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13 Dec 2010

Afghan Bombs Kill, Wound 3,800 Troops in 2010

How dangerous have the Taliban’s crude, cheap homemade bombs become? One awful measure came Sunday, when they drove a van full of explosives into a military base in southern Afghanistan, killing six U.S. soldiers. Another is this: The jury-rigged bombs have killed and wounded about a thousand more allied troops this year than in 2009. Later [...]
How dangerous have the Taliban’s crude, cheap homemade bombs become? One awful measure came Sunday, when they drove a...
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16 Dec 2010

Yearly Price Tab for Afghan Forces: $6 Billion, Indefinitely

Want a good measurement of “NATO’s enduring commitment” to Afghanistan even after combat forces depart? The Afghan soldiers and cops NATO trains to secure the country are going to need $6 billion from international donors every year to keep operating. Right now, the plan is to build up a force of 305,000 soldiers and police by [...]
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11 Apr 2011

Commandos Hold Afghan Detainees in Secret Jails

Under President Obama, the CIA is barred from holding terrorism detainees in secret prisons. That's the Joint Special Operations Command's job now. The Associated Press' star intelligence reporter, Kimberly Dozier, has a mammoth piece out describing a constellation of 20 detention centers run by the elite unit in Afghanistan. JSOC can keep an insurgent inside them for up to nine weeks for interrogation without either turning him over to the main U.S. detention facility in Afghanistan or obtaining a waiver from either the defense secretary or the president himself to hold him longer, in the hopes of learning Taliban secrets.
Under President Obama, the CIA is barred from holding terrorism detainees in secret prisons. That's the Joint Special...
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23 Jun 2011

Dissonance: Obama Wants Peace Talks And Forever War in Afghanistan

President Obama firmly committed the U.S. to peace talks with the Taliban in Wednesday night’s big Afghanistan speech. His administration, meanwhile, is rowing in the opposite direction: negotiating deals with Hamid Karzai’s government that would keep drones and commandos in Afghanistan forever and ever. See if you can spot the tension there. For the first time, [...]
President Obama firmly committed the U.S. to peace talks with the Taliban in Wednesday night’s big Afghanistan speech....
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1 Sep 2011

Mullah Omar Says The Taliban Are Ready To Talk

For years, the Taliban s position about negotiating an end to the decade-long war with Hamid Karzai s government or the United States has been straightforward: U.S. troops have to leave Afghanistan first. While analysts have long speculated that the Taliban isn t really as rigid behind closed doors, its leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, now leaves no doubt. The Taliban is already negotiating with the U.S., Omar confirmed.
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16 Dec 2010

Obama Never Mind Afghanistan, It’s All About The Drones

One year and 30,000 new troops later, Afghanistan is peripheral to the Afghanistan war. According to the Obama administration s review of its strategy, it s official: this a U.S. drone war in Pakistan with a big, big U.S. troop component next door.
One year and 30,000 new troops later, Afghanistan is peripheral to the Afghanistan war. According to the Obama...
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24 Jul 2011

Report Finds Vast Waste in U.S. War Contracts

The U.S. has wasted or misspent $34 billion contracting for services in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a draft report by a bipartisan congressional panel, the most comprehensive effort so far to tally the overall cost of a decade of battlefield contracting in America's two big wars.
The U.S. has wasted or misspent $34 billion contracting for services in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a draft...
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3 Mar 2010

Mullahs help promote birth control in Afghanistan

Some mullahs in Afghanistan are distributing condoms. Others are quoting the Quran to encourage longer breaks between births. Health experts say contraception is starting to catch on in a country with the world's second highest maternal death rate.
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7 Mar 2010

Karzai gets an earful in town seized from Taliban

MARJAH, Afghanistan Elders in a former Taliban stronghold berated and challenged Afghanistan's president Sunday, delivering a litany of complaints about government corruption and NATO's military operations on the Afghan leader's first visit to Marjah.
MARJAH, Afghanistan Elders in a former Taliban stronghold berated and challenged Afghanistan's president Sunday,...
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