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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”

• Maoists getting arms from China: Official

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) In a first such comment by any Indian official, union Home Secretary G.K. Pillai Sunday said he was “sure” that Maoist guerrillas in India were acquiring weapons from China.The leftist guerrillas follow “the philosophy of Marxism and Leninism and have their own brand of ideology. The ...
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• I Will Kill 10 People For Every IED I Find

  
  Ghosts of Alexander — Authority: 458
  And I was just complaining about militias. Here, for fairness’ sake, is the ANP: Just another day with the Afghan National Police. Context, at the Guardian : Guardian photographer Sean Smith documents the methods used by Afghan National police in the arrest and questioning of a group of Pashtuns after an ...
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• NATO Airstrike Kills Friendly Troops.

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 592
  The search for the two missing U.S soldiers in Afghanistan turned into a tragedy as eight Afghan soldiers lost their lives due to an alleged NATO airstrike gone horribly wrong. The incident also wounded more than 20 Afghan and U.S troops. The two missing American soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd ...
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• Somali insurgents stone man to death for adultery

  
  Abesha Bunna Bet — Authority: 134
  Somali insurgents stone man to death for adultery Mogadishu - The Somali insurgent group al-Shabaab has stoned a man to death for committing adultery in the port town of Marka, officials said. “The 33-year-old man Abbas [Hussein Abdurahman] confessed his crime in front of the Islamic court, and today we have ...
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• A book that will be good

  
  Ghosts of Alexander — Authority: 458
  Well, I’m pretty sure it will be a book. I was checking out new dissertations in the Proquest listings today as part of my effort to catalog all the ones that deal with Afghanistan. I found this: The Coils of the Anaconda: America’s First Conventional Battle in Afghanistan by Lester W. Grau, Ph.D., ...
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• Somali rebels ban musical ring tones, say they are unIslamic

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  London, Nov.5 (ANI): Hardline al Shabaab insurgents who seized the southern Somali port of Kismayu have banned “corrupt” musical ring tones.Al Shabaab, which America says is al Qaeda’s proxy in Somalia, wants to topple the country’s UN-backed government and impose its own strict version of Sharia law.According ...
  3 days ago

• A Hybrid Rumsfeld/Soviet Strategy for Afghanistan

  
  Ghosts of Alexander — Authority: 458
  Two failed strategies from the past, combined into one new strategy? Is this negative × negative = positive? Or negative + negative = negative? And have past failures (i.e., in the title of this blog entry) been ignored? First a brief survey of what may be coming. If you already know this stuff pretty well and ...
  4 days ago

• Pakistan Army storms Taliban stronghold, kill 30 militants

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Islamabad, Nov 4 (IANS) Pakistani security forces have stormed a Taliban stronghold in South Waziristan killing at least 30 militants, as a fierce battle rages in the volatile region bordering Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.The army said heavy fighting erupted on the streets of Ladha town after security forces ...
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• Haqqani Network Suffers Defeat, Massive Desertion

  
  Ghosts of Alexander — Authority: 458
  According to sources, Mullah Omar and the Taliban leadership directed “a large sum of money” to Jalaluddin Haqqani to recruit 3,000 fighters for the Kabul front. However, within two months the combined affect of death and desertion left Haqqani with only 300 men. According to Ahmed Rashid, Haqqani’s inability ...
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• Somali Insurgents Impose A Version Of Islamic Law Called "Anti-Woman" [Womans World]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 824
  Three grassroots womens organizations in the town of Balad Hawa were closed yesterday to prevent women from going to work. Someone "recognized" that women need to stay at home. Also banned: Movies, ringtones, dancing at weddings, playing soccer. [ NY Post ]
  5 days ago

• Are the Negotiators in the Iran Nuclear Weapon Talks Making a Deal With the Devil?

  
  Perfect Argument — Authority: 153
  Dancing with the devil may not be such a wise idea in the case of the nuclear weapons negotiations with Iran and the free-world. And to that point, I do have one question for the International Community; "How can we trust them now?" Iran has lied to the IAEA and stood up in front of the UN while Amedinejad gave a ...
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• Pakistan is selecting some drone targets

  
  Eideard — Authority: 491
  Sometimes politics means not agreeing with the mob.
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• Trapped civilians caught up in shelling in Pakistan’s war

  
  War Victims Monitor — Authority: 124
  rapped civilians caught up in shelling in Pakistan’s war29 Oct 2009 10:44:00 GMTWritten by: Nita BhallaNEW DELHI (AlertNet) – Tens of thousands of civilians in northwest Pakistan need protection from fighting between government forces and Taliban militants and dozens are being injured by shelling and bombardments ...
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• Pakistan: 250,000 displaced in Pakistan’s Waziristan offensive

  
  War Victims Monitor — Authority: 124
  Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:52:13 GMTPress TVPakistan’s military offensive against pro-Taliban militants in a northwestern tribal area has forced nearly 250,000 civilians to flee their homes.As Islamabad’s military operation against pro-Taliban militants in South Waziristan entered its third week, Lieutenant General ...
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• Pakistan: Doubts abound among people of S. Waziristan

  
  War Victims Monitor — Authority: 124
  FEW WILLING TO BACK ARMY‘There is constant fear in our minds’By Haq Nawaz Khan and Karin BrulliardThe Washington PostWednesday, October 28, 2009DERA ISMAIL KHAN, PAKISTAN — As Pakistan’s army battles with guns and jets to wrest control of the restive South Waziristan region from the Taliban, it remains unclear ...
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• PAKISTAN: Harrowing tales of flight from Waziristan

  
  War Victims Monitor — Authority: 124
  PAKISTAN: Harrowing tales of flight from WaziristanPESHAWAR, 22 October 2009 (IRIN) – Many internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have fled South Waziristan tell harrowing tales of rockets hitting roads or houses as they tried to leave areas where Taliban militants are fighting government forces.“I watched my ...
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• Pakistan: Displaced tell of fear after 100,000 flee Pakistan assault

  
  War Victims Monitor — Authority: 124
  Source: Agence France-Presse (AFP)Date: 19 Oct 2009by Lehaz AliDERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan, Oct 19, 2009 (AFP) – Displaced families Monday spoke of air raids and being caught in the crossfire as they struggled to survive with more than 100,000 who have fled Pakistan’s anti-Taliban offensive.Concerns are mounting ...
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• The Talibanization of Pashtun Culture: destruction of cultural identity

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 592
  The Taliban have apparently been fighting for the institutionalization of the Muslim Sharia law, imposing extremist views on the population. These militants and religious fundamentalists forced ‘their ultraconservative brand of Islam in and around the Swat.’ In the process, they have also been ‘displacing ...
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• Roadside bombing kills seven soldiers in Pakistan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 727
  Islamabad, Oct 31 (DPA) At least seven soldiers were killed and about a dozen injured Saturday when a bomb exploded near a troop vehicle in Pakistan’s restive tribal region near the Afghan border, an official said.The vehicle was carrying supplies for the paramilitary troops when a remote-controlled roadside bomb ...
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• Radical Islamists spreading across Africa’s Sahara belt

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 592
  Radical Islamists have moved beyond Algeria where the al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is principally based. These militants have now found support among the Saharan citizens of Mauritania, Mali, and Niger. It has been observed that al-Qaeda rebel movement has been ‘increasingly threatening Africa’s Sahara ...
  1 week ago

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