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Admiral: Anti-drug effort in Afghanistan a failure
Agence France-Presse 05/21/09 N ATO has failed to stem the vast opium trade in Afghanistan that helps finance Taliban insurgents despite an eight-year effort, the top US military officer said on Thursday.... ...
US Troop Surge in Afghanistan "Could Push Taliban Into Pakistan"
Matthew Weaver and Agencies, The Guardian UK: "The buildup of US troops in Afghanistan could force more Taliban fighters into neighbouring Pakistan, the chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff conceded... ...
Judge rejects Obama view on detaining Al Qaeda supporters
In a 22-page decision issued Tuesday evening, U.S. District Court Judge John Bates ruled that members in Al Qaeda or the Taliban could be detained, but that mere support for Al Qaeda activities is not... ...
The World Doesn't Have a Pakistan Nukes Problem, It Has a David Albright Problem
By Peter Lee Washington, apparently believing that it doesn't have enough on its plate with al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistan Taliban, is suddenly awash with dramatic plans to add a self-created... ...
U.S. Stirs a Hornet's Nest in Pakistan
By ERIC MARGOLIS If this continues, at some point patriotic Pakistani soldiers may rebel and shoot the corrupt generals and politicians on Washington's payroll. Equally ominous, a poor people's uprising... ...
Afghan Civilian Deaths: Who Is to Blame?
Laura King, The Los Angeles Times: "Local people are adamant that bombardment caused the civilian deaths; the U.S. military asserts that at least some were inflicted by the Taliban, and it sharply disputes... ...
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Where Empires Go to Die
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III, Truthout: "During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Obama promised to immediately withdraw troops from Iraq in order to bolster the forces in Afghanistan in order to defeat... ...
Cheney lives on
Salon by Joan Walsh 05/14/09 I really would like to laugh at Dick Cheney’s ‘Out of the Bunker!’ tour. This isn’t the Cheney Americans have come to know and hate. Remember when he wouldn’t talk to us?... ...
List of 140 Afghan Killed In US Attack Includes 93 Children
By Reuters The list, obtained by Reuters, bears the endorsement of seven senior provincial and central government officials, including an Afghan two-star general who headed a task force dispatched by... ...
US foreign policy caused the Taliban problem
Future of Freedom Foundation by Jacob G. Hornberger 05/08/09 U.S. officials are now concerned not only with a Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan but also a Taliban takeover in Pakistan. These problems,... ...