CIA Deaths Prompt Drone Strike Surge
25 January 2010
, The New York Times, 22 January 2010
EXCERPT: "Since the suicide bombing that took the lives of seven Americans in Afghanistan on Dec. 30, the Central Intelligence Agency has struck back against militants in Pakistan with the most intensive series of missile strikes from drone aircraft since the covert program began. Beginning the day after the attack on a C.I.A. base in Khost, Afghanistan,...
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Taliban Buying Guns from Former Warlords
25 January 2010
Taleban Buying Guns from Former Warlords, Institute for War and Peace Reporting, 21 January 2010
EXCERPT: "Evidence is mounting that Taleban insurgents are purchasing the weapons they need to fight government and international forces from their former and perhaps future opponents: the warlords who controlled Afghanistan during the mujahedin period that followed the collapse of the Communist-backed regime of President Najibullah in 1992. The...
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UN: Lift Sanctions on Taliban to Build Peace
25 January 2010
, The New York Times, 24 January 2010
EXCERPT: "The leader of the United Nations mission here called on Afghan officials to seek the removal of at least some senior Taliban leaders from the United Nations? list of terrorists, as a first step toward opening direct negotiations with the insurgent group. In an interview, Kai Eide, the United Nations special representative, also implored the...
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NATO Forces to Launch Helmand Offensive
25 January 2010
NATO Forces in Afghanistan to Launch Helmand Offensive, BBC News, 25 January 2010
EXCERPT: "UK and other Nato troops are to launch an offensive to take back areas of southern Afghanistan, the British general in charge of forces there says. Maj Gen Nick Carter said the operation would 'assert the control' of the Afghan government in parts of Helmand now controlled by the Taliban. He told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that...
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