Obama Administration Refutes 2011 Withdrawal Date
07 December 2009
, The New York Times, 6 December 2009
EXCERPT: "The Obama administration sent a forceful public message Sunday that American military forces could remain in Afghanistan for a long time, seeking to blunt criticism that President Obama had sent the wrong signal in his war-strategy speech last week by projecting July 2011 as the start of a withdrawal. In a flurry of coordinated television interviews,...
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"We Have Promises of the World": Women's Rights in Afghanistan
07 December 2009
[pdf], Human Rights Watch, 6 December 2009
EXCERPT: "The US and its allies cited the defense of women's rights as one of the primary reasons, after the need to root out al Qaeda and defeat the Taliban, for their 2001 invasion and subsequent commitment to rehabilitate Afghanistan. Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, and the establishment of...
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Germany to Compensate Afghan Airstrike Victims
07 December 2009
Germany says to pay damages to Afghan Strike Victims , Reuters India, 7 December 2009
EXCERPT: "Germany's government will pay compensation to the families of civilian victims of September's German-ordered air strike in Afghanistan which Kabul says killed 30 civilians as well as insurgents, a spokesman said on Monday. A defence ministry spokesman told reporters that German officials had been in contact with a lawyer representing...
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NATO Strike Destroys Taliban Bastion: Officials
07 December 2009
, AFP, 7 December 2009
EXCERPT: "NATO warplanes pounded a Taliban stronghold in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing more than 20 insurgents and destroying a bunker complex, military officials said. Noor Akbar, a regional Taliban commander was among those killed in the raid in the province of Kunar, a mountainous region and Taliban flashpoint area near the Pakistan border, Afghan...
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