Posts Tagged ‘Afghan-Taleban’
The Baloch Reality
The News | By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi | 23 June 2010 Balochistan, Mea Culpa! We are to blame. We are so sorry. We agree with your every complaint. We intend to make amends. Please take note of our awards, packages, amendments and initiatives. Won't you at least be appreciative and put your faith in our good intentions? Can't you see, if not [...]
The Rolling Stone Story that Got Gen. McChrystal Sacked
UPDATE: Obama kills two birds with one stone! 13:20 EST: McChrystal sacked, Petraeus to take over Had Gen. Colin Powell said of Bush what McChrystal said of Obama, would it have been called just "poor judgment"? McChrystal is no fool; he saw the Rolling Stone story in draft and cleared it for publication. Having failed in Marjah and [...]
German Officials: Things will not end well in Afghanistan; Taliban do not threaten the West
Spiegel Online | By Christoph Schwennicke | 18 June 2010 Germany's Mission in Afghanistan: Ex-Defense Officials Skeptical of Success The belief that things will end well in Afghanistan is dwindling in Germany. An increasing number of security experts recommend an orderly withdrawal and even those who were involved in sending the [...]
Americans Testing Microwave Weapon to Roast the Taleban
Danger Room | By Noah Schachtman | 19 June 2010 U.S. Testing Pain Ray in Afghanistan (Updated Again) The U.S. mission in Afghanistan centers around swaying locals to its side. And there’s no better persuasion tool than an invisible pain ray that makes people feel like they’re on fire. OK, OK. Maybe that isn’t precisely the logic [...]
U.K. Soldiers Die as U.S. Troops Fight from Afar
Guardian | By Mark Townsend | 20 June 2010 Death rate of UK soldiers in Afghanistan 'four times higher' than US Rate is also twice that which qualifies as 'major conflict', according to analysis by Medical Research Council The rate at which British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan is almost four times that of their US counterparts, [...]
Perspectives on the Violence in Kyrgyzstan
Jump to: Kyrgyz 'leader' visits troubled south (18 June) Kyrgyz conflict an 'immense crisis' (17 June) Kyrgyz violence level 'alarming' (16 June) More evidence indicate Moscow's organization of massacre in Kyrgyzstan (16 June) With the near exclusive monopoly of the Russian media over reporting in Kyrgyzsatan, there are very few [...]
Afghan-Mujahideen Criticise Pakistan and Reject Taleban-ISI Link
Voice of Jihad | 15 June 2010 Response of the Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate in Reaction to the Maligning Report of th A Study Team of the London School of Economics has claimed in a report that the intelligence agency of Pakistan has been supporting the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan militarily and logistically. It has claimed [...]
U.S. Dilemma: Fighting Corruption Strengthens Mujahideen/Taliban
Danger Room | By Noah Shachtman | 13 June 2010 New U.S. Intel Push Risks Taliban ‘Propaganda Bonanza’ Even before they got to Kabul, the current crop of American military commanders worried that their biggest obstacle could turn out to be Afghanistan’s endemic corruption, not its insurgents. So, in some ways, it’s not all that [...]
Afghanistan: Counting the Ways We Were Wrong
CNAS | By Andrew Exum | 16 June 2010 Afghanistan: Graveyard of Assumptions? (Updated) These past few weeks have brought a fresh torrent of bad news from Afghanistan: a governor in a key district assassinated, U.S. and allied operations in flux, Afghan leadership in question. Policy-makers in Washington and allied capitols are [...]
From Vietnam to Afghanistan: Not winning hearts and minds
Washington Post | By Henry Allen | 18 June 2010 We were putting up the tents when Pakistani police pulled up and told us we might get killed if we camped there. Four guys in a British lump of a car, they'd driven out from Peshawar to warn us. No "fees" or "permits" were demanded, though doubtless they worried about the political [...]
