The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
KABUL — Bomb attacks and a firefight killed four U.S. service members in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, NATO forces said Monday. Three of the Americans died in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the military force said in a statement. Two of them were killed in a bomb attack and the third in a separate firefight. The military said the fourth U.S. service member died in the east Monday in a bomb...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Barack Obama is expected to announce his long-delayed plans for a troop surge in Afghanistan next week with a promise of between 3,000 and 7,000 extra troops from Nato allies — including Britain, so as to stop this looking like America’s war. An announcement by the US president is anticipated before the meeting of Nato defence ministers in Brussels on December 3. American officials suggest...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
After its Parliamentary Assembly's meeting in Edinburgh, NATO seems to have moved further closer to a final decision on troops surge in Afghanistan. Though no formal statement was issued at the end of the meeting, the speeches of NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband manifested what is on the mind of the alliance leaders. The five-day gathering, attended...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan would lead to a strengthening of al-Qaeda and cause instability to spread through the region, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday in the Hungarian capital.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Budapest - A NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan would lead to a strengthening of al-Qaeda and cause instability to spread through the region, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Thursday in the Hungarian capital. Rasmussen spoke of the...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Brussels - Hamid Karzai must rid his new administration of rampant corruption, NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday as he hailed the Afghan president's second term as an historic event. On behalf of NATO, I congratulate President Karzai ...
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
UPDATED ON:Wednesday, November 18, 2009 00:30 Mecca time, 21:30 GMT Courtesy Of Al Jazeera Britain's foreign secretary has suggested that senior Taliban figures be given positions in the Afghan government to bring an end to the violence in the country. At a meeting of Nato's parliamentary assembly in Edinburgh, Scotland on Tuesday, David Miliband said that history suggested many Taliban members could...
Once Upon a Time in the West (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
In a move that will no doubt further antagonize the Kremlin, the “former” communist state of Poland and the “former” Soviet republic of Lithuania are advocating the inclusion of Ukraine, another “former” Soviet republic, in a tri-national peacekeeping brigade to operate under the command of the United Nations, the European Union, or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization....
The Torch (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Further to 3) at this post a month ago, it's now official : Slovakia to add 250 NATO troops to Afghan mission Slovakia pledged about 250 extra soldiers Tuesday to the NATO-led force in Afghanistan, the first of what British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said would be a series of international reinforcements. The central European country will double the size of its 246-strong contingent in Afghanistan,...
Nasir Khan blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
1 of 4 Full Size By Adrian Croft, Reuters , Nov 17, 2009 EDINBURGH (Reuters) – NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Tuesday he was confident the alliance would agree to increase substantially the number of troops battling Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama is weighing several options for boosting U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan as a debate rages in his administration...
Black Listed News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Anders Fogh Rasmussen issued his warning just a day after Gordon Brown gave his clearest signal yet that he wants to begin the process of ending Britain’s Afghan mission within months.
CommonDreams.org Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
by Julian Borger, Diplomatic editor Nato and its allies will order "substantially more forces" into battle in Afghanistan over the next few weeks, the alliance's secretary general said today. Speaking in Edinburgh at a Nato parliamentary assembly meeting, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said: "In a few weeks, I expect we will decide, in Nato, on the approach, and troop levels needed, to take...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Anders Fogh Rasmussen says withdrawing from Afghanistan too quickly would allow alQaeda to return and launch a "global jihad" against the West.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Tuesday the alliance's mission in Afghanistan would soon gain momentum, in remarks seeking to allay doubts about the operation.
Department of Defense (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has predicted the alliance's future mission in Afghanistan will entail a counterinsurgency approach with "substantially more troops."
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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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