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Quran Protests Spread to Turbulent Afghan East
By not in system - AOL NewsJALALABAD, Afghanistan - Demonstrators battled police in southern Afghanistan's main city on Sunday and took to the streets in the turbulent east for the first time as Western pleas failed to halt a third day of rage over a Florida pastor's burning of the Quran. An officer was shot dead in a second day of clashes in the city of Kandahar, said provincial health director Qayum Pokhla. Two officers and 18 civilians were wounded, he said. In Jalalabad, the largest city in the east, hundreds of people blocked the main highway for three hours, shouting for U.S. troops to leave, burning an effigy ...
Afghanistan's President Blasts US Troops for Gruesome Afghan Deaths
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's president says U.S. soldiers charged with murder in the deaths last year of three unarmed Afghans had killed them for entertainment, after taking drugs. Hamid Karzai condemned the actions of five soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade. The troops have been charged in the United States with murder and conspiracy in the slaying of three men in southern Afghanistan. The remarks on Wednesday were Karzai's first public comments on the issue that came to light after a series of graphic photos showing the soldiers from an Olympia, Washington-based platoon, posing ...
Obama: Here's Your Change, Sir
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Media Debates Impact of US Effort in Afghanistan [VIDEO]
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Gates Sees War Gains -- But Can Afghans Hold Them?
By not in system - AOL NewsCOMBAT OUTPOST SABIT QADAM, Afghanistan -- The Taliban are reeling. U.S. and Afghan troops are clicking. The war is going really well. That's what Pentagon chief Robert Gates heard in two days with troops and commanders. Much less clear: the hoped-for advances in the Afghan government's ability to provide basic services and extend its authority beyond Kabul, just months before the American troop drawdown begins. Gates visited some of the most hotly contested parts of the country, where the effects of President Barack Obama's 30,000-troop surge have been most keenly felt, as the Obama ...
Report: Petraeus May Leave Afghan Campaign by End of Year
By not in system - AOL NewsThe Times of London reports that "General David Petraeus, the most celebrated American soldier of his generation, is to leave his post as commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan." ...
Counterinsurgency Strategy Not Working in Afghanistan, Critics Say
By David Wood - Politics DailyThe counterinsurgency strategy the United States has relied on to win the Afghan war is producing disappointing progress at best and, at worst, is wasting billions of dollars and prolonging the nine-year war, according to a wide range of informed critics. Experts on Afghanistan and on counterinsurgency, among them active-duty and retired military officers, analysts and academics, are pushing to have the U.S. mission in Afghanistan significantly narrowed in scope. Their message, in brief: Drop the hearts 'n' minds stuff. Go kill the enemy. It's increasingly clear to the critics, at least, ...
Afghan Bathhouse Attacked in Deadly Bombing
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsA suicide bomber attacked a crowded bathhouse in southern Afghanistan today, killing at least 17 people, including a police commander, and wounding 23 as they cleansed themselves for Friday prayers. Local men were washing ahead of midday Friday prayers when the blast ripped through the building in the heart of Spin Boldak, a town near the Pakistani border. Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, the Taliban's spokesman in the south, told The Associated Press the target of the attack was the deputy commander of border patrol police in Kandahar province. Shah Khalid, AP Afghans react after the death of ...
Gates Shifts Military Spending: 'Not Every Defense Dollar is Sacred'
By David Wood - Politics DailyA draining war and record-high defense spending financed by borrowing are driving yet another effort to control the military budget. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, citing a "grim financial outlook'' but also the "growing peril of the future,'' Thursday announced minor shifts within the defense budget of about $178 billion over five years. "Not every defense dollar is sacred,'' he told reporters at the Pentagon. But, he warned, "We shrink from our global responsibilities at our peril,'' and he said under the current Obama administration plan, the defense budget will continue to rise ...
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