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Hamid Karzai’s Call to Disband US Private Security Contractors: Promoting...
Ahmed Wali Karzai (photo: ISAFMedia on Flickr) In a Reuters article on Sunday, we see yet another call from Hamid Karzai’s government in Afghanistan for the disbanding of US private security firms. It...
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US Soldier Arrested, Criminal Investigation of Afghan Prisoner Death Underway
A US Special Operations soldier discusses a joint patrol with Afghan forces on August 28 in Arghandab River Valley, Kandahar province. ISAFMedia photo on Flickr. Details are beginning to emerge in...
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Petraeus Pouts When Karzai Pierces Silence on Night Raids
Petraeus only wants happy stories out of Afghanistan, like this terrific bread-buying adventure, not stories of innocent civlians disappearing from their homes in the dark of night. (ISAFMedia photo)...
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Exclusive video from Obama’s visit to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan just came in to Firedoglake:
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Why US Foreign Policy Is Flummoxed by Egypt’s Uprising
John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence via Wikimedia CommonsAs the United States struggles to respond to rapidly changing conditions in Egypt, it is informative to look at the arc of US foreign...
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Petraeus, Spox Smith Lie Again When Confronted With Afghan Civilian Deaths,...
Rear Admiral Gregory J. Smith (US Navy photo) In a meeting Sunday at the presidential palace in Kabul to investigate reports of multiple civilian deaths in a US operation in Konar province, General...
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Karzai Rejects US Apologies on Civilian Deaths, Gates Suddenly Appears
DoD photo of General David Petreaus greeting Secretary Gates on his arrival in Afghanistan on Monday. Over the weekend, Afghan President Hamid Karzai informed General David Petraeus that US apologies...
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