men placing IEDs next to the road and afterwards “discovered ...
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• Opportunity Lost: Obama in Oslo

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 143
  By Daniel C. Maguire , Consortiumnews.com , Dec 16, 2009 Editor’s Note: In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech in Oslo, President Barack Obama downplayed the bloodshed caused by scores of U.S. military interventions and covert operations over the past six decades – and sought to justify ...
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• U.S. Launches Predator Attacks in Pakistan that Kill 16 Terrorists - Video Report 12/17/09

  
  Freedom's Lighthouse — Authority: 555
  Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy Here is a brief report on what is being called the largest ever Predator attack by U.S. Forces in Pakistan. The attack was against terrorists in the Northern Pakistan region of Waziristan, just over the border with Afghanistan. A total ...
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• Iranian-Backed Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  Militants in Iraq have used $26 off-the-shelf software to intercept live video feeds from U.S. Predator drones, potentially providing them with information they need to evade or monitor U.S. military operations.Senior defense and intelligence officials said Iranian-backed insurgents intercepted the video feeds by ...
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• Afghans fleeing Taliban are flooding Tajikistan

  
  War in Context — Authority: 483
  Afghans fleeing Taliban are flooding TajikistanBy Isabel Gorst, Washington Post, December 17, 2009The night his 11-year-old son escaped from kidnappers, Abdul Aziz bundled a few belongings into a car and drove his family 18 miles north across the Afghan border into Tajikistan. “It is too frightening to live in ...
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• Reading WW2 Propaganda Posters: Silence

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 157
  So, I seem to have pissed off some militant WW2 buff-wads (like Fred ) with my queries in the post below. Let’s see if I can piss off some more of them! This next set of American WW2 proraganda posters focuses on SILENCE as patriotic, which I think is veeeeery interesting! I’m interested here in ...
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• AP-GfK Poll: Gains for Obama, not his Afghan plans (BARF!! AP Public Relations Push Poll)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  WASHINGTON (AP) - Budget deficits are in the stratosphere. Unemployment has hit 10 percent. The health care overhaul is incomplete. Still, Americans appear to like President Barack Obama and the way hes doing his job. The latest Associated Press-Gfk poll shows the presidents popularity holding steady, with 56 percent ...
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• Left out: Liberals frustrated by Obama’s compromises

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 460
  Liberal Democrats in and out of Congress are expressing mounting frustration with President Obama and what they say are decisions by the president discarding major elements of their agenda. The political left provided Mr. Obamas base of support during last years election but has been disappointed repeatedly during his ...
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• Liberals frustrated by Obama’s compromises

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 460
  Liberal Democrats in and out of Congress are expressing mounting frustration with President Obama and what they say are decisions by the president discarding major elements of their agenda. The political left provided Mr. Obamas base of support during last years election but has been disappointed repeatedly during his ...
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• Afghan war successful : Gen.Petraeus

  
  World Military Forum - Latest Military News — Authority: 136
  WASHINGTON — US regional military commander General David Petraeus on Wednesday called Washington’s fight against terrorism in Afghanistan “successful,” even if Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has not been captured.“There has always been a significant focus of resources to...
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• BNP MEP questions Taliban place on terror group list

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 138
  . British National Party MEP Andrew Brons today questioned whether the Taliban should be on an EU list of banned terror groups which includes al-Qaida Organisations and individuals on the list are subject to sanctions and travel restrictions in Europe, but Mr Brons told fellow MEPs in ...
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• The Scorpion and the Frog

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  THE CRYING GAME, a 1992 film by Neil Jordan, is about the revolting and endless twentieth century Irish Troubles. At least some of the time, it is also about the strange bedfellows with which we bunk down when we live in the expectation of dying-not dying eventually, but dying any moment now. Forest Whitaker is an ...
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• Trying to tame a monster we created

  
  Applesauce — Authority: 145
   .   .     Ordinarily, I have little use for the writings of Maureen Dowd. .    Her COLUMN today is an exception. .    An excerpt: .    In a bit of unpoetic justice, Bob Gates helped create the mess in Afghanistan decades ago and now has to try to clean it up. .    At the C.I.A. in the ...
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• Taliban ‘can be admired for religious conviction’ says forces bishop

  
  TitusOneNine — Authority: 580
  The Rt Rev Stephen Venner called for a more sympathetic approach to the Islamic fundamentalists. The Church of England’s Bishop to the Forces said it would be harder to reach a peaceful solution to the war if the insurgents were portrayed too negatively. His comments in an interview with The Daily Telegraph came ...
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• Ministry of Defence Announces Plan for 22 New Chinook Helicopters

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 449
  The Ministry of Defence will give a major boost to the military helicopter fleet with 22 new Chinook helicopters, the Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth has announced. The first ten new Chinooks will start to roll off the production line in 2012 and be completed in 2013 increasing air support on the front-line in ...
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• It’s Official: British People Will Lose Their Jobs to Fund the Illegal War in Afghanistan

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 600
  Thousands of British people will lose their jobs to fund the Labour and Tory-supported illegal war in Afghanistan, it was announced today. The Royal Air Force base at Cottesmore in Rutland will be closed and thousands of defence jobs in the armed forces and the civil service cut to make way for more than £900 ...
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• Obama refuses to rule out drone attacks in Quetta

  
  War in Context — Authority: 483
  Obama refuses to rule out drone attacks in QuettaBy Anwar Iqbal, Dawn, December 15, 2009President Barack Obama has warned that the United States would launch strikes inside Pakistan if it had actionable intelligence about the presence of top Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in a particular area.His statement – included ...
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