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Berlusconi Denies Bribing Taliban To Protect Italian Troops

AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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ROME — Italy and NATO on Thursday denied a newspaper report that Italian intelligence secretly paid the Taliban thousands of dollars to keep the...

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Robert Pape: To Beat The Taliban, Fight From Afar

nytimes.com | ROBERT A. PAPE | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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AS President Obama and his national security team confer this week to consider strategies for Afghanistan, one point seems clear: our current military...

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As U.S. Debates Afghanistan Policy, Taliban Beefs Up

McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay and Hal Bernton | McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON -- A recent U.S. intelligence assessment has raised the estimated number of full-time Taliban-led insurgents fighting in Afghanistan to at ...

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Hold the Line in Afghanistan

Percy Blakeney | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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If Obama permits McChrystal to implement his strategy, the US will lose the war in Afghanistan, the Taliban will return to power, and the nation will once again become a safe haven for al-Qaeda and Islamic extremism.

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Afghan Election Runoff Would Face Daunting Challenges

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

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KABUL -- Afghan officials would face a daunting task in organizing a runoff presidential election before the arrival of winter -- including hiring un...

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The Costs of Drone Strikes

Lisa Schirch | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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No matter the outcome of President Obama's deliberations about US strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the tactic of using unmanned drone strikes should be taken off the table.

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Pro-Afghan War Officials Play Up Taliban-al Qaida Ties: Analysis

Inter Press Service | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (IPS) - U.S. national security officials, concerned that President Barack Obama might be abandoning the strateg...

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The Explosion of the Afghan Insurgency: Utterly Predictable, Yet Hotly Debated

Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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Recently leaked intelligence assessments reportedly show that Al-Qaida and the jihadist Taliban groups account for only 10 percent of the insurgents in Afghanistan.

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Obama Quietly Authorized 13,000 Support Troops For Afghan War

Washington Post | Ann Scott Tyson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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President Obama announced in March that he would be sending 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. But in an unannounced move, the White House has a...

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Pakistan: Shangla Market Hit By Taliban Bombing, Dozens Killed

AP | RIAZ KHAN | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bombing targeting Pakistani troops killed 41 people Monday, the fourth grisly militant attack in just over a ...

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Kai Eide: UN Official Defends Afghanistan Election Despite Widespread Fraud

Los Angeles Times | Laura King | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Days before the outcome of Afghanistan's contentious presidential vote was expected to be announced, the head of the United Nations mission in the cou...

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Mullah Omar Leading Afghan Insurgency In Extraordinary Military Comeback

New York Times | SCOTT SHANE | Posted 10.11.2009 | World

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Eight years later, Mullah Omar leads an insurgency that has gained steady ground in much of Afghanistan against much better equipped American and NATO...

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US Officials Start To Negotiate With Taliban

Foreign Policy | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

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In a dramatic shift, some U.S. military and civilian officials in Afghanistan are now trying to negotiate with Afghan Taliban fighters to encourage th...

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Taliban Condemns Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

AFP | Waheedullah Massoud | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

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KABUL (AFP) The Taliban Friday condemned Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, saying rather than bring peace to Afghanistan he had boosted troop numbers ...

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Nobel Committee, Strategic As Ever, Taps Obama for Peace Prize

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

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Like the Nobel Peace Prize given to Desmond Tutu in 1984 to encourage an end of apartheid in South Africa, the Nobel Committee is now encouraging the change in world relations that Obama has promised.

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Killing Mullah Omar

Tom Hayden | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

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Any possibility of capturing or killing Mullah Omar -- and in their deepest fantasies, perhaps Osama Bin Laden -- is an opportunity too exciting for the Pentagon and the president to resist.

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Team Obama: Afghan Taliban Not a Threat to U.S.

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

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The top official in the Obama Administration, who is actually a leading scholar with long experience in Afghanistan, is leading the charge against sending more troops.

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How General McChrystal May Have Hurt Himself

Jon Soltz | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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From Generals MacArthur to Shinseki, history has taught us that trying to pressure your commander-in-chief from the outside almost never results in a change of opinion from the president.

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The United States Must Stay in Afghanistan

Sam Sedaei | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

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As President Obama is getting ready to live up to his promise, renew American efforts in Afghanistan and make a number of critical decisions regarding an increase of troops, an ever-growing chorus of liberals is pressuring him to abandon Afghanistan and withdraw without any regards to what will happen next.

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Gen. McChrystal Is No MacArthur

Jeff Stein | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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McChrystal is in for a rude awakening if he thinks he's a latter-day MacArthur, with a vast conservative following ready to rally to his side.

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A War of Absurdity

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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It's time to declare victory and begin to get out of Afghanistan rather than descend deeper into an intractable civil war that we neither comprehend nor in the end will care much about.

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791 U.S. Military Deaths In Afghanistan Since Start Of War

The Associated Press | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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As of Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009, at least 791 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasi...

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Al-Qaida Showing Smaller Presence In Afghanistan

AP | ROBERT H. REID | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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KABUL — Al-Qaida's role in Afghanistan has faded after eight years of war. Gone is the once-formidable network of camps and safe houses where O...

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Terry Holdbrooks: Guantanamo Bay Prison Guard Converted To Islam; Detainee Was Mentor

The Guardian | Sarfraz Manzoor | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

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Terry Holdbrooks arrived at Guant�namo detention camp in the summer of 2003 as a godless 19-year-old with a love of drinking, hard rock music and ta...

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Is Team Obama Really Rethinking Afghanistan?

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

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Withdrawing our forces does not mean the U.S. will have zero influence in Afghanistan. The U.S. can use political and diplomatic tools to work to ensure that a U.S. withdrawal is not followed by a Taliban military conquest.

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