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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”

• The coffins will keep coming until we conquer our amnesia on Afghanistan | Jonathan Freedland

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Barack Obama is about to make his most crucial military decision. He should remember what took us to war in the first place This is remembrance week, when we are supposed to wear a poppy or stand in silence and remember those who have fallen. And yet we seem to have a problem with memory – especially when it comes ...
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• Huge bomb making stash found in Afghanistan

  
  PrairiePundit — Authority: 498
  CNN: Security forces in southern Afghanistan seized a huge stash of bomb-making material, NATOs International Security Assistance Force reported Tuesday. Afghan National Police and ISAF forces found 500,000 lbs. of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and 5,000 components used in making roadside bombs during a raid Sunday ...
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• Car bomb strikes northwest Pakistan

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 591
  A car bomb explosion has killed at least 30 people outside a crowded market in northwest Pakistan. The bomb tore through a busy traffic intersection on Tuesday in the city of Charsadda, north of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistans North West Frontier Province (NWFP). More than 40 other people were wounded in ...
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• NYT > World: Allies Uncover Vast Cache of Bomb Material in Afghanistan

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 469
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Afghan police and U.S. soldiers discovered a half-million pounds of the fertilizer that is used in most of Afghanistan’s homemade bombs.
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• Embracing Karzai?

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 512
  Despite recent reports that President Obama was  nearing a decision  to deploy approximately 30,000 more troops, Meteor Blades at the Daily Kos explains that National Security Advisor Jim Jones denied the reports as “absolutely false.”  Richard Cohen argues the U.S. must either  surge or revert to ...
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• The Media Holding the Media Accountable

  
  CHUP! - Changing Up Pakistan — Authority: 462
  Reuters/Dawn Photo: Cameraman Takes Footage of Blast Site In the latest Press Freedom Index 2009 , compiled on the basis of questionnaires completed by hundreds of journalists and media experts around the world, Pakistan ranked 159 out of 175 countries . Although the country “has scores of privately owned ...
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• Allies Uncover Vast Cache of Bomb Material in Afghanistan

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  A U.S. Marine searched a farmers home for bomb ingredients in Khan Neshin, in Afghanistans Helmand Province, in August. The Marines found fertilizer but concluded that it was for agricultural use.
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• Have the Taliban Abandoned Toyotas for American Pickup Trucks? [Pickup Trucks]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 737
  If you’re a militiaman rolling in hostile terrain, your best vehicle choice is the Toyota pickup. A minuscule clue in the latest issue of The New Yorker suggests that all that is about to change. Like the AK-47 assault rifle and the RPG–7 bazooka, the Toyota pickup truck has become an icon of irregular ...
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• Exclusive Footage: Afghanistan War: Taliban Seized US Army Weapons

  
  Ekawaaz - One Voice - Many Issues : News Views and Reviews — Authority: 118
  Shocking! And most important A worrying situation for all of us. I still wonder why the hell the US Army left their weapons when they had left the post for re-positioning. A Bigger War strategy or Just a Biggest Mistake by USA and NATO Army? I Report You Decide Via AlJazeeraEnglish
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• Cut that Last Tree Branch where they Perch to Alight

  
  The Pakistani Spectator — Authority: 447
  The war on terror declared by USA after the incident of 9/11 was ultimately brought to our western borders under the pretext that US lead NATO forces were fighting Al Qaeda and were chasing this stateless organisation declared as enemy by United States that it was allegedly using the god forsaken territory of FATA in ...
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• Crisis of Conviction

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 525
  Conviction, consensus, leadership: How democracy should workBy Farrukh Khan Pitafi (Cross-Post, written Oct 13, 2009)Recently an article by Farahnaz Isphahani titled “Democracy does deliver” (dated September 29, 2009) appeared in a section of the press. Having read some of Ms Isphahani’s previous security ...
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• Afghanistan is neither Vietnam nor Iraq

  
  The AfPak Channel — Authority: 641
  By William Tobey As President Obama contemplates a new strategy in Afghanistan, Washingtonis obsessed with whether the best analogy to the conflict lies in Vietnam or Iraq, with attendant and obviousimplications for policy. Of course, Afghanistanhas little in common with either Vietnamor Iraqin terms of history, ...
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• Marines inhabit Taliban mansion

  
  America's North Shore Journal — Authority: 432
  The compound consists of two, three-story buildings, which Marines and Afghan national army soldiers inhabit.The two main buildings are made out of mostly marble and concrete, wooden window frames and doors with designs carved into them. Colored tiles cover the outside. The compound is surrounded by gigantic walls, ...
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• The daily carnage brought to you by the …

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 526
  The daily carnage, brought to you by the Muslims who tell Western Muslims that its a terrible sin to wage war against Muslims. Bomb kills 24, wounds dozens in northwest Pakistan. A suspected car bomb exploded outside a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people in the latest ...
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• Afghanistan strategy debate

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 611
  The debate in Washington over what the US should do in Afghanistan continues. President Barack Obama is considering a substantial troop increase after the American commander on the ground called for such a move in October. But this would not necessarily have widespread popular support. The World’s Jeb Sharp is ...
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• Kunduz op kills over 130 Taliban

  
  America's North Shore Journal — Authority: 432
  Afghan-international security forces conducted clearing operations Nov. 1 through 6 in the Chahar Dara district of the northern region of Kunduz province, killing more than 130 insurgents including eight Taliban commanders. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• A war for womens rights in Afghanistan

  
  PrairiePundit — Authority: 498
  Washington Times: As President Obama considers the way forward in Afghanistan, factions within his party are increasingly torn between their strong wish to bring U.S. troops home and their equally passionate desire to protect Afghans — particularly Afghan women — from a return of the dark rule of the Taliban. ...
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• Indian intelligence team not allowed to question Headley

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington/New Delhi, Nov 10 (IANS) Indian intelligence officials have left the US for home after being denied permission by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to question American national David Coleman Headley, who was arrested at Chicago airport on charges of plotting a major terror attack in India at the ...
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• Charsadda Attack and the Friends of Taliban

  
  Let us build Pakistan — Authority: 439
  Charsadda, 10 November 2009. More than 30 people were killed and over 50 injured in a car bombing in Pakistans north-western city of Charsadda, health officials said on Tuesday. The blast occurred at a busy market in the town, which is located around 30 kilometres north-east of Peshawar, the capital of North-West ...
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• Taliban With U.S. Weapons In Afghanistan

  
  The Political and Financial Markets Commentator — Authority: 497
  What Do You Get If You Keep Sitting On Your Hands Mr. President? You know the punch line to that old joke. When you say that you want to win the war, what exactly does that mean? Slow motion only works in sports replays. You got the vote in the House on healthcare, so now how much longer do we wait for a decision ...
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