The Rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan: Mass Mobilization, Civil War, and the Future of the Region
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Islamabad - Four Pakistani soldiers were killed in a Taliban rocket attack on their camp in troubled north-western borderlands, while forces killed six militants in the retaliatory fire, officials said on Saturday. The militants targeted army with ar...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | yesterday
Canada is at war. It may seem hard to believe at times, given our remoteness from the conflict and the distinct lack of impact on most Canadians’ daily lives. But when our soldiers in Afghanistan are not helping provide schools, health clinics and training to the Afghan army, they are helping defend Afghan population centers against a predatory and nihilistic enemy. And when that thuggish enemy,...
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 [...]
Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Taliban, is living in Karachi with the help of Pakistan's intelligence service, The Washington Times said Friday.
Times of India (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Fearing that Mullah Omar might be targetted by US drones, Pakistan's ISI has helped him to flee from the border town of Quetta to the mega port city of Karachi, the US media reported.
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)
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fiend, er, Friend and Ally Update. "EXCLUSIVE: Taliban chief hides in Pakistan," by Eli Lake, Sara A. Carter, and Barbara Slavin for the Washington Times , November 20 Mullah Mohammed Omar, the one-eyed leader of the Afghan Taliban, has fled a Pakistani city on the border with Afghanistan and found refuge from potential U.S. attacks in the teeming Pakistani port city of Karachi with the assistance...
Eye On The World (Free subscription) | yesterday
( Pakistan ) The United States has come perilously close to calling Pakistan a terrorist state by alleging that the country’s spy agency ISI recently spirited Taliban leader Mullah Omar to Karachi to save him from American drone attacks in Quetta. In the most direct charge of its kind, current and former US intelligence officers are saying on background that the one-eyed, illiterate leader of...
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | yesterday
Related: Gallup and Rasmussen polls have Obama approval rating below 50%. Anyone with a lick of common sense could have seen that end result. Barack Obama finally had to admit this week that he would not close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by his self-imposed deadline of January 2010 — and would not set a new deadline, either. What happened? The AP investigated — and discovered...
Freddie P (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's a message to all of the bleeding heart Liberals who are thoroughly enjoying the bullshit focus that's been placed upon the Harper government this week. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. Right off the top lets establish this, Taliban forces in Afghanistan long ago adopted a tactic of falsely accusing Coalition troops of mistreating detainees so this is nothing new. Other countries like Australia...
THE TENSION (Free subscription) | yesterday
D ispatches from the Front: KABUL, Nov. 20, 2009 -- Afghan and international forces in Afghanistan killed an enemy militant and detained several terrorism suspects today, military officials reported. A combined Afghan-international security force killed an enemy militant in Takhar province while pursuing a facilitator for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan terrorist organization who is responsible...
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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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