Posts Tagged ‘Kabul’
Israel’s Last Chance of Survival »
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/In the summer of 2011, it will have been 18 years since the Oslo Accords were signed by Shimon Peres, secretly and without the knowledge of the Israeli public whose rights to their own land were being signed away. The accord was based on meetings by left wing academics with terrorists that were illegal under Israeli [...]
TERROR IN AFGANISTAN COURTESY OF AMERICAN FORCES »
It was November 19, 2009, at 3:15 am. A loud blast awoke the villagers of a leafy neighborhood outside Ghazni city, a town of ancient provenance in the country's south. A team of US soldiers burst through the front gate of the home of Majidullah Qarar, the spokesman for the minister of [...]
Western Troops Accused of Executing 10 Afghan »
Afghan investigators today accused US-led troops of dragging ten civilians from their beds and shooting them dead during a night raid. Officials said that eight children and teenagers were among the dead and all but one of the victims were from the same family. The reports led to angry protests in Kabul and Jalalabad, with children as young as 10 [...]
oil for security? it’s just like the civil »
1. ISI, CIA ran over 60 joint operations against al Qaeda commanders hiding in FATA A senior Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's main spy agency, official has revealed that the Central Investigation Agency (CIA) and the ISI together have run over 60 operations against Al-Qaeda and other key extremists commanders hiding in the Federally [...]
Our AfPak problem and the difficulty of playing well »
By Peter Feaver The New York Times has two stories today that neatly illustrate the challenges President Obama and his team face in working with our allies, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Afghanistan story reveals that there may well have been a serious discussion about "doing a Diem to Karzai" -- that is, discussion about [...]
Avengers for Allah »
RALPH PETERS http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/avengers_for_allah_Ldp4gSID18GMeubIe0zIWNLast Updated: 8:35 AM, December 10, 2009In recent weeks, a renewed epidemic of suicide bombings has swept Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq, climaxing in huge blasts in Baghdad that killed 130 innocents on Tuesday.The Obama administration says [...]
Afghanistan: shred and be shredded »
1. the day the general made a misstep by Mark Perryexcerpt:James Clad, a former Pentagon deputy assistant secretary of defense for South Asia, is one of the prominent doubters. "It's not clear to me that what we're facing in Afghanistan is a counter-insurgency," he says. "In fact, I'm quite [...]
At war in Afghanistan; at peace at home »
By Dov Zakheim Kabul is a city at war. There are green zones and red zones, and roadblocks everywhere. The city is awash with a host of uniforms -- those of NATO states, as well as others, from Australia to Mongolia. Americans in uniform walk the streets fully equipped and armed. American government civilians wear body armor, as I did when [...]
Obama adviser to McChrystal on defeating the Taliban: »
Jihad WatchOf course not. We're way beyond "victory" now. Everyone knows that enemies are defeated by building schools, roads, and hospitals.In any case, now we know that Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan is not intended to subdue (much less "kill every member of," as an Obama aide describes defeating them) the Taliban. What it is for is not so [...]
Alinsky Does Afghanistan »
Andrew C. McCarthyNR Contributing EditorDecember 04, 2009, 4:00 a.m.http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzRhOGIzZWNiN2FkZDIwNDEwOTcyYWY4OWJlYmNkNTg=Obama’s radical inspiration would have loved his speech on the war.If there is one word that captures President Obama’s much-anticipated Afghanistan speech, it is “cynical.” Yes, the speech [...]
