Taliban Is Now A Threat To Region: Afghan Official
14 October 2008
'Taliban Is Now A Threat To Region, Afghan Official Says', M&C, 14 October 2008
EXCERPT: "The Afghan government told the UN Security Council Tuesday that the former Taliban rulers have become a threat to the country seven years after they were toppled from power. Taliban and al-Qaeda forces have intensified the fighting at Afghan borders with Pakistan, timing their campaign to presidential elections in the United States this...
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14 October 2008
'Afghanistan, Pakistan: The Battlespace Of The Border', Stratfor, 14 October 2008
EXCERPT: "U.S. military cross-border operations from Afghanistan into Pakistan have become increasingly overt and unilateral since the spring. More than a tactical shift, these operations are meant to address the strategic problem of Pakistan's lawless Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), where Taliban fighters from Afghanistan rest, recuperate...
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NATO Ministers Endorse Greater Anti-Drug Role In Afghanistan
14 October 2008
'NATO Ministers Endorse Greater Anti-Drug Role In Afghanistan', Media Newswire, 13 October 2008
EXCERPT: "The North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO) is embracing a broader counternarcotics role in Afghanistan for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) as well as a new mission to deter pirates off the coast of Somalia. During an informal meeting of NATO defense ministers in Budapest, Hungary, October 9-10,...
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2008 Afghanistan's "Worst Year": Minister
14 October 2008
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EXCERPT: "This year has been the bloodiest for insurgent violence in Afghanistan as increasing numbers of terrorists change battlegrounds and head here from Iraq, the defence minister said Tuesday. 'The level of violence has increased every year and 2008 has been the worst of all,' Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak told reporters, referring...
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