Efforts to Destroy Taliban Command Structure May Backfire: Experts
25 October 2010
An Afghan Taliban Commander Feels NATO's Heat, but It Could Backfire, Los Angeles Times, 23 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Midlevel Taliban field operatives such as Commander H., who leads a cell of fighters outside the southern city of Kandahar, are acutely aware that they are being hunted more intensely than ever before: The NATO-led force in Afghanistan says that in the last three months, it has killed or captured hundreds of insurgent...
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Dutch Aid Worker Kidnapped in Northern Province of Takhar
25 October 2010
, AFP, 25 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Gunmen kidnapped a Dutch aid worker and his Afghan driver on Monday in the increasingly volatile north of Afghanistan, local officials said. 'A Dutch aid worker working for an NGO (non-governmental organisation) that helps the disabled was abducted today in Khan Abad district,' Faiz Mohammad Tawhidi, Takhar provincial spokesman, told AFP. The...
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Canadian Captured at 15 in Afghanistan Pleads Guilty at Guant?namo Court?
25 October 2010
, The New York Times, 25 October 2010
EXCERPT: "A former child soldier being held at the military prison on Guant?namo Bay, Cuba, pleaded guilty on Monday to terrorism-related charges, averting the awkward prospect that he would be the first defendant to stand trial before a military commission under the Obama administration. Omar Khadr, 24, a Canadian citizen, admitted to a military...
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Nothing Close to Formal Peace Talks in Afghanistan: Holbrooke
25 October 2010
Holbrooke: Nothing Close to Formal Peace Talks in Afghanistan, CNN, 24 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Reconciliation talks in Afghanistan between the government and Taliban insurgents are less formal than full-fledged peace negotiations, U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke said in an interview broadcast Sunday. In comments to CNN's 'Fareed Zakaria GPS' program, Holbrooke said the contacts so far involve 'an increasing number...
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Karzai Confirms Report of Cash Payments from Iran
25 October 2010
Karzai Confirms Report of Cash Payments from Iran, BBC News, 25 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Afghan President Hamid Karzai has acknowledged that his office has received cash from Iran, but insists it was part of a "transparent" process. Mr Karzai was responding to a report in the New York Times that Tehran had been passing bags stuffed full of cash to Mr Karzai's aides. The cash was intended to promote Iran's interests in...
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Taliban Suicide Attack Targets UN Compound in Herat
25 October 2010
, The Washington Post, 23 October 2010
EXCERPT: "The Taliban launched a midday assault on the United Nations headquarters in western Afghanistan on Saturday, crashing a car bomb into a compound gate to create an opening for suicide bombers disguised as women, according to U.N. and Afghan officials. The attack was a startling reminder of the Taliban's readiness to strike...
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