Baradar's Extradition to Afghanistan Likely
30 June 2010
Baradar's Extradition to Afghanistan Likely, DAWN, 30 June 2010
EXCERPT: "Furthering its efforts to help the Karzai government reach a negotiated settlement with Taliban and other warring factions, Pakistan indicated on Tuesday that it might extradite Mullah Baradar and other senior Afghan militant commanders to Afghanistan. Afghanistan had recently made a renewed call for extradition of Baradar and other Taliban commanders detained...
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NATO's Grand Experiment Leaves Marjah Scrabbling For a Future
30 June 2010
, The Independent, 30 June 2010
EXCERPT: "In a country fractured by mountain ranges and ethnic splits, local government can assume an importance unseen in more benign environments. Turning it into a functioning branch of the state is integral to Western hopes for a stable Afghanistan. Yet months after Nato and the Afghan government first rolled in, Marjah appears to some to be stagnating.It...
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Afghan Militants Fail in Attack on NATO Air Base
30 June 2010
, The New York Times, 30 June 2010
EXCERPT: "Eight Taliban insurgents were killed on Wednesday after they attacked the NATO air base in Jalalabad using a suicide car bomb and rocket-propelled grenades in an attempt to breach the gate. The attack, which was similar to one carried out at Bagram Air Base in May, began at 7:30 a.m. when a suicide bomber driving a car detonated his explosives...
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Afghan Attorney General Says US Ambassador Pushed for Corruption Prosecutions
30 June 2010
, The New York Times, 29 June 2010
EXCERPT: "Afghanistan's attorney general disputed published allegations Tuesday that he had been pressured by the Afghan political leadership to sideline corruption investigations into some of the country's elite, and he turned on the American ambassador, Karl W. Eikenberry, alleging that the ambassador had pressed him to bring...
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German DM Questions Role of NATO in Afghanistan War
29 June 2010
, The Independent, 29 June 2010
EXCERPT: "Germany is arguing for the aims of Nato's operations in Afghanistan to be significantly scaled down and wants the alliance to adopt criteria to ensure that it never commits itself to a similarly open-ended mission in future. This was the message conveyed by the German Defence Minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, during a...
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UN Vehicle Shot in Afghan Capital, Driver Killed
29 June 2010
, The Associated Press, 29 June 2010
EXCERPT: "An Afghan man working for the United Nations was shot and killed in his vehicle Tuesday near a busy traffic circle in Afghanistan's capital, the world body said. Elsewhere, U.S. and Afghan forces battled hundreds of militants from an al-Qaida-linked group for a third day in Kunar province of eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said....
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Report Faults US for Being Too Optimistic About Afghan Security Capabilities
29 June 2010
, The Washington Post, 29 June 2010
EXCERPT: "The U.S. military has systematically overstated or failed to adequately measure the capabilities of Afghan security forces, whose performance is key to the Obama administration's exit strategy for the war, according to a new government audit. Efforts to prepare and equip Afghan forces are also plagued by a shortage...
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With Shift in Afghanistan, Talk Turns to Exit
29 June 2010
, The New York Times, 28 June 2010
EXCERPT: "When he ordered 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan last December, President Obama stressed that they would not stay forever. 'After 18 months,' he said, 'our troops will begin to come home.' Last weekend, though, he scorned the 'obsession around this whole issue of when do we leave,' saying he was focused on making sure the troops were successful....
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NATO's June Death Toll in Afghanistan Nears 100
28 June 2010
, AFP, 28 June 2010
EXCERPT: "The death toll for foreign soldiers in Afghanistan neared the grim milestone of 100 for June alone Monday as the CIA chief warned the anti-Taliban war would be tougher and longer than expected. Britain's Ministry of Defence said a soldier had been killed in the southern province of Helmand on Sunday, taking the June toll as tallied by AFP to 99 --...
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Corrupt Afghan Officials "Creaming Off US and British Aid Money"
28 June 2010
Corrupt Afghan Officials "Creaming Off US and British Aid Money", The Telegraph, 28 June 2010
EXCERPT: "The sum haemorrhaging from one of the poorest countries in the world has led officials to believe the money is from plundered Western aid projects and security or reconstruction contracts, it has been reported. Proceeds from the country's rampant opium and heroin businesses also account for part of the sum, which is more than the Afghan...
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