The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region
Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
President Obama wants Pakistan to fight Afghan Taliban elements on its soil, but Islamabad's priority is those who challenge its own authority. Besides, the Afghan Taliban gives Pakistan leverage in shaping Afghanistan's future
CNN (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The war in Afghanistan is winnable, and corruption will be fought, Interior Minister Hanif Atmar told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Thursday, as President Hamid Karzai was being sworn in for a second five-year term in Kabul.
USA Today (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The U.S. military says the vast majority of the 700 detainees at its biggest prison in Afghanistan could eventually be released ...
Undhimmi (Free subscription) | yesterday
It has long been suspected that Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence Directorate (ISI) is in bed with the Taliban – this latest report shows that the spooks are assisting Top Turban Mullah Omar in moving around the country to escape American UAVs: Fearing that Taliban supremo Mullah Omar might be targetted by US drones, Pakistan’s ISI has helped him [...]
Signaleer (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
"ISI has long supported Islamic terrorists, and now Pakistan appears determined to root out 'Taliban spies' in the ISI. The problem is that these Islamic radicals have been operating openly in the ISI for three decades, and were put there by the government in the late 1970s, when it was decided that Islamic conservatism was the solution for Pakistan's problems (corruption and religious/ethnic...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
So now, `Ammar Al-Hakim joins Iyad `Allawi (former Saddam's henchman, car bomber, embezzler-in-Yemen, puppet prime minister) in calling for the return of the Ba`th to political participation . (thanks Hassan)
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The insurgency in Afghanistan will continue to gather momentum as long as Afghans believe the insurgents have more compelling answers than Western powers or the government of President Hamid Karzai. The Taliban's fusion of religion, state and army presents a compelling case that foreigners will be expelled, Pashtun pre- eminence will be maintained, and that there will be a return to a golden age under...
Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pakistan Foreign Office has denied reports regarding the presence of Taliban supreme leaders Mullah Omar in Pakistan.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Senior diplomat formerly stationed in Kabul claims troops 'handed over for severe torture a lot of innocent people' The Canadian government was fending off calls for a public inquiry on torture today after allegations from one of its senior diplomats that Canada was complicit in the torture of Afghan detainees. Richard Colvin, who was second in command at Canada's Kabul embassy in 2006 and 2007, said...
All Politics Is Local (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Conservative Party of Canada is showing its true stripes this week. On two equally disgusting fronts. First, the Tories are defaming whistle blower Richard Colvin because he implicated that government employees in both Defense and Foreign Affairs tried to bury the torture of Afghan detainees in Kandahar's prisons. Second, the Tories are continuing their relentless pursuit of the Jewish vote by...
Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has helped Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar to flee from the border town of Quetta to the port city of Karachi, fearing that US drones might
Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
/Washington, Nov 20 (IANS) Pakistan has rejected a US newspaper report claiming that the one-eyed Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar is in Karachi, terming it false and baseless.
War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
Worst Place For The World's Children: Afghanistan -- Foreign Policy Where is the worst place for children to be born in 2009, especially girls? Surprise! Afghanistan. Today, UNICEF published a special report titled State of the World's Children ; Daniel Toole, UNICEF regional director for South Asia, told a news briefing in Geneva earlier today: Afghanistan today is without a doubt the most dangerous...
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Passing .. I saw a Buncha Boobs Unplugged “ FBI hides Dillinger as the FBI moves in Which is precisely what Pakistan/s ISI is said to have done with Taliban Omar. Hooray for us and f**k you:! Senate Health Bill Will Pay Doctors Less for Medicaid Services, But Won't Let Docs Reduce Services Contrary to media hype, Sarah Palin is very unpopular Media Matter tells us why and wonders why she's...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
KABUL — A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 16 people, including two children and a policeman, and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, officials said. Provincial Gov. Rohul Amin said the blast occurred about 55 yards (50 meters) from his compound in a crowded square in Farah. Afghan police shouted "Stop! Stop!" at the motorcyclist...
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eprnetwork | 11/02/2009
The numbers of individuals entering inpatient drug rehab for heroin and opiate addiction continues to increase. In Afghanistan and Pakistan the opium (heroin) trade is tightly controlled by al Qaeda and the Taliban, and despite the war the efforts, the production of heroin and opium has dramatically increased - heroin is still dirt-cheap and readily purchased on the streets of Kabul and sold in short
rtomas80 | 09/04/2009
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan – A U.S. jet dropped 500-pound bombs on two tanker trucks hijacked by the Taliban before dawn Friday, triggering a huge explosion that Afghan officials said killed more than 70 people, including insurgents and some civilians who had swarmed around the vehicles to siphon off fuel. Germany, whose troops called in the strike, said it feared the hijackers would use the trucks to carry
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