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Congressional Desk
March 07, 2010
Washington, D.C. – Representative Adam Schiff, a Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, returned from a weeklong trip where he visited American troops in Afghanistan and had an extended meeting with General Stanley McChrystal. Schiff travelled to Kandahar province, Kabul and...
International Desk
March 01, 2010
As a company committed to making a difference, Jolica is delighted to celebrate the new gardens in Afghanistan. Each garden represents hope for a more stable future for the family. Afghan women gain self-respect because they can now provide for their family and economic independence because they can...
International Desk
February 28, 2010
With the withdrawal of the 1,950 Dutch troops in Afghanistan following the collapse of the Dutch government, the Jury Team, one of the political parties in the newly formed Alliance for Democracy, again called on the UK government to bring the number of British troops in Afghanistan into line with t...
Dennis Copson
February 17, 2010
Just over five days ago our United States Marines, along with more than fifteen thousand NATO forces and Afghan army personnel began an assault into the Helmand Province, Afghanistan, a longtime stronghold of the Taliban and the center for opium poppy production which fuels the Taliban´s resurgence in that country. Not since 2001 has there been an assault of this size launched in that country. It is named ´Operation Moshtarak´ - (´Together´).
International Desk
February 07, 2010
WARSAW, POLAND -- TS2 Satellite Technologies company is introducing new broadband services on Eutelsat EB4 & W6 satellites to the Afghan market.
These types of telecommunication products are mainly used by the companies that execute contracts in Asia, as well as by the soldiers that are stationed...
Newswire Services
February 06, 2010
Thousands of US and British forces are preparing to launch the biggest offensive in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion.
American commanders gave notice that the assault is imminent.
Congressional Desk
January 16, 2010
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, issued the following statement after a terror attack in Afghanistan claimed the lives of seven CIA officers and wounded six:
"The American people may never know their names, but we owe the...
Congressional Desk
January 15, 2010
Says soldiers´ morale is high but announcing timetable for withdrawal a concern.
Washington, D.C. – During a Congressional visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan over the past four days, Idaho Senator Mike Crapo found U.S. soldiers in high spirits but foreign leaders left with questions over ann...
Elias Bejjani
January 09, 2010
This analysis was written by Hamid Ghoriafi, Middle East Analyst & Journalist,
Published on 09/01/10 by the Kuwaiti Daily Al-Seyassah,
Translated from Arabic by Elias Bejjani, LCCC Chairman*
Egyptian and Jordanian security sources warned yesterday that Hezbollah, Hamas, the Popular Front for th...
Congressional Desk
December 20, 2009
Washington, D.C. —Leading national security officials within the Administration continue to be forced to defend the President´s controversial July 2011 deadline to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan. In a meeting with senior Afghan officials in Kabul, the United States´...
Congressional Desk
December 16, 2009
Washington, D.C. – Idaho Senator Mike Crapo reacted to President Obama´s decision to send extra troops to Afghanistan by noting that the President should heed the guidance of his commanders in the field and ensure that U.S. soldiers are given the tools and backing necessary to accomplish their...
Congressional Desk
December 16, 2009
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, responded to President Obama´s speech tonight on the administration´s Afghanistan policy:
"After such a long deliberation, I am pleased that President Obama announced his admini...
Ralph E. Stone
December 09, 2009
President Obama recently announced that he is sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan bringing the total number of U.S. troops to about 100,000. Although, he stated that the U.S. would begin drawing down troops in July 2011, Defense Secretary Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were qui...
Venugopal Ravindran
December 07, 2009
US President Barak Obama's decision to send in more US troops to Afghanistan to try and undo one of the biggest strategic blunders in U.S. military history, the premature pivot from Afghanistan to Iraq may be too little, too late.
After inheriting two bungled wars, the Obama administration has go...
Gary Ater
December 04, 2009
If Obama is wrong, Bush´s poor decisions on Afghanistan could haunt Obama´s presidency to the very end.
Michelle Malsbury, BSBM, MM
November 30, 2009
As the Christmas season draws near there are people around the world who only as to be educated and connected. For a special Christmas wish for the youth of Afghanistan please read this article in its entirety
David Swanson
November 30, 2009
During a televised football game on Sunday, an announcer welcomed the members of the U.S. military viewing the game in 177 nations around the world. When the news came on, the topic was the same one it's been for weeks, speculation as to whether and how much a single individual will escalate war by sending tens of thousands of additional troops to nation number 177, Afghanistan.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
November 25, 2009
There was never doubt the moment General Stanley McChrystal flatly told President Obama last summer that the US must deploy up to 45,000 more troops in Afghanistan that´d he heed his command. The Pentagon had officially spoken through McChrystal. With the rare exception of JFK´s pushback against the generals during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, when the Pentagon speaks presidents listen. It´s been a costly listen. Vietnam, Somalia, Lebanon, Iraq, and now Afghanistan has cost countless America lives, squandered billions, frayed relations with the European allies, and reinforced the US´s global reputation as a swaggering, bombs and bullets first bully. Afghanistan is no exception.
Crime Blotter
November 23, 2009
WASHINGTON—Rohullah Farooqi Lodin and Hashmatullah Farooqi were each sentenced today in Alexandria, Va., to four years in prison for their roles in a scheme to offer $1 million in bribes to a U.S. Army contracting official in Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of...
Congressional Desk
November 14, 2009
McKeon: "Time is of the Essence and Failure to Seize the Initiative Risks Failure"
Washington, D.C.— The Army´s top officer said he backs an increase in U.S. forces in Afghanistan despite his long-standing concerns about military readiness. According to a Wall Street Journal story fr...
William Lambers
November 13, 2009
School feeding is a silent, but very critical aspect of reconstruction for any country.
David Swanson
November 13, 2009
Even on its own terms defending the wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iraq as validated by experts is a miserable failure.
John W. Sammon
November 08, 2009
Everybody expresses shock at the killings on the army base. Media outlets across the country ask "why?" So do soldiers at the base themselves.
Why did this happen?
I have the answer. America is a violent country. The base where the killings happened, the very base itself, represents the resort...
Gary Ater
November 06, 2009
A version of an idea from the right-wing conservative, George Will, just might be the best approach.
Arthur L. Ekrem
November 03, 2009
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Congressional Desk
October 26, 2009
Deployment of Additional Troops to Afghanistan Gains Key Endorsement
Washington, D.C.—General Stanley McChrystal´s call for the deployment of additional troops to Afghanistan gained a key endorsement over the weekend. As the commander of NATO´s International Security Assistance...
Michelle Malsbury, BSBM, MM
October 25, 2009
As leaders in America convene to discuss what to do about Afghanistan why hasb't anyone asked the people of Afghanistan what they want? For an insightful perspective from those in the region please read this article in its entirety.
John Albert Graham
October 18, 2009
Former Foreign Service Officer John Graham suggests how lessons learned from Vietnam could yet lead us to success in Afghanistan.
Congressional Desk
October 12, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, voiced his support for Army General Stanley McChrystal, Commander of U.S. and Coalition forces in Afghanistan, and called for the Obama administration to support General McChrystal´s reques...
Congressional Desk
October 12, 2009
"´Wait and See´ is not a war strategy and certainly not an approach that our senior military commanders are recommending."
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, made the following comments regarding the 8th annive...
Jann Burner
October 10, 2009
Why Are We in Afghanistan? Do we really need multiple thousands of boots on the ground? Is there another alternative?
Richard Boegner
October 10, 2009
It was a sound decision.
The US and NATO have been present in Afghanistan since 2001, and yet, the situation continues to deteriorate.
The time had come to reassess the mission, clarify its goals, and devise a strategy capable of realizing these objectives. All relevant parties would be consulted:...
John W. Sammon
October 06, 2009
Personally, I think it´s hopeless, though our military leaders use vague terms like we´re making "progress," we need to "turn it around"---what that is we never know because with these double-speak phrases they never specify, or we´ve "turned a corner," or there´s a "light at the end of the tunnel,"...
Peter H. Scrooby
October 05, 2009
8 U.S. troops where killed in a battle Saturday October 3rd in Kamdesh district of the Nuristan Province of Afghanistan, bringing the death toll of US troops to 16 for the month of October.
Robert Paul Reyes
October 04, 2009
"Insurgents stormed remote outposts in eastern Afghanistan killing eight Americans in the deadliest battle in more than a year near the border with Pakistan, the U.S. military said Sunday.
The fighting took place in Nuristan province's Kamdesh district in high mountains along the eastern border w...
Ralph E. Stone
September 29, 2009
Former president Jimmy Carter, who has monitored elections around the world, recently commented: "Hamid Karzai has stolen the recent [Afghan] election." Because of widespread fraud allegations, an election recount is presently being conducted in Afghanistan. At a minimum, President Obama should no...
Gary Ater
September 28, 2009
There is no military solution in Afghanistan. It´s time to step back, review and consider another approach.
Nicola Nasser
September 26, 2009
For too long now the Middle East has been paying in blood for U.S. experimental and contradictory foreign policies
United Macedonian Diaspora
September 21, 2009
The Republic of Macedonia´s decision to deploy an additional 80 troops to Afghanistan was applauded by the United Macedonian Diaspora (UMD) today. The plan calls for Macedonian troops to be paired with their U.S. counterparts from the Vermont National Guard - the first such pairing of American troops with forces from a non-NATO country.
Crime Blotter
September 18, 2009
WASHINGTON—Delmar Dwayne Spier, the chief executive officer and managing director of United States Protection and Investigations, LLC (USPI), today pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to conspiracy, major fraud and wire fraud arising from an alleged scheme to def...
Joe Fleishman
September 16, 2009
U.S. - Afghan relation is once again facing challenge on the concern of Afghanistan´s Presidential election. Most of the western observers believe Afghanistan´s election was not fair and significant irregularities were took place. U.S. is taking these allegations seriously. But Afghan President Hamid Karzai totally denounced the allegation.
Congressional Desk
September 14, 2009
WASHINGTON - The commander of US forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, may cut the number of support staff to free up US troops for combat against Taliban insurgents, US officials said.
"The idea is use troops more effectively," a US defense official, who spoke on condition of a...
Stafford Williamson
September 13, 2009
HUGE plantations: Mexico and Colombia cooperate on building jatropha/castor/palm oil to diesel plant in Chiapas, included.
Winnipeg Wimps out? Or do they? Go slow, or really just smoother transition?
The Universe is out of sync. I agree with George Will and argue with Fareed Zakaria on Afghanistan. (Mercury IS in retrograde, I am told.)
One-eyed Jacks and Single Arm windmills, betting big but with us "odds".
Ramzy Baroud
September 11, 2009
Left out of the options under consideration in "Obama's war" is the only one with any chance of success.
Despite assurances to the contrary in Washington and a major policy speech in London, one need not quibble with the obvious fact that the situation is deteriorating beyond repair in Afgha...
Gary Ater
September 09, 2009
The past empires of Greece, Persia, France and Russia all tried to unify and control Afghanistan, and they all failed at an unbelievable expense to their militaries and their fortunes.
Will it be any different with the United States?
September 05, 2009
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is sending a team to the north of the country where an overnight air strike by NATO forces against stolen trucks has reportedly led to dozens of civilian deaths.
Peter Galbraith, the Deputy UN Special Representative in Afghanistan, said ...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson
August 30, 2009
In August 2007 Senator Barack Obama fresh on the presidential campaign trail made an impassioned promise at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars to wage what he dubbed the war that has to be won. The war is the war in Afghanistan. He promised to quickly get out of Iraq, corral America´s allies in a partnership to wipe out the terrorists and their mass destructive weapons, end corruption, hold free elections, and insure a stable government in Afghanistan.
Two years later and a shell out of $230 billion dollars, and more than 700 US dead, not one of these goals have been met.
Dalga Khatinoglu
August 25, 2009
The elections held in Afghanistan on Aug. 20 are very similar to the presidential elections held in Iran on June 12.
The candidates' pre-election debates lively aired via TV channels, their speech about the planned falsifications before the presidential elections, the people's active participatio...
Newswire Services
August 21, 2009
More than 40 Pennsylvania Army National Guard soldiers from 228th Brigade Support Battalion, Company B; Headquarters Company 55th Brigade Combat Team; and Headquarters Company, Brigade Special Troops Battalion, Company A and B, will be recognized at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 23, during a Freedom Salute...
Crime Blotter
August 10, 2009
WASHINGTON—Two dual Afghan/U.S. citizens today pleaded guilty for their roles in a scheme to offer $1 million in bribes to a U.S. Army contracting official in Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of the East...
