The Pakistanis have closed the main roads down into the Afghan theater that ISAF has been using to resupply after a NATO strike killed …
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“WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director Leon Panetta said Sunday that al-Qaida is probably at its weakest since the Sept. 11 attacks because of U.S.-led strikes, …
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Taliban Executes 7-Year-Old Boy No one, apparently, is immune from the Taliban’s extremism: CNN reports that persons believed to be Taliban militants executed on Tuesday …
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“The Taliban attacked a U.S.-run airfield in the predawn hours Wednesday, wounding seven U.S. servicemen, in the second attack in two days against coalition forces. …
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I culled together some recent news items on the Internet regarding the progress or lack of it in the Afghan conflict. It’s the media’s …
Is There Progress In Afghanistan? Read More »
Apparently for killing this guy in one of Obama’s drone raids. Hmmmm
“A Pentagon report presented a sobering new assessment Wednesday of the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan, saying that its abilities are expanding and its operations are …
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“We are currently moving to seize our objective. We have been in contact for five hours from the southwest, north and east and we are …
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“JALALABAD, Afghanistan — The leaders of one of the largest Pashtun tribes in a Taliban stronghold said Wednesday that they had agreed to support the …
Pashtun Tribe Vows To Fight Taliban – If We Pay Them For It. Read More »
“The same group that was responsible for the Christmas Day plane bomber is training women, who may be “non Arab” in appearance and traveling on …
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“MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — The insurgents’ tactics are familiar. Night letters warn village elders to cooperate or face death. Religious “taxes” must be paid, and fiery …
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“The only U.S. official known to have resigned in protest over the war in Afghanistan on Monday said “a lot” of people in the Obama …
The army expected the South Waziristan operation to last about two months, a period that stretches into the winter season there, a Pakistani official who has been briefed by the military said.
