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Taliban Take Over Afghan Province

By Syed Saleem Shahzad

The United States has withdrawn its troops from its four key bases in Nuristan, on the border with Pakistan, leaving the northeastern province as a safe haven for the Taliban-led insurgency to orchestrate its regional battles.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23837.htm



U.S. To Protect 10 Afghan Population Centers

By Thom Shanker, Peter Baker and Helene Cooper

Under the strategy officials described yesterday, the administration now is looking at protecting Kabul, Kandahar, Mazar-i-Sharif, Kunduz, Herat, Jalalabad and a few other village clusters. The first of any new troops sent to Afghanistan would be assigned to secure Kandahar, the spiritual capital of the Taliban, seen as a center of gravity in pushing back insurgent advances.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23836.htm



U.S. Dependence On Afghan Warlords

By Gareth Porter

U.S. and NATO counterinsurgency forces depend on Afghan warlords for security, according to a recently published report and investigations by Australian and Canadian journalists.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23840.htm



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There are already more than 100,000 international troops in Afghanistan working with 200,000 Afghan security forces and police. It adds up to a 12-1 numerical advantage over Taliban rebels, but it hasn't led to anything close to victory.

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Schumer: True cost of Afghan stability could be too high for America

"It cost us $6 trillion and 4,500 lives, approximately, to bring stability to Iraq," Schumer told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "Just in terms of the loss of life and treasure, do we want to do the same exercise in Afghanistan?"

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Afghan president's brother on CIA payroll for 8 years: report

The CIA pays Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the CIA's direction in and around Kandahar.

https://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=417811&type=World


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"..aber warum und wozu?"

"Kein Peacenik und kein Hasch rauchender Hippie", einer, der nichts gegen das Töten hat - der erste höherrangige US-Vertreter, der seinen Posten in Afghanistan aus Protest gegen den Krieg aufgibt.

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14 Americans Killed in Helicopter "Crashes"in Afghanistan

"We have a shadow government of the Taliban," he said. "And I am afraid some people in Afghanistan are even talking about the return of the Taliban because they see the power of the Taliban.

https://www.voanews.com/english/2009-10-26-voa11.cfm?rss=topstories



Military: 8 U.S. troops killed in Afghan blasts

The U.S. military said on Tuesday that eight American troops have been killed in bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month for U.S. forces in the eight-year Afghan war.

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33491981/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/



U.S. official resigns over Afghan war

Foreign Service officer and former Marine captain says he no longer knows why his nation is fighting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603394_pf.html


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An American Diplomat and a British Soldier Tell Their Leaders They Have No Clothes: No to the Afghanistan War Strategy
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US Official Resigns Over Afghan War

Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post: "When Matthew Hoh joined the Foreign Service early this year, he was exactly the kind of smart civil-military hybrid the administration was looking for to help expand its development efforts in Afghanistan. A former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq, Hoh had also served in uniform at the Pentagon, and as a civilian in Iraq and at the State Department. By July, he was the senior U.S. civilian in Zabul province, a Taliban hotbed. But last month, in a move that has sent ripples all the way to the White House, Hoh, 36, became the first U.S. official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war, which he had come to believe simply fueled the insurgency."

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Afghan army MIA

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by Kelley B. Vlahos

10/27/09

Forget what seems to be quite an open secret in Afghanistan. Every impulse on the part of the military establishment, its think-tank surrogates, Capitol Hill, and even the White House is to convince the American people that not only is building a formidable Afghan army doable, it is the only way out of there, however long it takes. This mighty goal seems less grounded in reality every day, but that fact appears perversely lost in the surge-or-not-to-surge debate going on in Washington right now. That’s probably because both sides desperately need to believe in the future success of the Afghan security forces in order to maintain their respective briefs for or against escalation...

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By Eric Margolis

Henry Kissinger once observed that being America's ally can be more dangerous than being its enemy.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23808.htm



Karzai questions US reliability as partner

Karzai said a partnership to him was "where the Afghan lives are respected, where Afghan property is respected, where the Afghan traditions are respected.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1013706/1/.html



12 Million Afghans live under poverty line: ministry

Afghan Minister for Public Health Syed Mohammad Amin Fatimi has revealed that 12 million out of the total 30 million Afghans, including 3 million children, live under poverty line in the war-torn country, a local newspaper reported Saturday.

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Um abziehen zu können, sollen die Sicherheitskräfte in Afghanistan massiv augestockt zu werden, aber für 120 Dollar finden sich für den gefährlichen Job nicht genügend Rekruten.

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An overwhelming 84 per cent believe British troops are currently losing the war in Afghanistan, a Channel 4 News poll finds, as thousands prepare to march on London urging an end to the conflict.

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UK: Protesters urge end to Afghan war

Soldiers and military families are among 5,000 protesters in London demonstrating against UK military operations in Afghanistan.

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