Politics

Karzai bluffing America as there is no alternative

Admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:04:44 GMT

Karzai bluffing America as there is no alternative Karzai was and is corrupt, so said men in the streets of Kabul and the Taliban as well but the US administration turned a blind eye to it. TINA (there is no alternative) was in play. CJ: Chitranjan Sawant Wed, Apr 07, 2010 10:32:06 IST AH! WHAT a queer turn of events in Karzai a native Pushto speaking Afghan in oil business in America was hand picked by the Bush Administration to run the show in Afghanistan as per democratic norms. In ...

Obama spricht Machtwort mit US-Marionette

Admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:49:05 GMT

Afghanistan: Obama spricht Machtwort mit US-Marionette Von DAVID WALSH, 6. April 2010 - Der Blitzbesuch von Pr�sident Barack Obama vom 28. M�rz in Afghanistan und die Berichterstattung in den amerikanischen Medien dar�ber zeigen deutlich, welcher Art die Beziehungen zwischen Washington und dem Regime in Kabul sind. Die Washington Post schrieb, Obamas erster Besuch in Afghanistan �war kurz und fand im Dunkel der Nacht statt � aus Sicherheitsgr�nden. Er landete auf dem Luftwaffenst�tzpunkt ...

Pentagon 'terrorism suspect' easy to find

Admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:48:20 GMT

Pentagon 'terrorism suspect' easy to find : He's talking to Karzai McClatchy Newspapers By Nancy A. Youssef 07/07/2009 KABUL - Haji Sahib Rohullah Wakil spends his days going from one high-level official meeting to another with the swagger of a tribal elder, advocating for the needs of Kunar province, his home region. Each encounter � with President Hamid Karzai , with Karzai's chief of staff or with one of Afghanistan's other presidential candidates � begins the same: They thank him ...

A New General, and a New War, in Afghanistan

Admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:11:22 GMT

A New General, and a New War, in Afghanistan By Mark Thompson / Washington and Aryn Baker / Kabul General Stanley McChrystal holds crisis talks on his phone at a local ANA (Afghan National Army) base. Alixandra Fazzina for TIME ENLARGE + The headquarters of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul looks more like a college campus than the nerve center of a military operation involving more than 90,000 troops from 41 countries, its staff officers roaming ...

Habib Mangal,The candidate for the Presidential Election 200

Admin — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:41:52 GMT

The candidate for the Presidential Election 2009 in Afghanistan nominated by The All-embracing Movement for Democracy and Progress of Afghanistan (AMDPA). Dr Habib Mangal son of Babrak Khan was born on 1946 in the village of Stercout district of Kolander Mangal province of Khost. Dr Habib Mangal�s father was a well known intelligent man who was the head of the tribal�s from the provinces of Khost Paktiya and Paktika who played an active role in the development and encouraging people for ...

Expansion Of Afghan Security Forces

Admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:02:11 GMT

Expansion Of Afghan Security Forces Fraught With Challenges Afghan police guard the Kabul-Kandahar highway March 25, 2009 By Abubakar Siddique For Kabul resident Shah Muhammad, 46, it is easy to recall the days when armed factions fought pitched battles in the city streets. As he enjoys a sunny spring afternoon in a Kabul park, watching children playing and running around, he tells RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan that foreign troops would have to leave one day, but says that ...

Who Are the 'Moderate' Taliban?

Admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:08:36 GMT

Who Are the 'Moderate' Taliban? James Joyner | March 09, 2009 President Obama's promise over the weekend to "reach out to moderate elements of the Taliban" has generated some rather strong reactions, mostly in the negative. UPI's Claude Salhani sets the stage:

A question that was put to this correspondent Sunday in a television interview by a reporter following Obama's statement to the NYT was how can there ...

Another Karzai Forges Afghan Business Empire

Admin — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:29:21 GMT

By JAMES RISEN Lynsey Addario for The New York Times Mahmoud Karzai, right, with a model of an apartment project in Kabul, has cultivated ties that have helped his ventures grow. Published: March 4, 2009 KABUL, Afghanistan � Eight years ago, Mahmoud Karzai was running a handful of modest restaurants in San Francisco, Boston and Baltimore. Today, Mr. Karzai, an immigrant waiter-turned-restaurant owner, is one of Afghanistan�s most prosperous businessmen. Skip to next ...

Dreaming of splitting the Taliban

Admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:52:45 GMT

Dreaming of splitting the Taliban [url=http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/search.cgi?query=By Helene Cooper&sort=publicationdate&submit=Search]By Helene Cooper[/url] Published: March 8, 2009 WASHINGTON HERE is a proposition that is bound to cut deep into the national psyche: Should the United States seek to negotiate with some of the same people who gave sanctuary to Osama bin Laden prior to the Sept. 11 attacks? President Barack Obama is sending an additional 17,000 American ...

Major failures of American policy in Afghanistan

Admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:30:11 GMT

Major failures of American policy in Afghanistan Sunday, 10.12.2008, 10:17pm (GMT-7) Seven years have passed since the terror attacks of 9/11 and the launch of 'Operation Enduring Freedom' by the US. However, in spite of efforts on the political, military and economic front, why is Afghanistan tethering on the brink of anarchy? There are some fundamental problems that plague US policy in Afghanistan. The fall of the Taliban had generated immense euphoria and expectations amongst the Afghans. ...

America and Afghanistan

Admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:17:43 GMT

Changing the guard in Kabul? Feb 12th 2009 | KABUL From The Economist print edition America is debating whether to stick by Hamid Karzai. The stakes are high THE Afghan guard of honour, in green uniform and white gloves, formed an orderly line at Kabul�s presidential palace, Arg-e-Shahi, as snowflakes drifted down through the smog onto their gold braid. It would be some hours before they welcomed Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general. But beforehand the guards had to line up ...

Taliban warn Obama: Leave Afghanistan

Admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:47:54 GMT

Taliban warn Obama: Leave Afghanistan Analysts say the war will be one of the new president's toughest challenges. By David Montero posted January 21, 2009 at 10:15 am EST As President Barack Obama steps into the White House and into history, the Taliban have a message for him: Leave Afghanistan. "The insurgent Taliban said Wednesday that US President Barack Obama should learn from the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and pull his troops out of the country to allow Afghans ...

Taliban warn Obama: Leave Afghanistan

Admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:47:53 GMT

Taliban warn Obama: Leave Afghanistan Analysts say the war will be one of the new president's toughest challenges. By David Montero posted January 21, 2009 at 10:15 am EST E-mail a friend Print this Letter to the Editor Republish ShareThisE-mail newsletters RSS As President Barack Obama steps into the White House and into history, the Taliban have a message for him: Leave Afghanistan. "The insurgent Taliban said Wednesday that US President Barack Obama should learn from ...

Taliban warn Obama: Leave Afghanistan

Admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:47:53 GMT

Pakistan and the War on Terror

Admin — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:13:50 GMT

Pakistan and the War on Terror: Conflicted Goals, Compromised Performance E-mail Print By Ashley J. Tellis Publisher: Carnegie Endowment Carnegie Endowment Report, January 2008 Full Text (PDF) The United States must shift its counterterrorism policy towards Pakistan away from a reciprocal approach�requiring Islamabad to perform desirable actions to receive support�towards one encouraging Pakistan to enact effective counterterrorism policies, not for an immediate ...

AFGHANISTAN 1979-1992 America's Jihad

Admin — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:54:28 GMT

end --> 53. AFGHANISTAN 1979-1992 America's Jihad His followers first gained attention by throwing acid in the faces of women who refused to wear the veil. CIA and State Department officials I have spoken with call him "scary," "vicious," "a fascist," "definite dictatorship material".{1} This did not prevent the United States government from showering the man with large amounts of aid to fight against the Soviet- supported government ...

Karzai Discredits Democracy in Afghanistan

Admin — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:54:57 GMT

Karzai Discredits Democracy in Afghanistan by Bahlol Lohdi In a recent speech given at the American-Afghan business conference, Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. envoy to the UN, and one of the enthusiastic proponents of using American "hard power" to reorder the Muslim world, finally admitted to the myriad problems facing the international community in its efforts to resolve the Afghan conflict. That these pronouncements were now trite, since they were well-known facts to all who ...

End support to Afghan narco-regime: Bring the troops home no

Admin — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:03:49 GMT

End support to Afghan narco-regime: Bring the troops home now! Doug Lorimer In a new study, entitled Stumbling into Chaos: Afghanistan on the Brink, the Brussels-based Senlis Council international policy think-tank said that the Taliban is now the de facto governing authority in large portions of southern Afghanistan. The report argued that unless the US-led occupation coalition doubles the number of its troops in the country � currently almost 50,000 � the rest of Afghanistan could ...

Karzai�s fundamentalist regime, courtesy of us

Admin — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:53:47 GMT

Karzai�s fundamentalist regime, courtesy of us Published by Antony Loewenstein27 January 2008 . The case of the Afghani journalist sentenced to death for allegedly downloading a suspect article online is far more complex than we are being told, writes Afghan blogger Sanjar: This is a power game, Karzai government has been critical of media for awhile, this incident allowed the religious scholar to rampage a journalist. In big picture it shows where power lies and where ...

Taliban seize Nato supplies in Pakistan

Admin — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:44:44 GMT

Taliban seize Nato supplies in Pakistan By Isambard Wilkinson in Tank, Pakistan The suspected mastermind behind Benazir Bhutto's assassination has stolen sophisticated Nato equipment by raiding the alliance's supply lines running through Pakistani territory. Mr Musharraf, who is touring Europe, will speak in London today Baitullah Mehsud, the Taliban commander who American officials hold responsible for Miss Bhutto's death, has emerged as a threat to the flow of supplies ...

Afghan who dared to read about women's rights

Admin — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:09:02 GMT

Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights By Kim Sengupta A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country's rulers. This is Afghanistan � not in Taliban times but six years after "liberation" and under the democratic rule of the West's ally Hamid Karzai. The fate of Sayed Pervez Kambaksh has led to domestic and international protests, ...

The Soviet-Afghan War

Admin — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:06:55 GMT

The Soviet-Afghan War 1976: CIA and Other Intelligence Agencies Use BCCI to Control and Manipulate Criminals and Terrorists Worldwide sEL('1626004942-28538','28538') Investigative journalist Joseph Trento will later report that in 1976, the Safari Club, a newly formed secret cabal of intelligence agencies (see September 1, 1976-Early 1980s), decides it needs a network of banks to help finance its intelligence operations. Saudi Intelligence Minister Kamal Adham is given the task. ...