NATO Chief: Allies Will Provide 5,000 More Troops
02 December 2009
, The Associated Press, 2 December 2009
EXCERPT: "European and other U.S. allies will contribute more than 5,000 new troops to the international force in Afghanistan, NATO's chief said Wednesday, declaring that the war is not America's alone. Still, aside from Poland, the pledges came in small numbers from small nations. European powers like France and Germany praised President Barack Obama's...
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UN Envoy Condemns US Move to Bypass Karzai
02 December 2009
UN Head in Afghanistan Condemns US Move to Bypass Hamid Karzai, The Guardian, 1 December 2009
EXCERPT: "The UN's top diplomat in Afghanistan today attacked proposals to install a powerful high representative in Kabul to deal with President Hamid Karzai, saying the idea flew in the face of the current strategy to strengthen the Afghan government. Speaking hours before Barack Obama was due to announce his revised strategy in Afghanistan,...
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Losing Legitimacy? Some Afghan Views on the Govt, Int'l Community, and 2009 Elections
02 December 2009
Noah Coburn, Losing Legitimacy? Some Afghan Views on the Government, the International Community, and the 2009 Elections, Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), 30 November 2009
EXCERPT: "Following the confusing conclusion to Afghanistan's 2009 election season, an immediate international concern was the extent to which the process had damaged the legitimacy of the Afghan government. Officials from the United States and...
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Tora Bora Revisited
02 December 2009
John F. Kerry, , United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 30 November 2009
EXCERPT: "On October 7, 2001, U.S. aircraft began bombing the training bases and strongholds of Al Qaeda and the ruling Taliban across Afghanistan. The leaders who sent murderers to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon less than a month earlier and the rogue government...
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