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The Long War: Afghanistan After July 2011
By David Wood - Politics DailyOn my first reporting trip to Afghanistan, beginning in Jan. 2002, I lived for several months with 30 soldiers in a leaky tent heated against the bitter cold with a kerosene-fired pot-bellied stove. Waiting to be airlifted into the mountains to fight the Taliban, the soldiers and I shuffled through rutted snow to another sagging tent for chow and down a beaten path to the hastily built (and unheated) plywood latrine. We washed and shaved outside. The U.S. Army colonel who ran the base told me that no permanent structures would be built there; the policy of the Bush administration was to ...
8 US Troops Killed in Wave of Afghan Attacks
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 14) -- Eight U.S. troops have been killed over the past 24 hours in Afghanistan after a barrage of attacks by insurgents, NATO and Afghan officials said today. The carnage began late Tuesday night, The Associated Press reports, when the Taliban unleashed a suicide car bomber, rocket-propelled grenades and machine-gun fire on an elite police station in restive southern Afghanistan, killing three U.S. troops and five Afghan civilians. Four more troops died today when a roadside bomb exploded, the AP said, and a fifth died after a gun battle. The complex and apparently well-planned ...
Rogue Afghan Soldier Kills 3 British Troops
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (July 13) -- A rogue Afghan soldier fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a NATO patrol today, killing three British troops in an incident likely to renew doubts about the reliability of the Afghan army. Four soldiers were wounded, according to a military spokesman. It is not known whether the renegade soldier was working for the Taliban or a local warlord or was simply taking revenge for an unknown grievance. A statement issued by NATO said the attack took place early in the morning at a joint NATO/Afghan army base in southern Afghanistan. Sky News reported that the dead soldiers are ...
McChrystal vs. Obama: Top 3 All-Time General-Against-President Feuds
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyWashington is in an absolute uproar over the "The Runaway General," as Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, is characterized in a bombshell Rolling Stone magazine profile that went online today. Specifically, the scandal surrounds statements in the article attributed to the strong-willed McChrystal and his aides that are staunchly critical of the White House's approach to the war in Afghanistan, and some members of the Obama administration writ large. They article comes at an especially inopportune time, with the situation in Afghanistan ...
Karzai Says Training Afghan Forces Will Take Years, Presses for Reconciliation With Taliban
By David Sessions - Politics DailyBefore the start of a London summit this week on the future of Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai said his country's security forces could need training and support for more than a decade, the BBC reports. "With regard to sustaining them until Afghanistan is financially able to provide for our forces, the time may be extended to 10 to 15 years," Karzai said. The Afghan leader also argued for his plan to reintegrate willing members of the Taliban into government positions -- a strategy that has won support from U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. "We must ...
Civilian Deaths at Record High in Afghanistan in 2009
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe United Nations says civilian deaths in Afghanistan reached a record high last year, despite a 30 percent drop in killings attributed to allied troops, the Associated Press reports. Some surveys show Afghan civilians now blaming the Taliban and other insurgents, rather than the United States, for the death toll, though it is difficult to get an accurate reading of opinion in the country. The U.N. said 2,412 civilians were killed in 2009 -- a 14 percent increase over the 2,118 who died in 2008. Nearly 70 percent of civilian deaths last year, or 1,630, were attributed to the ...
Roadside Bomb Kills 4 US Troops in Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL (Jan. 4) -- A roadside bombing killed four U.S. service members, the first American combat deaths of the year in Afghanistan, while a British soldier died during a foot patrol elsewhere in the volatile south of the country, officials said Monday. A statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force said the explosion that killed the U.S. service members took place Sunday in the south, but did not give further details on the location or the victims' branch of service. The deaths are the first U.S. fatalities from hostile action in Afghanistan this year. One U.S. service ...
Taliban: We're Responsible for Deadly Afghan Blasts
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL (Dec. 31) -- The Taliban claimed responsibility Thursday for infiltrating a CIA base with a suicide bomber who got into a gym and set off an explosion that killed eight Americans and an Afghan. CIA employees were believed to be among the victims. Wednesday's assault on U.S. Forward Operating Base Chapman at the edge of Khost city in eastern Afghanistan was a blow to the CIA, which had previously lost only four operatives in this country since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. It came on a bloody day for NATO forces. A roadside bombing, also claimed by the Taliban, killed four Canadian troops ...
Military Chief Defends Obama on Afghanistan
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 3) -- Public praise for their civilian superiors is expected of senior uniformed leaders. But the nation's top military man seemed to go out of his way on Wednesday to praise President Barack Obama's plan to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, then begin withdrawing them by the middle of 2011. "His is a more balanced, more flexible and more achievable strategy than we have had in the past, one based on pragmatism and real possibilities," Adm. Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a pair of congressional committees. "And speaking for the ...
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