Members of the largest ethnic group in the country are protesting that they have become the main victims of the war.
Unfortunately, if the situation goes on, 10 years later you will fight against maybe one million fundamentalists, people like the Taliban. Because it is clear that when you kill one innocent person among Pashtuns, 10 more Taliban
Source:
http://thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100712/FOREIGN/707119872/1002
A $33 billion war supplemental to fund ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is being held up by House Democrats who want to attach $10 billion for bankrupt states like New York and California that refuse to cut unsustainable education funding in these troubled economic times.
Source:
http://www.dakotavoice.com/2010/06/holding-the-troops-hostage-to-unions/
Questions about the overall leadership of the U.S. effort come at a critical moment for Mr.
Obama's Afghanistan strategy six months into what he said would be an 18-month-long surge, and as the CIA director said fighting there is "harder" than expected.
Source:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/27/lawmakers-say-obama-faces-last-chance-afghanistan/
President Obama removed Gen.
Stanley A. McChrystal from his position as the top commander in Afghanistan on Wednesday and tapped Gen. David H. Petraeus to lead the war effort there, a White House official said.
Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/us/politics/24mcchrystal.html?hp
President Barack Obama's decision to fire Gen.
Stanley A. McChrystal as commander in Afghanistan and replace him with Gen. David Petraeus ... obviously reflects a desire by Obama to find a way out of a deepening policy crisis in Afghanistan.
Source:
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0623/analysis-petraeus-afghan-policy-crisis/
Al-Qaida's American-born spokesman has repeated the terror group's conditions for peace with America, calling on President Barack Obama to withdraw his troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, end support for Israel, stop intervening in the affairs of Muslims and free Muslim prisoners.
Obama's reaction is still unknown. But hmm, might not sound bad to him
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100620/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_al_qaida_spokesman
Today, Rep.
Alan Grayson (D-FL) introduced bipartisan legislation, 'War Is Making You Poor Act' to call attention to a) how much money is being spent to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and b) how budget gimmicks are used to pay for them. Grayson's legislation would slash the $159 billion request for supplemental war funds & give tax breaks
Source:
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/21/grayson-wars-taxes-americans/
President Obama gave a very interesting interview to Australian TV, ranging on issues from Afghanistan to financial reform, from climate change to the future of America.
KERRY OBRIEN: SO WHY ARE YOU SO CONFIDENT THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GET YOUR REGULATORY SYSTEM THROUGH CONGRESS? PRESIDENT OBAMA: Im always confident.
Nicholas Fabian, 32, an Army bomb disposal expert who is reportedly due to be posted to Afghanistan, was held after wife Victoria, also 32, suffered serious leg injuries in the blast in a communal car park in the village of Vigo, near Meopham, Kent, just after 1pm yesterday.
President Obama has offered Haiti the United States' 'full support' after the island nation suffered an epic earthquake.
What he did not mention is America's generosity may come with a hefty price tag to U.S. taxpayers as the deficit mushrooms from the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
British newspaper's defence correspondent killed and one of its photographers severely injured by roadside bomb in Helmand province.
Source:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/10/afghanistan-journalist-rupert-hamer
Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in Afghanistan last month that killed seven CIA employees and contractors and a Jordanian military officer, according to a statement posted on Islamist Web sites.
Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/07/afghanistan.cia.al.qaeda/index.html
Hot on the heels of what President Barack Obama called a potentially disastrous screw-up by the civilian intelligence community, here comes a devastating report on shortcomings of military intelligence in Afghanistan.
Source:
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2010/01/07/american-intelligence-and-fortune-telling/
Airport security is a big deal these days.
But since when has reporting your income been a matter of national security?
Michael Yon is an ex-Green Beret turned war correspondent who's spent much of the past four years covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Source:
http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2010/01/ex-green_beret_and_war_corresp.php
One of five Americans detained in Pakistan said their aim was to go to Afghanistan to wage jihad against Western forces, defending their intention as justified under Islam.
Source:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100104/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan_us_arrests
