Posts Tagged ‘Kabul’
More CHANGE you voted for: Obama may allow Americans »
Why wouldn't the Post-American President allow this? After all, he already plans to try the CIA members who interrogated jihadis at Gitmo, and Navy Seals who captured a top jihadist. Why should he have any problem with this? "Prosecuting American 'War Crimes': The International Criminal Court claims jurisdiction over U.S. soldiers in [...]
Prosecuting American ‘War Crimes’ »
The International Criminal Court claims jurisdiction over U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.By DANIEL SCHWAMMENTHALThe HagueSecretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed "great regret" in August that the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has fueled speculation that the Obama administration may reverse another Bush [...]
corruption is global »
1. afghanistan runs on well-oiled wheelsKABUL - Every morning, dozens of trucks laden with diesel from Turkmenistan lumber out of the northern Afghan border town of Hairaton on a two-day trek across the Hindu Kush down to Afghanistan's capital, Kabul. Among the dozens of businesses dispatching [...]
The U.S. pays the Taliban to not attack? We should be »
The Nation has a great story this week: the U.S., via its subcontractors, pays the Taliban not to attack its trucks carrying military supplies around the country: The bizarre fact is that the practice of buying the Taliban’s protection is not a secret. I asked Col. David Haight, who commands the Third Brigade of the Tenth Mountain Division, [...]
MORE OF THE USURPER’S GREATEST HITS 4/28/09 to »
By Peter Andrew - ConservativeAmerican.org Obama’s Broken Promise to Wipe out Income Tax for Seniors Making less than $50,000 4/28/9 The Humble Libertarian: “Obama promised to eliminate income taxation for seniors making less than $50,000 a year. He has broken this promise despite numerous opportunities to keep it, including the economic [...]
Turning the Karzai challenge into the Karzai crisis »
By Will Inboden The leaked cables from U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry this week add a new wrinkle to President Obama's protracted decision-making over his Afghanistan strategy. Eikenberry's cables apparently urge against increasing the US troop posture because of his concerns about Afghan President Karzai's corruption, competence, [...]
afghanistan a disastrous mess »
1. US air supply drop turns deadly, commandos go on killing spree after US military drops supplies in wrong spotHERAT - Contradictory accounts of dead and injured from Afghan and Western forces and eyewitnesses have left a confused picture of an American military supply drop that appears to have gone [...]
It hasn’t been 8 years of drift in Afghanistan »
By John HannahIn today's Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens rises to the defense of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Toward the article's close, Stephens writes that: It would be ... useful if some of Mr. Karzai's more acerbic Western critics could ask themselves why matters went abruptly south in Afghanistan after several years in which they had [...]
Brother of Hamid Karzai (Afghan President) Said to Be »
"KABUL, Afghanistan — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials." More on NYTimes [...]
British Plan to Build Training Camp For Taliban »
Britain planned to build a Taliban training camp for 2,000 fighters in southern Afghanistan, as part of a top-secret deal to make them swap sides, intelligence sources in Kabul have revealed. The plans were discovered on a memory stick seized by Afghan secret police in December.The Afghan government claims they prove British agents were talking to [...]
