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Abdul Rashid Doostam: Afghanistan's Damoclean Sword

Camelia Entekhabi-Fard | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai, Abdul Rashid Dostum, General Atta, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Presidential Election, Afghanistan Election, Mazar-E Sharif, Abdul Rashid Doostam, Balkhhad, General Doostam, World News
Camelia Entekhabi-Fard

For Karzai, General Doostam is the only person who can break the unity of the north. And so against the wishes of the U.S. and Turkey, General Doostam came back to Afghanistan.

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Afghan Warlords, Narco-State Government Not Worth Another Drop of U.S. Blood

Derrick Crowe | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Rethink Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan Election, World News
Derrick Crowe

The Bush-era idea that terrorism is a problem to be dealt with through invasion and occupation of foreign lands has led us down a path that ends with our morally culpability for the behavior of a narco-state flush with cash from the opium trade and U.S. taxpayer dollars.

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Abdul Rashid Dostum, Afghan Warlord, Returns To Help Karzai

McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay and Tom Lasseter | Posted 09.17.2009 | World

Read More: Afghan Warlord, Karzai, Afghan President Karzai, Afghanistan, Afghan Elections, Abdul Rashid Dostum, President Karzai, Karzai Afghanistan, Dostrum, World News

KABUL -- A notorious Afghan warlord accused of allowing the murder of hundreds, if not thousands, of prisoners and then destroying the evidence return...

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Afghanistan: The Real Exit Strategy - Free and Fair Elections

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 08.17.2009 | World

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Hamid Karzai, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan Surge, Elections, Afghan Elections, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News
Patricia DeGennaro

Karzai's approval rating has dropped 60% since he's taken office. Afghans are tired of the corruption and lack of leadership. They loath the warlords who, quite frankly, belong in the Hague not in his cabinet.

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Jeff Muskus

Carville Involvement In Afghan Race Complicates Situation For Clinton

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, Abdul Rashid Dostum, James Carville, Hillary Clinton, Ashraf Ghani, Politics News

James Carville is now managing the campaign of Ashraf Ghani, a principal challenger to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in next month's election. Yes, t...

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Obama Admin: No Grounds To Probe Afghan War Crimes

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 08.10.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials said Friday they had no grounds to investigate the 2001 deaths of Taliban prisoners of war who human...

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U.S. Silent While Afghan Ally Removes War Crime Evidence

McClatchy Washington Bureau | Tom Lasseter | Posted 01.11.2009 | World

Read More: Us War Crime Evidence, War Crime Evidence, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Afghan Ally War Crime Evidence, Afghan War Crime, Dostum War Crime, World News

DASHT-E LEILI, Afghanistan -- Seven years ago, a convoy of container trucks rumbled across northern Afghanistan loaded with the human cargo of suspec...

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