14th March, 2009
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Dangerous decisions in Afghanistan Pt. 3
Posted by seumasach on March 15, 2009
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La méthode Holbrooke, du Kosovo au Pakistan
Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2009
3rd March, 2009
La méthode Holbrooke, du Kosovo au Pakistan
L’administration Obama a contraint ses principaux alliés engagés en Afghanistan à modifier leur organisation administrative et à désigner un interlocuteur unique à l’ambassadeur Richard Holbrooke pour créer un « groupe de contact sur l’Afghanistan et le Pakistan ». De cette manière, Washington espère dépasser les résistances nationales et mobiliser le maximum de moyens, militaires et civils, au service de l’OTAN.
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US finds 13 civilians died in Afghanistan strike
Posted by seumasach on February 22, 2009
The Taliban are getting ” increasingly violent”although, obviously, they have a lomg way to go before reaching American standards.
“An expert on civilian casualties said she was “cautiously optimistic” the U.S. is taking a new approach in dealing with civilian casualties. Sarah Holewinski, the executive director of The Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, said more high-ranking military officials are visiting gravesites and apologizing”
These little courtesies go a long way.
“Instead of immediately denying civilian deaths, which deeply angers Afghans and with good reason, he said the U.S. will instead immediately investigate, make apologies and provide amends where appropriate,”
Well, Obama did promise change!
KABUL – An operation the American military at first described as a “precision strike” instead killed 13 Afghan civilians and only three militants, the U.S. said Saturday, three days after sending a general to the site to investigate.
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Obama, Osama and Medvedev
Posted by seumasach on February 19, 2009
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Russia must come back to Afghanistan
Posted by seumasach on February 15, 2009
“The global crisis is the basis for transition from speculative financial political models to the models of industrial development.”
February 15, 2009
A coalition of the major world powers can save Afghanistan, believes Yury Krupnov, Russian political analyst and the head of the Development movement and the Institute for Demography, Migration and Regional Development.
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Taliban storms Afghan Ministries, 26 killed
Posted by seumasach on February 12, 2009
| Eight gunmen wearing suicide vests go on a shooting spree |
— Photo: AP
Under attack: Afghan security personnel take positions near the Afghan Justice Ministry in Kabul following an attack by Taliban gunmen on Wednesday.
KABUL: Taliban gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed the Justice Ministry and another government building in Afghanistan’s capital on Wednesday, killing 26 people ahead of a planned visit by President Barack Obama’s special envoy to the region Richard Holbrooke.
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Kyrgyzstan says no proposals from Pentagon on U.S. airbase
Posted by seumasach on February 6, 2009
BISHKEK, February 6 (RIA Novosti) – Kyrgyz Prime Minister Igor Chudinov dismissed on Friday media reports that his country had received a set of new proposals from Washington concerning the closure of a U.S. airbase on its territory.
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NATO seeks Iran help over Afghanistan
Posted by seumasach on February 3, 2009
This question is the crux of the matter for the collapsing empire: which of its enemies will allow it to resupply its armies in Afghanistan? They have just decided it is Iran.
3rd February, 2009
NATO says member states can use Iran as a safe supply path to forces in Afghanistan, amid increasing attacks on its routes through Pakistan.
Posted in Afghanistan | Tagged: Afghanistan. Khyber Pass, End of empire, Iran | 1 Comment »
Karzai scares Obama with Russia
Posted by seumasach on February 3, 2009
2nd February, 2009
MOSCOW. (Pyotr Goncharov0 – Russia may become a major factor in the presidential ambitions of the leading Afghan politicians during the country’s presidential elections next summer.
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Obama’s program of war
Posted by seumasach on January 31, 2009
James Cogan
29th January, 2009
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Within days of taking power, the Obama administration has made clear that it will escalate the war to subjugate the Afghan people, intensify US military strikes on targets inside Pakistan and continue the occupation of Iraq indefinitely. What is being prepared is a brutal escalation of US military violence in Afghanistan and a widening of the conflagration in the region. |
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Biden may hold unclenched Iranian hand
Posted by seumasach on January 31, 2009
M.K. Bhadrakumar
3oth January, 2009
Eyes trained to watch the Hindu Kush must now turn askance toward Germany where the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy is scheduled to take place next weekend. Organizers of the annual event revealed on Thursday that among the 300 prominent figures from the international arena of foreign, security and defense policy will be a “very high-ranking personality” from Tehran.
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