Canada Starts Planning Afghan Withdrawal, Aims to Route Supplies through Pakistan
14 October 2010
, The National Post, 14 October 2010
EXCERPT: "The first 'baby steps' to meet an end-of-2011 deadline for everything Canadian to be gone from Kandahar has started with the repatriation of badly broken or damaged vehicles that would have proved too costly or taken too much time to repair in-theatre before the end of the combat mission next July. The military, which employs jargon...
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NATO Facilitating Afghan-Taliban Talks
14 October 2010
, The Washington Post, 14 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Momentum toward peace negotiations in Afghanistan appeared to grow Wednesday as a senior NATO official said the military alliance had 'facilitated' contacts between senior Taliban members and the 'highest levels of the Afghan government.' The official said NATO forces in Afghanistan were granting safe passage to Taliban leaders...
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Pakistan Re-opens NATO Supply Route
14 October 2010
, AFP, 10 October 2010
EXCERPT: "NATO supplies via a vital Pakistani border crossing with Afghanistan resumed on Sunday after a hiatus caused by a NATO air attack, as officials said a US drone had killed seven militants. The first convoy through the Torkham border crossing, comprising more than a dozen vehicles, "left for Afghanistan this afternoon," customs official Mohammad Nawaz...
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US Asks Karzai to Allow Private Security Protection for Foreign Aid Community
14 October 2010
, The Washington Post, 14 October 2010
EXCERPT: "The United States and its NATO allies, worried about how the Afghan government's ban on private security companies might affect their operations, have asked President Hamid Karzai to sign a letter allowing such companies to continue protecting the foreign aid community, according to Western officials in Kabul. Karzai was given the...
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French General Claims Progress in East, Notes ANA's Improved Professionalism
14 October 2010
, The New York Times, 13 October 2010
EXCERPT: "The French experience in Sarobi suggests that with a substantial number of Afghan troops, generous spending on civilian projects like schools and jobs programs and a local government that is not too corrupt, it is possible to create a measure of calm. [...] As he departs for France after his six-month tour, General Chavancy says he believes...
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Afghans Allege Abuse at Secret US Jail: Report
14 October 2010
, The Associated Press, 14 October 2010
EXCERPT: "A new report from a U.S. foundation details allegations of detainee abuse as recently as this year from Afghans who say they were held at a secret jail inside the main American military base in Afghanistan. The U.S. military has long operated a facility to detain those captured in Afghan operations, first inside Bagram Air Field and now right...
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