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$547 Million Can't Paper Over Failure of afghanistan War12:53 AM on 09/03/2010 Alternet Gates Says afghans Should Lead Corruption Fight
The defense secretary said the U.S. will still work to prevent millions of American dollars flowing into the nation from underwriting bribery and graft. Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged to work against corruption, which is undermining trust in his government.
03:55 PM on 09/03/2010 NPR News - Politics Can Lessons Learned In Iraq Work In afghanistan?
As the combat mission ends in Iraq, 30,000 additional troops are heading to Afghanistan. Comparisons between the two wars are inevitable. Gen. David Petraeus, who commanded U.S. forces in Iraq, brings to Afghanistan many familiar military faces and the strategy of creating local forces to take control of security at the grass-roots level.
08:36 AM on 09/02/2010 NPR News - Politics What Obama Didn't Say About afghanistan
| My Fellow Americans... so much for Iraq. Turning now to Afghanistan...
03:19 PM on 09/01/2010 Infowars Turning the page & #8211; to afghanistan
Obama now must focus on the Afghanistan war which has experienced a summer of military setbacks.
04:33 AM on 09/01/2010 Politico Top Stories afghanistan bomb attacks kill twenty-one US soldiers in 48 hours
| Deaths have risen consistently each year since 2001. Afghan police and civilians have suffered far higher casualties.
03:02 PM on 08/31/2010 Infowars 4 American Troops Killed By Bomb In afghanistan
A roadside bomb attack killed four U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the latest deaths in a particularly bloody spell that has left 18 service members dead since Saturday.
05:32 AM on 08/31/2010 NPR News - Politics Military Subcontractors Bribing U.S. Personnel With Prostitutes? The Shady World of War Contracting in afghanistan and Iraq
Taxpayer cash is flowing to subcontractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, who engage in shady, illegal practices with few repercussions.
09:00 AM on 08/31/2010 Alternet Seven US soldiers killed in afghan bomb attacks
Seven US troops were killed in two Taliban-style bomb attacks Monday in southern Afghanistan, the area hardest hit by the insurgency nearing the end of its ninth and most deadly year, NATO told AFP. One attack killed five soldiers, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement. With the latest deaths, 478 foreign [...]
03:13 PM on 08/30/2010 Raw Story 7 U.S. Troops Killed By Bomb Attacks In afghanistan
NATO provided no details of the attacks, but eyewitnesses said an armored U.S. Army Humvee hit a roadside bomb in the southern city of Kandahar. The deaths bring to 14 the number of U.S. troops killed in action in eastern and southern Afghanistan over the past three days.
10:48 AM on 08/30/2010 NPR News - Politics The Secret Killers: Covert Assassins Charged With Hunting Down and Killing afghans
Capture/kill teams leave a trail of dead civilian bodies and recrimination in their wake, undermining any goodwill created by U.S. reconstruction projects.
12:00 PM on 08/30/2010 Alternet Paying For Friends In afghanistan Doesn't Buy Loyalty
Gen. David Petraeus makes fighting corruption a fundamental part of his strategy to turn Afghanistan around. But while he warns his troops about striking financial deals with potentially unreliable allies, the CIA is prosecuting its part of this war by doing exactly that.
12:00 AM on 08/30/2010 NPR News - Politics Seven US troops, politician killed in afghan attacks
KABUL ? Seven US soldiers and an Afghan man running for the nation's parliament have been killed in a wave of attacks this weekend in some of Afghanistan's most volatile regions, authorities said Sunday. About eight civilians and 15 militants were also killed in separate incidents linked to Taliban and counter-insurgency operations across the troubled [...]
01:56 PM on 08/29/2010 Raw Story 7 U.S. Troops Killed In Latest afghanistan Fighting
Seven U.S. troops have died in weekend attacks in Afghanistan's embattled southern and eastern regions, while officials found the bodies Sunday of five kidnapped campaign workers for a female candidate in the western province of Herat.
08:09 AM on 08/29/2010 NPR News - Politics Two Bases In afghanistan Attacked By Insurgents
Insurgents launched pre-dawn attacks Saturday on a major NATO base in eastern Afghanistan and a nearby camp where seven CIA employees were killed last year in a suicide bombing. NATO said there were no coalition casualties and the attacks were repelled.
07:41 AM on 08/28/2010 NPR News - Politics Report: Aide to afghan president Karzai on CIA payroll
An aide to Afghan President Hamid Karzai who is under investigation for corruption is on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. Citing unnamed Afghan and US officials, the newspaper said Mohammed Zia Salehi, the chief of administration for Afghanistan's National Security Council, had been receiving money from [...]
01:01 AM on 08/27/2010 Raw Story afghan President Karzai questions US withdrawal deadline
President Hamid Karzai on Thursday criticized the U.S. plan to begin withdrawing troops starting next July and said the war on terror cannot succeed as long as the Taliban and their allies maintain sanctuaries in Pakistan. Karzai's statements were made during a meeting with visiting U.S. congressmen and come at a time when the Obama [...]
01:19 AM on 08/27/2010 Raw Story Bringing Freedom and Prosperity to afghanistan
The Obama administration is seeking to rechristen the Afghan debacle it inherited from the Bush administration. Obama's efforts to legitimize the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan simply ignore the previous record of American actions in that nation. But the past debacles ensure the failure of Obama's ramped-up interventions.
08:42 AM on 08/26/2010 Prison Planet afghans to Obama: Great job on those timelines, buddy
Price signals.
06:15 PM on 08/26/2010 Hot Air Army: Soldiers formed kill team' to randomly execute afghans
Five soldiers accused of killing civilians in Afghanistan are now facing additional charges of conspiracy to commit premeditated murder ? a plot that allegedly began when one soldier discussed how easy it would be to "toss a grenade" at Afghan civilians, The Seattle Times reported Wednesday. The five soldiers were charged with murder in June [...]
11:19 PM on 08/26/2010 Raw Story Is Mosque Hysteria Being Ginned Up to Bolster Support for the Disastrous Wars in afghanistan and Iraq?
The right-wing mobilization at the core of the Islamic center controversy is about rebuilding political support for the 'global war on terror.'
12:00 AM on 08/26/2010 Alternet 90,000 secret US military documents leaked on web, documenting NATO war crimes in afghanistan and other classified information
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04:52 AM on 08/25/2010 The Insider America's top Marine challenges Obama's afghan pullout deadline
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Gen. James Conway challenged President Obama's commitment to begin withdrawing soldiers from Afghanistan in July, 2011, saying his deadline gives the Taliban "sustenance" and encourages them to simply outlast the Americans. "In some ways, we think right now it?s probably giving our enemy sustenance," he said, according to published reports. [...]
09:48 PM on 08/25/2010 Raw Story Marine general: Obama's afghan pullout deadline helps the Taliban
President Barack Obama's July 2011 date to start withdrawing troops from Afghanistan has given a morale boost to Taliban insurgents, who believe they can wait out NATO forces, the top U.S. Marine said on Tuesday. But retiring General James Conway said he believed Marines would not be in a position to withdraw from the fight [...]
08:16 PM on 08/25/2010 Raw Story Cartoonist Matt Bors on Islamic Center Nonsense: It's Nice to be in a Tolerant Country Like afghanistan'06:57 PM on 08/25/2010 Alternet Pentagon official skeptical of afghan timeline
Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Conway predicted today that significant number of U.S. Marines and combat forces will be in Afghanistan "hammering" the enemy well past the July 2011 deadline to begin withdrawal of American forces.
01:38 PM on 08/24/2010 MSNBC Politics Attrition, Illiteracy Big Challenges in afghan Security Growth
From Luis Martinez: Two weeks ago, NATO officials in Afghanistan were proudly noting how the goal of reaching 134,000 soldiers in the Afghan Army had been reached three months ahead of schedule. Today the commander of the NATO training mission...
08:28 PM on 08/24/2010 ABC Politics Biden: Iraq, afghanistan on track
"We are beginning a transition," he says.
02:43 PM on 08/24/2010 Politico Top Stories U.S. to spend $100 million on afghan bases
| The Pentagon says it plans to spend $100 million on air base expansions in Afghanistan with construction efforts continuing into at least 2011.
01:12 PM on 08/23/2010 Infowars As public sours on war, GOP senator backs afghan pullout deadline
One influential Republican senator has changed his mind on President Barack Obama's plan to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in the summer of 2011. After a recent trip to the region, Sen. Lindsey Graham returned to say that he believes some troops could be removed in July 2011. "After this trip, I think we can [...]
10:53 PM on 08/23/2010 Raw Story Reporter's Notebook: Waiting Around In afghanistan
Guest host Rachel Martin returned to Afghanistan last week for the first time since 2006. What definitely hasn't changed, she says, is how hard it is to get around the country.
08:00 AM on 08/22/2010 NPR News - Politics Years After Taliban, afghan Women Fare A Little Better
Since the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, the situation for women there has improved marginally. Repression continues, especially in the rural areas.
08:00 AM on 08/22/2010 NPR News - Politics The US Has Lost in afghanistan -- We Have to Come to Grips with What That Means
There never was a goal set by NATO and Afghanistan that was achievable; because their blood and capital are finite.
12:00 PM on 08/21/2010 Alternet Brutality Against Women Stirs Fear In afghanistan
In one recent case, an Afghan widow suspected of adultery was tortured and shot. In another, a woman seeking to flee an abusive marriage had her nose cut off. Activists say the U.S.-supported government of Afghanistan has been passive on issues of human rights as it is eager to negotiate peace with the resurgent Taliban.
03:51 PM on 08/21/2010 NPR News - Politics Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 oppose war in afghanistan
Opposition to Afghan war grows while many welcome end to US combat role in Iraq A majority of Americans see no end in sight in Afghanistan, and nearly six in 10 oppose the nine-year-old war as President Barack Obama sends tens of thousands more troops to the fight, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. [...]
01:55 PM on 08/20/2010 Raw Story How the Pakistan Floods Could Change the War in afghanistan
The human suffering of millions in Pakistan's floods may have just begun if the country destablizes -- meaning, the U.S. could be there for a very long time.
12:00 AM on 08/20/2010 Alternet Military Deaths in afghanistan under Obama Top Those under Bush
| The latest casualty figures show 577 American soldiers have died in the war from January 20, 2009, the date of Obama?s inauguration, until now.
06:22 PM on 08/20/2010 Infowars afghan ban of security firms irks US
US has made and indirect threat that a ban on mainly Western private security firms in Afghanistan can adversely affect development and aid projects in the country.
09:58 AM on 08/19/2010 Prison Planet Why Gen. Petraeus Is Going to Be the Last Person to Recognize That afghanistan Is Totally Lost
When Obama asks General Petraeus how things are going in Afghanistan, he responds, "we are making solid progress, Mr.President."
10:00 AM on 08/18/2010 Alternet Poll: Opposition to Iraq, afghanistan wars reach all time high
| A majority believe that the U.S. will never achieve its goals in Iraq no matter how long troops remain there.
05:51 PM on 08/18/2010 Infowars
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