Taliban Leaders to Be Offered Exile Under Peace Plan
05 May 2010
Taliban Leaders to Be Offered Exile Under Afghanistan Peace Plan, The Guardian, 5 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Top Taliban leaders could be offered exile outside Afghanistan if they agree to stop fighting the government of Hamid Karzai, a long-expected peace plan by the Afghan government will propose later this month. The far-reaching proposals, seen by the Guardian, also call for 'deradicalisation' classes for insurgents and thousands...
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Blackwater Tape Details Controversial Operations
05 May 2010
Secret Erik Prince Tape Exposed, The Nation, 3 May 2010
EXCERPT: "In the speech, Prince proposed that the US government deploy armed private contractors to fight 'terrorists' in Nigeria, Yemen, Somalia and Saudi Arabia, specifically to target Iranian influence. He expressed disdain for the Geneva Convention and described Blackwater's secretive operations at four Forward Operating Bases he controls in Afghanistan. He called...
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05 May 2010
, The Associated Press, 5 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Taliban suicide bombers disguised as police attacked a government compound Wednesday in southwestern Afghanistan in an assault that left 13 people dead, including a provincial council member and all nine attackers, authorities said. Eight of the bombers blew themselves up and police shot the ninth, President Hamid Karzai's office said....
Railway Construction to Aid Economy & NATO, Rile Taliban
05 May 2010
Afghan Railway to Aid Economy and NATO, Rile Taliban, Bloomberg, 5 May 2010
EXCERPT: "Workers are laying track across north Afghanistan's rolling grassland for the country's first rail line, a project that will boost the economy, supply NATO troops and become a target for Taliban bombs. [...] The link to Uzbekistan and onward to Kazakhstan and Russia also will reduce the dependence of Afghanistan and of U.S.-led NATO forces...
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