Pen and Sword (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
President Barack Obama is about to make the biggest mistake of 21 st century by sending 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan. We currently have 68,000 troops in Afghanistan. NATO countries supply an additional 42,000. There are maybe 100 al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and maybe 300 in Pakistan. Some estimates say al-Qaeda is down to fewer than a dozen core fighters. And we already have 110,000 mechanized, highly...
Campaign For Liberty Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Phil Giraldi In a press conference this afternoon President Obama told visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that the US will "finish the job" in Afghanistan and wipe out every last known terrorist. "Finish the job" is an expressionthat politicians use a lot when they don't really have anything substantive to say. It is generally believed that Obama will approve a 34,000...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Attorney general's office says special court being set up to hear cases against three current and 12 former ministers Fifteen current and former Afghan ministers are under investigation over allegations of corruption that have plagued the government of President Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's attorney general's office said today. In his inaugural address last week for his second term as president, Karzai...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fifteen current and former Afghan ministers are under investigation over allegations of corruption that have plagued the government of President Hamid Karzai, the attorney general's office said Tuesday.
Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fifteen current and former Afghan ministers are under investigation over allegations of corruption that have plagued the government of President Hamid Karzai, the attorney general's office said
Cuba Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
How can the current executive branch leadership of the United Sates continue to enforce the Cuba embargo/blockade? Are they myopic or just plain stupid? How can they arrogantly ignore the wishes of 187 civilized countries at the United Nations? For 18 years in a row the General Assembly has condemned, by big margins, the genocidal embargo/blockade which the imperialists continue to enforce against...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fifteen current and former Afghan ministers are under investigation over allegations of corruption that have plagued the government of President Hamid Karzai, the attorney general's office said Tuesday.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Afghan attorney general's office says 15 current and former Afghan ministers are under investigation for allegations of corruption that have plagued the government of President Hamid Karzai.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kabul - The new cabinet for President Hamid Karzai, who was re-elected in a poll marred by massive fraud, is expected to be announced in a near future, his spokesman said Tuesday. Karzai, who was sworn in for a second five-year term on Thursday, ha...
Alternate Brain (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Sometimes, I can roll through my dead-tree copy of Time in five minutes. Occasionally, it takes two hours. Sometimes there's stuff good enough to pass on to you. I like to get the actual magazine probably because I'm old-fashioned enough to enjoy reading stuff that's not on a screen. Also, I get access to their website. I'm not sure if non-subscribers get the same access to that that I do. Money saving...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
KABUL (Reuters) - Two Afghan cabinet ministers are being investigated under suspicion of embezzlement, a deputy attorney general said on Monday, at a time when President Hamid Karzai faces tough Western pressure to clean up his government.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Gordon Brown won headlines for announcing a timetable that will probably not get British troops out any faster The great irony of Gordon Brown's announcement last week of a plan to hand over Afghan territory to local control, according to his Nato colleagues, is that British troops are likely to be among the last to benefit from it. At an informal meeting of Nato officials and analysts in the eastern...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Afghan government plans to boost army and police numbers massively have been greeted with scepticism by diplomats and military experts who say the figures are too ambitious. Afghanistan lacks the capacity to recruit and train men in large enough numbers, they said, despite a pledge by President Hamid Karzai to take over the nation's security from foreign troops by the end of his new five-year term....
Canadian Cynic (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Once upon a time, I was told that having a publicly pessimistic and defeatist attitude was really, really, really bad for our troops. Uh oh : One year to turn Afghanistan around, Hillier says HALIFAX–Western forces have just over a year to turn around the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, or the decade-long military effort could be lost, Canada's former top soldier says... "We've got...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Taliban-led insurgents marked the first days of President Hamid Karzai's second term with a series of suicide strikes and a rocket attack on a Kabul hotel.
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