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Report Says 92 Percent of Afghan Men Have Never Heard of 9/11 Attacks
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Nov. 19) -- It's been nearly a decade since the United States invaded Afghanistan in response to 9/11, President Barack Obama has said U.S. troops will remain there for at least another four years, and a new report indicates that a vast majority of men in the key southern provinces of Afghanistan have never heard of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The report, by the International Council on Security and Development (ICOS), found that 92 percent of 1,000 men surveyed in Helmand and Kandahar provinces -- where the military surge against the Taliban has taken place -- have no knowledge of the ...
Women Candidates in Afghanistan Travel a Dangerous Campaign Trail
By Heather Somerville - Politics DailyAfghan women running in the country's parliamentary elections in September face security threats that make campaigning difficult, and at times impossible. Female candidates have reported receiving verbal threats and "night letters" from the Taliban that threaten violence if they don't stop their efforts, according to nonprofits working in the country. The threats haven't discouraged women from running for office, though. Of the 2,550 candidates in the country's second-ever parliamentary election, 406 are women. "The women who are brave enough to do this thing -- it's sort of a self-selected ...
Can Local Militias Save Afghanistan?
By not in system - AOL News(July 15) -- Even before the resignation of the top U.S. commander in the country, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, things were not going well in Afghanistan. Many U.S. and U.K. observers have been wondering whether, after nine years of fighting, we can still win. Now that President Barack Obama has replaced McChrystal with Gen. David Petraeus to lead the Afghan mission, the four-star hero of Iraq knows he has to implement new ideas. Petraeus' first big gambit is a plan, backed by NATO and the Afghan government, to establish local militias that would police the area and defend against insurgents like ...
Petraeus on Afghan War: 'We Are in This to Win'
By not in system - AOL NewsKABUL, Afghanistan (July 4) -- Gen. David Petraeus formally assumed command of the 130,000-strong international force in Afghanistan on Sunday, declaring "we are in this to win" despite rising casualties and growing skepticism about the nearly 9-year-old war. During a ceremony at NATO headquarters, Petraeus received two flags - one for the U.S. and the other for NATO - marking his formal assumption of command. He said it was important to demonstrate to the Afghan people and world that al-Qaida and its extremist allies will not be allowed to once again establish sanctuaries in Afghanistan ...
Pakistan Lashes Out at US After Deadly Shrine Bombings
By not in system - AOL NewsLAHORE, Pakistan (July 2) -- Pakistanis lashed out Friday at the U.S., blaming its alliance with their government and its presence in Afghanistan for spurring two suicide bombers to kill 42 people at the country's most important Sufi shrine. The reactions showed the challenge facing Washington and the Pakistani government when it comes to rallying public support against the Islamist extremism that has scarred the South Asian nation, even after an audacious attack on the moderate, Sufi-influenced Islam most Pakistanis practice. Thousands of people had gathered late Thursday at the green-domed ...
McChrystal, Afghanistan, and the Era of Foreign Policy Austerity
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyFor all the excessively glib parallels to Harry Truman's dramatic sacking of Douglas MacArthur, Stanley McChrystal's intemperate comments recorded by Rolling Stone do not rise to the level of a extra-constitutional challenge to civilian control of the military. The imperious, impetuous, and imperial MacArthur wanted to command American foreign policy: The five-star general wrote a letter to the Republican leader of the House, urging unleashing Chiang Kai-shek on Formosa to attack mainland China. McChrystal, in contrast, as the smoking-gun Rolling Stone article demonstrates with bull's-eye ...
Amid Obama Surge, Troops Prepare for Afghanistan Perils, Hardships
By David Wood - Politics DailyCAMP GUERNSEY, Wyo. -- Looking for a place to prepare for its yearlong combat tour in Afghanistan in September, the infantry battalion that calls itself "the Wild Boars'' settled on this remote patch of windswept high plains. For a month, its soldiers battled blizzards and sub-zero temperatures, conditions that are common to Afghanistan's mountainous terrain. They practiced shooting almost straight up steep ridges, and straight down. They shot daytime and nighttime. They shot while running and they shot while running and wearing heavy packs. They practiced rappelling their wounded down ...
Obama's Afghanistan Strategy Draws Barbs From All Sides
By not in system - AOL News(Dec. 1) - President Barack Obama's speech formally announcing his plans for the war in Afghanistan generated an avalanche of opinion, much of it critical of one aspect or another of his strategy for winning the war. As a service to readers, Sphere asked experts from different political perspectives to weigh in on the issue, and gathered a sampling of opinion from elsewhere on the Web. J Alexander Thier of the U.S. Institute for Peace argues that Obama made a strong and eloquent case for our continued effort to stabilize both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Now the question is: How do we get from ...
Civilian War Casualties Jump 24 Percent in Afghanistan
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyThe U.N.'s Human Rights Unit reported on Friday that war casualties this year have climbed 24 percent higher than during the same period last year. Since 2007, civilian deaths in Afghanistan have been on a steady rise, and the U.N. cited airstrikes by government and allied forces and bombings by insurgents as the two largest factors behind the increase. It's not just how the attacks are being carried out, though, but the spread of fighting, which has engulfed over a third of the country, including northern areas that had been peaceful. The U.N. also cited new fighting in civilian areas, ...
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