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Afghan Officials: 2 Suspects in Custody for UN Attacks
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials say they have in custody at least two former insurgents suspected of involvement in the killing of seven U.N. workers during a riot last week in the northern city over Quran burning in the United States. Lawmaker Mohammad Akbari said on Wednesday that a government team investigating the April 1 attack against the U.N. headquarters in Mazar-i-Sharif has identified three men believed involved in the killing of three U.N. staff members and four Nepalese guards. A chief investigator with the Interior Ministry, Mirza Mohammad Yarmand, claims two of the ...
Obama: Here's Your Change, Sir
By Robert and Donna Trussell - Politics DailyFollow the Trussell cartoons on Twitter at ChaosTheoryPD ...
Pentagon's 'Don't Ask' Survey: Soldiers in Afghanistan Are Just Not That Interested
By David Wood - Politics DailyCombat troops in Afghanistan had less opportunity than those at home to weigh in on the potential repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell'' law on gays and lesbians in the military, Defense Department officials acknowledged. The Pentagon, under pressure to repeal the law from President Barack Obama, Congress and its own top leadership, this summer launched what spokesman Geoff Morrell described as a "scientifically supported'' effort to survey "a large representative sample of our force'' to determine how they felt about allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly. That outreach included ...
Forget the News on the Kabul Conference. Read This Harper's Article Instead.
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(July 20) -- News of Tuesday's Kabul Conference, bringing together delegates from 65 countries, can be met two ways. On the positive side, for the first time, the event actually was held in its namesake city -- an achievement of security and logistics only slightly diminished by the fact that rocket fire diverted a couple of arriving notables to another airport. On the other hand, it's also the ninth such gathering, and overall, very little progress in Afghanistan has been made. President Hamid Karzai's government is highly corrupt; the Taliban (who Washington now want Karzai's government to ...
Afghan War: Break the Kandahar Mafia
By David Wood - Politics DailyInitial maneuvering in the battle for Kandahar has begun and with it the last, best hope for the Afghan war strategy of President Barack Obama and Gen. Stanley McChrystal, his top combat commander. The fighting to be unleashed in Operation Omid ("Hope'' in local Pashtun) is expected to be fierce. But first, there is a difficult political battle to be won, and unless the United States wins it, this summer's combat offensive is doomed to failure, according to a new independent assessment published this week. Kandahar, a sprawling, dusty southern Afghan city of maybe 500,000 people, is being ...
How Real Is Pakistan's New Tack on Taliban?
By Adnan R. Khan - AOL News(Feb. 25) -- Revelations this week that Pakistan has arrested up to half of the resident Afghan Taliban leadership, known as the Quetta Shura, has raised hopes that a reluctant neighbor is finally coming around to supporting the U.S.- led war in Afghanistan. The arrests over the last few weeks -- including the detention of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's second in command -- are being hailed as a new beginning for Pakistan, which has traditionally nurtured Islamic fundamentalists as an integral part of its foreign policy. Mohammad Sajjad, AP Pakistani security officials walk past ...
US, Afghan Troops Attack Taliban Stronghold
By not in system - AOL NewsNEAR MARJAH, Afghanistan (Feb. 13) - Helicopter-borne U.S. Marines and Afghan troops swooped down on the Taliban-held town of Marjah before dawn on Saturday, launching a long-expected attack to re-establish government control and undermine support for the militants in their southern heartland. The attack on Marjah climaxed the biggest joint Afghan-international offensive of the war and is the largest combat operation since President Barack Obama ordered 30,000 U.S. reinforcements here last December to turn the tide of the war. Marine commanders say they expect between 400 to 1,000 insurgents ...
3 US Troops Killed in Afghanistan Fighting
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL (Jan. 11) -- Three U.S. service members were killed Monday in fighting in southern Afghanistan, underscoring the unrelenting violence in the Taliban heartland as the Obama administration steps up efforts to rout the insurgents. NATO said the Americans were killed in an engagement with enemy forces but gave no more details. The deaths raised to at least 10 the number of U.S. service members killed in Afghanistan so far this year, according to an Associated Press tally. Officials said earlier Monday that bombs killed another American service member and two Afghan road construction ...
Video Shows CIA Bomber Describing 'Revenge' Attack
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Jan. 9) -- Video aired on Arab and Pakistani TV stations early Saturday is believed to show the double agent who blew up CIA agents in Afghanistan last month, describing his attack and pledging allegiance to a Taliban leader. The posthumous footage also shows a bearded man in military garb, identified as suicide bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, holding a gun in his lap and describing how he would attack U.S. and Jordanian intelligence agents. He speaks clearly in English. "The Jordanian and the American intelligence services offered me millions of dollars to work with them and to ...
Opinion: Some Smart Non-Military Moves for Afghanistan
By Carmen Gentile - AOL NewsKABUL (Nov. 23) -- As President Barack Obama finalizes his plans for a new phase of a war that now seems to be a deadly stalemate, attention has focused largely on how many additional U.S. troops he will send. But whatever his decision on that point, there are a number of other initiatives -- some tightly related to troop strength, some not -- that would help tilt the gargantuan effort of saving Afghanistan toward success. Here are some of them. 1. Put more money in education. Only about 30 percent of Afghans can read. Promoting literacy helps broaden Afghans' world view and makes the ...
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