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By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyVice President Joe Biden is in Afghanistan, arriving Monday and using the unannounced visit to "assess progress" the Afghans are making toward taking over security responsibilities from U.S. forces later this year. Biden is making his first visit to Afghanistan as vice president. He traveled to the country, where U.S. troops have been stationed for almost a decade, in January 2009 as vice president-elect, assessing the situation Barack Obama would inherit as president. According to a pool report, Biden landed on Monday evening -- Kabul is nine hours ahead of East Coast time -- and will ...
Obama in Afghanistan: Thanks U.S. Troops for 'Tough Fight'
By David Wood - Politics DailyDays before signing off on a classified review of progress in the war, President Obama flew Friday to Afghanistan under heavy guard for a lightning visit. Bad weather shut down a planned meeting with President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, but Obama met with U.S. troops at the huge U.S. Bagram air base north of the Afghan capital. Amid what one senior U.S. officer called "a deteriorating stalemate'' in the fighting against an expanding Taliban insurgency, Obama wanted "to spend some time with the troops . . . basically to wish them a happy holidays,'' said White House spokesman Ben Rhodes. "It's a ...
WikiLeaks Cables Reveal Rampant Corruption in Afghanistan
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Dec. 3) -- Hundreds of diplomatic cables exposed by WikiLeaks have laid bare the rampant corruption that can found at almost every level of Afghan government and society, and highlight America's powerlessness to tackle this epidemic of extortion and embezzlement. Most of the dispatches were sent from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul over the past two years and implicate many members of the country's political elite. An October 2009 cable details an extraordinary incident in which Afghanistan's then first vice president, Ahmed Zia Massoud, landed in Dubai with $52 million in cash. ...
Timeline Questioned as Petraeus Takes Command
By not in system - AOL NewsGen. David Petraeus formally assumed command Sunday of the combined U.S.-international force in Afghanistan, saying that the effort to turn back the Taliban insurgency was at a "critical moment" and vowing, "We are in this to win." ...
Petraeus Assumes Command in Afghanistan
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyGen. David Petraeus formally assumed command Sunday of the combined U.S.-international force in Afghanistan, saying that the effort to turn back the Taliban insurgency was at a "critical moment" and vowing, "We are in this to win." Petraeus, dressed in camouflage fatigues, received two flags during a ceremony at NATO headquarters in Kabul -- one for the U.S. and one for NATO. The U.S. makes up the bulk of the 130,000 man force Petraeus will oversee. Petraeus arrived in Afghanistan on Friday after being confirmed by the Senate Tuesday in the post he took over from Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who ...
US Attorney General Tackles Corruption in Kabul
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(June 30) -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is in Kabul for talks with local officials on how to root out corruption, as a scandal swirls over whether Afghan officials are under pressure not to investigate their political allies. Earlier this week, The Washington Post quoted U.S. officials as saying top Afghan officials are blocking key corruption probes that target friends or political allies of President Hamid Karzai. Afghan prosecutors were instructed to disregard evidence against executives of a major financial firm suspected of helping Afghan elites move millions of dollars out of the ...
Are Eikenberry, Holbrooke Next Ones Out the Door?
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (June 24) -- President Barack Obama said he accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation because it was "time for all of us to come together." But some observers predict Wednesday's removal of the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan could turn into just another "Kumbaya" moment if Obama doesn't continue to clean house on his national security staff. In announcing his decision to replace McChrystal with Gen. David Petraeus in the wake of the now-infamous Rolling Stone article, the president declared, "This mission demands unity of effort across our alliance and across my national ...
McChrystal Reportedly Offers Resignation Following Derisive Remarks
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyGen. Stanley McChrystal, under fire for the dismissive, wisecracking remarks he made about Obama administration officials in a magazine article, submitted his resignation Tuesday as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, according to several reports. Following a cabinet meeting, President Obama said McChrystal had "showed poor judgment'' in his comments about the administration. But Obama said he would make no decisions about the general's future until he has had a chance to talk with him directly on Wednesday. Earlier Tuesday, McChrystal was recalled to Washington and summoned to the White ...
Obama Considers Firing McChrystal for Comments
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(June 22) -- President Barack Obama is furious with Gen. Stanley McChrystal and is considering firing him for a magazine article in which the top military commander in Afghanistan criticizes senior White House aides and his assistants poke fun at administration officials overseeing the war. Despite an apology from McChrystal earlier in the day, Defense Secretary Robert Gates ordered the general home to explain himself at the monthly White House meeting on the war. McChrystal had been scheduled to address Wednesday's meeting by video. "General McChrystal has made an enormous mistake," White ...
Afghan, U.S. Leaders: War Progress Steady but 'Slow'
By David Wood - Politics DailyAfghanistan's President Karzai and U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal arrived in Washington Monday with sobering news: progress in the war is steady – but slow. In a White House briefing, neither McChrystal nor retired Gen. Karl Eikenberry, now the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, would say whether they believe enough military progress and political reform will take place by next summer to enable U.S. troops to "begin to transfer'' back home from Afghanistan, as President Obama has promised. "Much work lies ahead'' before that can happen, said McChrystal, who commands all U.S. and allied ...
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