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No Rest for the Weary: Obama Arrives in Lisbon for the NATO Summit
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyPresident Obama touched down in Lisbon Friday morning, barely rested from a scant week in Washington after 10 days in Asia. But the short weekend in Portugal will be no holiday. On the docket are packed days revolving around the NATO summit and the U.S.-European Union meetings that will include a re-evaluation of Afghanistan policy, U.S.-Russia policy, E.U.-Russia relations, a reaffirmation of U.S.-E.U. relations, missile defense, and nuclear disarmament. Indeed, The Economist called these next two days among the "most crucial" NATO meetings in the history of the organization. They will be ...
Afghan Leader Says His Office Gets Cash From Iran, US
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KABUL, Afghanistan (Oct. 25) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged on Monday that he receives millions of dollars in cash from Iran, adding that Washington gives him "bags of money" too because his office lacks funds. U.S. officials said the money flowing from Tehran was further proof that Iran is playing a double game in Afghanistan - wooing the government while helping Taliban insurgents who are fighting U.S. and NATO forces. The United States has itself used cash as a weapon in the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq - from local development projects to win public support, to ...
Report: NATO Escorts Taliban Elites to Peace Talks
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(Oct. 20) -- U.S. forces are helping top Taliban fugitives secretly slip from their hideouts in Pakistan and escorting them through neighboring Afghanistan to high-level, face-to-face peace talks with President Hamid Karzai's inner circle. That's according to The New York Times, which quotes unnamed Afghan officials with knowledge of the talks as describing how, in at least one case, Taliban leaders crossed the border and boarded a NATO aircraft bound for Kabul. Gemunu Amarasinghe, AP Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, prayed recently with members of Afghanistan's peace council, which is ...
Hamid Karzai to Larry King: I Am Not Manic-Depressive
By David Wood - Politics DailyIn an interview with CNN's Larry King, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, known for occasional emotional outbursts, denied he is manic-depressive and insisted he is not using anti-anxiety drugs. The Afghan president, who has often been sharply at odds with Washington and other western capitals, also disclosed that despite recent reports of high-level peace negotiations with the Taliban, there are "no official contacts'' with the insurgents. "We have been talking to the Taliban as countryman to countryman, talk in that manner. Not as a regular official contact with the Taliban with a fixed address, ...
Afghans Vote Amid Threats, Rocket Attacks
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Sept. 18) – Turbaned Afghan men and women in sky-blue burqas thronged to polling places across Afghanistan today to cast ballots for parliament, in elections delayed by bureaucracy and marred by Taliban rockets and bombings. The polls have now closed but turnout figures and results won't be available for weeks. Many reports say the crowds of voters looked thin. The Taliban had threatened to derail the polls, seen as a referendum on President Hamid Karzai's leadership. Six Afghan troops have been killed by the Taliban in the north, and at least five other people were killed in separate ...
Karzai Aide, Accused of Corruption, Is Being Paid by the CIA
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 26) -- It hasn't been the best week for the CIA. On Wednesday, WikiLeaks released a classified "Red Cell" report authored by the agency that depicts the United States as an exporter of international terrorism. Before that, citing anonymous sources, The Wall Street Journal alleged that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's most (and really only truly) trusted U.S. confidant was an unnamed CIA station chief known only by a ridiculously theatrical alias, "The Spider." Most damning, however, is Thursday's New York Times front-page scoop, reporting that the agency is paying Karzai's aide, who is at ...
Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai Aide in Corruption Case Linked to CIA
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyAn aide to Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at the center of a corruption case has been on the payroll of the Central Intelligence Agency for years, officials in Kabul and Washington say. Mohammed Zia Salehi, head of Afghanistan's National Security Council, was arrested in July and then freed when Karzai intervened. The CIA is not suspected of playing any role in his release, the New York Times said in its report Thursday on Salehi, but his links to the agency raise doubts about the Obama administration's struggle against corruption in the Afghan government. Salehi was nabbed after ...
Steve Coll: Stop Blaming Afghans for the Mess in Afghanistan
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Aug. 2) -- Though Steve Coll's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Ghost Wars" ends its narrative on Sept. 10, 2001, there's still no better book for understanding the American war in Afghanistan today. The book chronicles U.S. involvement in the country beginning with the Soviet invasion until 9/11, reporting in much detail the policy twists, turf wars and on-the-ground decisions by U.S. intelligence and diplomatic officers. What's remarkable in hindsight is how reliably the policymakers mucked these decisions up. As Washington went about undermining the Soviet occupation, it reached out to ...
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 ...
Is BP Oil Spill Helping Obama on Afghanistan War?
By David Corn - Politics DailyThe gushing oil of the BP spill continues to darken the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, posing a profound challenge to President Barack Obama, whose efforts seem (perhaps through no fault of his own) barely connected to whatever will bring this eco-disaster to an end. But the dark swill pouring into the gulf has also drawn attention from another challenging problem for the president: Afghanistan. Granted, the $100 billion-per-year war in Afghanistan usually attracts little media notice or political debate. It's not often on the front pages, and it's barely a blip on the cable news radar screen. ...
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