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• Gorbachev gives Obama advice on Afghanistan

  
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  Washington (CNN) – As the American public and the global community await the completion of the Obama administration’s extensive review of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan, Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the Soviet Union, said Sunday that, instead of sending more troops, Obama should begin to ...
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• Obama leaning toward 34,000 more troops for Afghanistan

  
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  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it until after he consults with key allies and completes a trip to Asia later this month, administration and military officials have told McClatchy.As it now ...
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• Blackwater hiring ex-Pak security officials on mind-boggling salary packages

  
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  Controversial private US security firm, Blackwater is reportedly hiring ex-Pakistan security officials at mind-boggling salaries.Islamabad, Nov.6 : Controversial private US security firm, Blackwater is reportedly hiring ex-Pakistan security officials at mind-boggling salaries.According to The Nation, the US firm has ...
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• Afghans Have Serious Doubts About US Escalation

  
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  After Eight Plus Years of Occupation, Few Relish Massive Troop IncreaseThough top officials in the Afghan and US governments continue to treat the massive escalation of the seemingly endless war as simply a matter of course, there is increasing skepticism among war-weary Afghan civilians.“Americans are saying that ...
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• ExxonMobil-led consortium nets ’supergiant’ Iraq oil field

  
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  Group wins bid to develop west Qurna as baghdad signs up slew of big contractsBAGHDAD: An ExxonMobil-led consortium has beaten rival Russian, French and Chinese groups to bag initial rights to develop Iraq’s West Qurna field, the Oil Ministry said, adding momentum to Iraq’s bid to unlock its oil riches. With ...
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• Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

  
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  The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and ...
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• Italy Convicts 23 Americans for C.I.A. Renditions

  
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  MILAN — In a landmark ruling, an Italian judge on Wednesday convicted a base chief for the Central Intelligence Agency and 22 other American C.I.A. operatives of kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003.The case was a huge symbolic victory for Italian prosecutors, the first convictions involving ...
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• Occupiers involved in drug trade: Afghan minister

  
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  The Afghan minister of counter narcotics says foreign troops are earning money from drug production in Afghanistan. General Khodaidad Khodaidad said the majority of drugs are stockpiled in two provinces controlled by troops from the US, the UK, and Canada, IRNA reported on Saturday.He went on to say that NATO forces ...
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• Obama looks to send fewer additional troops to Afghanistan

  
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  President Obama has asked the Pentagon’s top generals to provide him with more options for troop levels in Afghanistan, two U.S. officials said late Friday, with one adding that some of the alternatives would allow Obama to send fewer new troops than the roughly 40,000 requested by his top commander.Obama met with ...
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• Moore on CNN: ‘No middle ground’ on Afghanistan; ‘We need to leave’

  
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  Filmmaker Michael Moore told CNN’s Larry King that it’s time for President Barack Obama to wind down the war in Afghanistan. "It’s unwinnable. It’s immoral. It’s illegal. It’s wrong," he said. "We need to leave."Moore appeared on the program Thursday along with another war critic, Rep. Ron Paul ...
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• Karzai’s brother said to be on CIA payroll: report

  
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  The brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been getting regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing current and former U.S. officials.Ahmed Wali Karzai is a suspected player in Afghanistan’s opium trade and has been paid by the CIA over the past eight ...
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• U.S. Official Matthew Hoh Resigns in Protest of Afghanistan War Policy

  
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  Matthew Hoh, the senior U.S. civilian in Afghanistan’s Zabul province, resigned in protest because he believes the American effort there is simply fueling the insurgency, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Hoh, a former Marine Corps captain who also served in Iraq, wrote a four-page letter to the State ...
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• Eight more US troops dead making Oct deadliest month in eight-year war

  
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  KABUL — Bomb attacks killed another eight American soldiers Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month for US forces in their eight-year war against the Taliban.The latest attacks, which were claimed by the Taliban, came the day after 14 US soldiers and narcotics agents died in helicopter ...
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• 14 Americans killed in 2 Afghan helicopter crashes

  
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  KABUL (AP) – Helicopter crashes killed 14 Americans on Monday—11 troops and three drug agents—in the deadliest day for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan in more than four years. The deaths came as President Barack Obama prepared to meet his national security team for a sixth full-scale conference on the future of ...
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• Baghdad Suicide Car Bombs Kill More Than 150, Wound Hundreds

  
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  Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) — Twin suicide car bombs targeting government buildings in central Baghdad killed more than 150 people and wounded hundreds in one of the deadliest attacks in recent years, the state-run Iraqi news agency said.The explosions went off at 10:30 a.m. local time yesterday outside the headquarters of ...
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• Protesters urge end to Afghan war

  
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  Soldiers and military families were among 5,000 protesters in London demonstrating against UK military operations in Afghanistan.The Stop the War Coalition says it was the first march against the Afghan war since the conflict began in 2001.L/Cpl Joe Glenton, of York, who faces a court martial for refusing to return to ...
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• CIA Predator drones could aid Taliban, reporter says

  
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  The CIA’s use of Predator drones to kill suspected terrorists in Pakistan, which has significantly increased under the Obama administration, is recognized for its success in taking out intended targets. There are concerns, however, the program could also be helping Taliban leaders with their propaganda, as noted by ...
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• US drone attack kills 27 in Pakistan

  
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  Islamabad: At least 27 people, including militants, were killed Saturday in a US drone attack in northwest Pakistan, media reports said.The drone fired two missiles at a militant hideout in Damadola area of Bajaur tribal agency, killing 27 people and injuring several others, the ARY News channel reported.The hideout ...
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• T. Boone Pickens on Iraq: ‘We leave there with the Chinese getting the oil’

  
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  WASHINGTON — A leading energy developer said the United States has been excluded from Iraq’s revived energy market. T. Boone Pickens told Congress that U.S. companies were losing opportunities in the Iraqi crude oil and natural gas sectors to competitors from China and Europe.The senior executive said the United ...
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• Gates: NATO sending more troops to Afghanistan

  
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  BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says NATO allies are moving toward sending more troops and civilian aid to Afghanistan.Gates said Friday he was "heartened" by allies’ commitment to the 8-year-old war, even as the Obama administration mulls whether to order tens of thousands more U.S. ...
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