Posts Tagged ‘Taliban’

Suicide Bomb Attack Claims 13 Lives In Afghanistan

Friday, November 20, 2009 10:13 By Rajeev Saxena

In yet another instance of the rising violence in Afghanistan, a suicide bomber, riding a motorcycle killed 13 people in Farah, Afghanistan and injured 30 more, among whom several of those injured are children. The Afghan polices repeatedly asked the motorcyclist to stop, instead the bomber detonated the explosives wrapped around him.
According to General Mohammad [...]

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The Real Issue in the Afghanistan Debate: US Exit Plan

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 23:50 By GSerrano

The bedrock principle in the debate on the war in Afghanistan rests on the idea that whatever military action the US undertakes in the country will only serve as ‘a prelude to, rather than a substitute for, Afghanistan taking over the security job.’
That is saying that the ‘White House wants to make sure surge will [...]

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The ‘War of Necessity’: challenges of the troop surge strategy in Afghanistan

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 14:04 By GSerrano

US President Barack Obama is expected to hand down soon his decision on the war in Afghanistan. The decision at this point is no longer whether to send more troops to Afghanistan or not, but how many tens of thousands of additional US soldiers should be sent to the wartorn country to fight a long-drawn [...]

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Is Hamid Karzai really such a bad option? The Afghans may not think so.

Monday, November 16, 2009 21:31 By GSerrano

It’s the classic tight spot between the devil and the deep blue sea. Afghans are caught between having a corrupt and election-cheating Karzai as president and a historical scenario dominated by the likes of Mullah Omar, languishing in a civil war, or the Soviet regime. By Afghan standards, these are better times in Afghanistan. In [...]

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Saving Afghanistan the NATO way: needing contribution from Muslim countries

Monday, November 16, 2009 19:58 By GSerrano

NATO Secretary-General Anders Rasmussen admits that the countries within the Mediterranean Dialogue and the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative share the northern alliance’s interests in stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan. This is for the reason that instability in Afghanistan will cause the spread of instability in the region. Pakistan, specifically, is of grave concern in terms of [...]

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Insurgents Strike At French & Tribal Meeting In Afghanistan

Monday, November 16, 2009 19:23 By Rajeev Saxena

A meeting between the commander of the French forces in Afghanistan and the local tribal leaders was attacked today by insurgents with rockets that claimed the lives of 12 civilians and injured 38 others. The meeting between the French Brigadier General Marcel Druart and the local tribal leaders was centered on a French military offensive [...]

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In Fort Hood (just like in Afghanistan), US failure to know Muslims well enough?

Monday, November 16, 2009 1:33 By GSerrano

The massacre at Fort Hood occurred at a time when US President Barack Obama is at the final stage of decision-making about what to do with the US war in Afghanistan. The Afghan war has been proving to be a failure in the US antiterrorism mobilization, as well as its counterinsurgency campaign. US troops in [...]

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Robert Gates and the ‘American Footprint’ in Afghanistan

Saturday, November 14, 2009 5:43 By GSerrano

It is said that there are ‘two poles in Washington: the counterinsurgency experts, or COIN-istas, who believe Afghanistan’s deteriorating security can only be reversed by adding tens of thousands of troops – perhaps as many as 80,000; and those who believe US interests in Afghanistan are few, and the best way to keep it on [...]

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Rouge Afghan Policeman Kills British Soldiers

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 15:19 By Rajeev Saxena

In yet another incident highlighting the sympathetic behavior of the Afghanistan security forces towards Taliban, a rouge Afghan police officer shot and killed five soldiers of the British contingent of the coalition forces currently stationed in Afghanistan. Today’s incident has cast serious doubts over the allegiance of Afghan forces towards the betterment of their country [...]

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War in Afghanistan: A Victory of Lies (most of them Bush’s)

Sunday, November 1, 2009 18:19 By GSerrano

George W. Bush once boasted that the US presence in Afghanistan has ‘given “freedom and democracy” to 25 million Afghans.’ To propel the war in Afghanistan, ‘Bush frightened Americans with a bogus nuclear threat: “Our discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears. . . . We have found diagrams of American nuclear power plants and [...]

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