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NATO Is Confident of More Planes for Libya Soon
By not in system - AOL NewsBERLIN -- NATO failed for a second day to find new ground-attack aircraft for the fight against Moammar Gadhafi's forces in Libya but Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told The Associated Press on Friday he expects the additional planes soon. NATO's top military commander, U.S. Navy Adm. James Stavridis, has said there is a growing need for precision attack aircraft to avoid civilian casualties as Gadhafi's forces camouflage themselves and hide in populated areas to avoid Western airstrikes. American officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to ...
Western Allies at Odds Over Arming Libyan Rebels
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL NewsWith the NATO-led no-fly zone now in place over Libya, world attention has turned to the possibility that weapons could be supplied to anti-government forces -- a step that there appears to be little agreement on so far within the coalition. "I'm not ruling it out," President Barack Obama told NBC News in an interview Tuesday. "But I'm also not ruling it in. We're still making an assessment partly about what [Moammar] Gadhafi's forces are going to be doing. Keep in mind, we've been at this now for nine days." Today, Reuters reported that Obama had signed a secret agreement to provide support ...
NATO Deal on Libya Doesn't Mean Quick Exit for US
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- NATO's limited role in command of the no-fly zone over Libya doesn't allow the U.S. to make a quick exit from the costly military operation as the Obama administration had wanted. American sea and airpower remain key parts of the effort to counter forces loyal to Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi after allies balked at assuming complete command of the campaign that began six days ago. The U.S., along with France and Great Britain, maintain primary responsibility for attacks on Gadhafi's ground forces and air defense systems, which are the toughest and most controversial parts of ...
World Leaders Mourn 'Bulldozer' Richard Holbrooke
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Dec. 14) -- World leaders are paying tribute today to the man they nicknamed the "Bulldozer" -- Richard Holbrooke, the longtime U.S. diplomat who served in Vietnam and wrote a chapter of the Pentagon Papers, negotiated an end to the Bosnian war and most recently served as White House envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan. He died Monday after surgery for a tear in his aorta. He was 69. Here's what leaders around the world are saying about Holbrooke: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai issued a statement today calling Holbrooke "a veteran and seasoned diplomat who had served greatly to the ...
NATO, US Differ on Ending Afghan Combat Role
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LISBON, Portugal (Nov. 20) -- NATO nations formally agreed Saturday to start turning over Afghanistan's security to its military next year and give local forces full control by 2014. President Barack Obama said for the first time that his goal is to end U.S. combat missions in Afghanistan by that year. But Obama cautioned it's "hard to anticipate" the exact American role in Afghanistan four years from now. "There may still be extensive cooperation with the Afghan armed services to consolidate the security environment," Obama told reporters at NATO's summit in the Portuguese capital. He ...
NATO Summit to Focus on Afghanistan, Iran
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(Nov. 16) -- The official goal of the NATO summit President Barack Obama attends this weekend in Portugal is a remodeling of the military alliance for the 21st century, but the biggest news out of Lisbon is likely to focus on Afghanistan and Iran. For more than a year, NATO leaders, senior American defense and diplomatic officials and their counterparts from the other 27 member countries have been working on a new strategic concept, a "guide" for the alliance over the next decade that will make it more relevant not only to the post-Cold War world but to the post-9/11 world as well. It will ...
NATO Chief Sees More Big Missions in the Future
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(Oct. 8) -- Despite flagging support within NATO for its mission to pacify Afghanistan, the military bloc's leader said today he expects the alliance to take on similarly ambitious missions in the future. Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, outlining his hopes for a new strategy document NATO leaders will debate next month, told an audience in Brussels, Belgium, that updating the alliance's crisis management ability is crucial because the war in Afghanistan has shown that "no other organization can marshal, deploy and sustain NATO's military power." "Which is why I am totally ...
NATO Chief Condemns Planned Quran Burning
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Sept. 7) -- NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who once defended the publication of cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad, is condemning a Florida pastor's plan to burn Qurans on the ninth anniversary of 9/11, saying it could "have a negative impact on the security for our troops" fighting in Afghanistan. Rasmussen agreed with Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces there, who said the spectacle of Islam's holy book going up in flames could "endanger troops and it could endanger the overall effort" to defeat the Taliban. "I think it's a disrespectful action," ...
Clinton Offers Afghanistan Support; Karzai Plan Backed
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 20) -- Foreign leaders backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai's plan for his country to take over its own security within four years, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the world will stand with Afghanistan even after Washington begins withdrawing its troops next summer. Amid tight security in the Afghan capital of Kabul, rocket fire at the international airport forced a plane carrying U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the Swedish foreign minister to a one-day conference to be diverted this morning to Bagram air base, according to media reports. The diplomats ...
NATO Pledges 7,000 New Troops to Afghanistan
By David Sessions - Politics DailyAnders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, announced Friday that NATO will send 7,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to supplement the 30,000 President Obama pledged earlier this week, the New York Times reports. Rasmussen said the addition of 37,000 troops will have a "powerful effect" on the deteriorating situation in the country, and that it was important that Afghanistan not "fall back into the hands" of the Taliban. "President Obama made it clear that this is not America's war alone," Rasmussen said in a Web video urging NATO allies to commit ...
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