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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 ...
Pentagon May Buy Up Copies of Afghan War Book Over Disclosure Fears
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyDon't burn 'em, buy 'em. The Defense Department wants to purchase the entire first printing of a book by a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer who describes a number of planned secret operations in the Afghanistan war. Ten thousand copies of the book "Operation Dark Heart," by an Army reservist, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, are in a Virginia warehouse, but they are scheduled to be shipped to bookstores later this month by St. Martin's Press, the Washington Post reported Friday. The book was cleared by the Army Reserve earlier this year, but now the Defense Intelligence Agency is objecting ...
Petraeus: Quran Burning Could Endanger US Troops
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 6) -- Throughout history, whenever books have been set on fire, passions have been unleashed. In Gainesville, Fla., a pastor's plan to hold a public burning of Qurans to mark the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks has already set off angry protests from Afghanistan to Indonesia and elicited a formal response from the U.S. Embassy condemning the plan. Now, the book burning has another high-profile foe: Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of American forces fighting in that country. "It could endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort," Petraeus told The Wall ...
Opinion: What Obama Left Out of His Luke Dill Story
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 1) -- President Barack Obama's elegy for Operation Iraqi Freedom Tuesday night quoted a staff sergeant from the 2nd Infantry Division's 4th Stryker Brigade, the last U.S. Army "combat" unit to cross into Kuwait: "I know that to my brothers in arms who fought and died, this would probably mean a lot." The staff sergeant was Luke Dill, and his words were published in an Aug. 19 Associated Press story. But Dill, an 18-year-old specialist in 2003, made it in a far different spirit than his commander in chief. "It's something I'm going to be proud of for the rest of my life -- the fact that ...
Petraeus Insists Taliban Is Being Halted in Key Areas
By Terence Neilan - AOL News(Aug. 23) -- The recently appointed commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan says that the Taliban's momentum has been reversed in many areas of the country, but that success comes at a price and "tough fighting" lies ahead. "When you take away areas that mean a lot to the enemy, the enemy fights back," Gen. David Petraeus said in a BBC interview. Reminded that June and July were the deadliest months for troops now under his command, Petraeus added, "As I said, it gets harder before it gets easier." But he said reversing the Taliban, in areas south of the country and in Kabul, was not ...
After Breitbart and Shirley Sherrod, We Need a Slow-News Movement
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyIt was the biggest American news exclusive of World War I. In a breathless cable that immediately went out over the wire on Nov. 7, 1918, thrilling a war-weary world, United Press correspondent Roy Howard reported from Paris in telegraph-ese: "URGENT ARMISTICE ALLIES GERMANY SIGNED ELEVEN MORNING HOSTILITIES CEASED." The United Press scoop was marred by only one pesky factual problem -- the actual armistice was not signed until four days later, Nov. 11. The resulting reputation for unreliability helped consign the penny-pinching UP to perpetual also-ran status in its 20th-century competition ...
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 ...
Michael Steele: Just Sayin'. And Sayin'. And Sayin'.
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Blunt-Spoken General to Lead US Central Command
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 8) -- The general picked to oversee two wars and lead troops in the most strategically sensitive region in the world is sometimes known as "Mad Dog." At other times he's been "Chaos" and "Warrior Monk." Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis was named to take over U.S. Central Command today by Defense Secretary Robert Gates because of his "strategic insight and independent thinking." If confirmed, the head of Joint Forces Command -- who had planned to retire within weeks -- would replace Gen. David Petraeus, who recently became commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Manuel Balce ...
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