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Hamid Karzai

My Exclusive Interview with Ken Guest -- Journalist/Analyst on Afghanistan (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | World

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Kathleen Wells, J.D.

The path out of the Afghan quagmire lies in making the Afghan tribes the cutting blade of the strategy, not the US forces or the Afghan National Army.

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U.S. Sends Paparazzi to Find Bin Laden

Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.02.2009 | Comedy

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Andy Borowitz

In a bold new strategy designed to locate the world's most wanted man, the United States today dispatched a team of paparazzi to find Osama bin Laden.

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Sam Stein

Gibbs: Karzai Is The "Legitimate Leader"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration said on Monday that it now considers President Hamid Karzai to be the "legitimate" leader of Afghanistan, despite widespread ...

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White House Giving Karzai Six Months To Shape Up

New York Times | David E. Sanger | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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With the White House's reluctant embrace on Sunday of Hamid Karzai as the winner of Afghanistan's suddenly moot presidential runoff, President Obama n...

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Nick Horne, Resigning UN Officer: We Must Force Political Change In Afghanistan, Or Fail

Times Online | Nick Horne | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

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Two days ago, I left the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan because, as I stated in my resignation letter, "I have believed for some time that the m...

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Too Big to Fail?: Why All the President's Afghan Options Are Bad Ones

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

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Tom Engelhardt

Our leaders evidently never saw a war to which the word "more" didn't apply. Hence the Afghan War, where impending disaster is just an invitation to fuel the flames of an already roaring fire.

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Karzai Effectively Handed 2nd Term After Abdullah Drops From Afghan Election

AP | HEIDI VOGT and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

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KABUL — President Hamid Karzai effectively secured a second term Sunday when his only challenger dropped out of the race, and the Obama administ...

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Abdullah Withdraws From Afghan Election

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

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President Hamid Karzai's rival in the second round of the Afghan presidential election has announced that he is withdrawing from the poll....

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Afghan Election Runoff Not Affected By Abdullah Abdullah's Call For Boycott: Hillary Clinton

AP | Posted 10.31.2009 | Home

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JERUSALEM — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says Abdullah Abdullah's call for a boycott of next weekend's runoff election in Afghanist...

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Obama Seeking Options To Send Fewer Troops To Afghanistan

washingtonpost.com | Anne E. Kornblut and Greg Jaffe | Posted 10.31.2009 | World

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President Obama has asked the Pentagon's top generals to provide him with more options for troop levels in Afghanistan, two U.S. officials said late F...

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Abdullah May Pull Out Of Afghan Runoff

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 10.31.2009 | World

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UNITED NATIONS — Talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and challenger Abdullah Abdullah have broken down, and Abdullah is likely to pull o...

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Power Sharing - the Fix-it-All from Honduras to Zimbabwe

Sandip Roy | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

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Sandip Roy

It's good to know they have brokered a power-sharing deal in Honduras. Manuel Zelaya is happy. Roberto Micheletti said he had made a "significant con...

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Afghan Panel Rejects U.N.'s Election Runoff Advice

Guardian | Jon Boone | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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The chances of another disastrous round of voting in Afghanistan's presidential race increased dramatically today after the country's election authori...

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Afghanistan, Again: The Thicket Obama's Not Getting Out Of

William Bradley | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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William Bradley

We can't afford to build a nation in Afghanistan. We have one reasonable goal there, and everything else, no matter how seemingly noble it may or may not be, is a luxury.

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Hamid Karzai's Brother Only Tip Of Iceberg Of U.S. Dependence On Afghan Warlords: IPS

Inter Press Service | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (IPS) - The revelation by the New York Times Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President ...

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Taliban: If You Can't Beat Them, Buy Them!

Jamal Dajani | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Hamid Karzai, Cia, Taliban, Opium, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Ahmed Wali Karzai, World News
Jamal Dajani

Afghanistan is not Iraq. Unlike the Sunni Awakening, when Iraqi tribe members took up arms against al-Qaeda and foreign insurgents, the Taliban are an integral part of Afghanistan, not foreign fighters.

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The CIA, The Brothers Karzai and Spinning our COIN Wheels

Richard Allen Smith | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

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Richard Allen Smith

We are partnering with a symbol of government corruption, which undermines any trust we might receive from the population. We are funding the insurgency we are attempting to counter.

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Ahmed Wali Karzai Denies CIA Pay

AP | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

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KABUL — Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president, on Wednesday denied reports that he has received regular payments from the CIA f...

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What We Owe Afghanistan

Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

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Taylor Marsh

As it now stands, the Afghan women are worse off today than they were when the Taliban reigned. We cannot leave it at that, or Afghanistan will become even more of a corrupt mess.

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CIA Pays Off Another Afghan Despot, Hopes for the Best

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 10.28.2009 | World

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Allison Kilkenny

It appears as though the CIA is -- yet again -- employing the good ol' "The Enemy of My Enemy is The Guy Who Screws Me In The End" foreign policy doctrine.

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Abdullah Abdullah Considers Runoff Boycott If Demands Not Met

washingtonpost.com | Joshua Partlow and Pamela Constable | Posted 10.26.2009 | World

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KABUL -- The challenger to President Hamid Karzai is considering boycotting the upcoming runoff if his demands are not met to remove the leaders of Af...

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Sam Stein

Dems Counter-Punch Cheney: He Masterminded Failure (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

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Democrats pushed back forcefully against Dick Cheney on Sunday for comments the former vice president made accusing President Barack Obama of "ditheri...

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Karzai Rules Out Afghan Power Share Before Afghan Election Runoff

Washington Post | Joshua Partlow and Pamela Constable | Posted 10.25.2009 | World

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President Hamid Karzai's team shifted aggressively into campaign mode Saturday and ruled out any possibility of a power-sharing deal with challenger A...

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New On The NYR Blog

The New York Review of Books | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

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The New York Review blog has two new posts up today, from Haleh Esfandiari, who writes about her tenure in Evin Prison in Tehran, and Ahmed Rashid, wh...

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Western Export of the Ballot Box Elixir is Pure Hubris

Simon Jenkins | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

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Simon Jenkins

It is insufferable that Afghanistan, a miserable statelet, can reject liberal democracy despite the efforts of 70,000 NATO and NGO staff kicking their heels in Kabul's dust for eight years.

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