29/12/07

Taliban dismisses key southern Afghanistan commander for …
International Herald Tribune – France
AP KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: A key Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan has been dismissed for disobeying the militant group’s rules, a Taliban spokesman …
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/29/asia
/AS-GEN-Afghan-Taliban-Commander.php

Democrats: US should redeploy troops to fight in Pakistan and …
KVOA.com – Tucson,AZ,USA
AP – December 29, 2007 12:33 PM ET WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats say the US should redeploy troops from Iraq so they can fight terrorism in Afghanistan and …
kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=7555225&nav=HMO6HMaW

US Fears Greater Turmoil In Region
Washington Post – United States
US officials fear that a renewed campaign by Islamic militants aimed at the Pakistani government, and based along the border with Afghanistan, …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content
/article/2007/12/28/AR2007122802622.html

Aussie Taliban Goes Free
TIME – USA
Since Hicks was seized by a group of Northern Alliance fighters at a checkpoint in northern Afghanistan two months after the Sept. …
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1698999,00.html

David Hicks: smile of freedom
The Age – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
FORMER Taliban fighter and confessed terrorism supporter David Hicks walked free from jail yesterday — six years after his capture in Afghanistan and seven …
www.theage.com.au/news/national/david-hicks-
smile-of-freedom/2007/12/29/1198778767680.html

2008 critical year for Canada’s Afghanistan mission
Canada.com – Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
OTTAWA — Canada and its allies face a year of reckoning in Afghanistan in a struggle that has now lasted as long as the Second World War and shows little …
www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=
2967a0e0-25e5-46c7-ad72-1a71d149e660&k=4181

Guantanamo Terror Convict Freed
The Associated Press –
Last week, a federal magistrate ruled that Hicks was a security risk because of the training he acknowledged receiving in terrorist camps in Afghanistan. …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iZyTD-nJ-
xU78lYxZMfUmD9flWWAD8TR2OAO0

Portugal to boost military presence in Afghanistan
Xinhua – China
“We know that training of Afghanistan National Army is very important and that is why Portugal will send at the beginning of 2008 a team for training of …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/29/content_7338194.htm

Japan Extends Diet Session to Debate Afghanistan Support Mission
The extension is meant to allow time to pass a bill that would enable the country’s Maritime Self Defense Forces to resume their refueling mission in support of US-led counterterrorism operations in Afghanistan.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/Article.aspx?id=1464

US Should Move Troops From Iraq to Fight in Pakistan, Afghanistan …
The United States should redeploy troops from Iraq, allowing the military to focus on terrorist threats in Pakistan and Afghanistan, New York Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand said in the Democratic radio address.
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_From_Iraq_to_Fight_in_Pakistan_Afghanistan_Congr

The unfinished, almost forgotten war in Afghanistan could get even …
By Joe Sudbay (DC)(John Aravosis (DC))
Bush and his crew are trying to get a handle on the situation in Pakistan and how it affects Afghanistan. If Bush had focused on Afghanistan in 2002 instead of launching the war in Iraq, he might have a handle on the situation. …
www.americablog.com/2007/12/unfin
ished-almost-forgotten-war-in.html

More Troops Going To Afghanistan
By forums@www.military-quotes.com (Team Infidel)
Boston Globe December 29, 2007 WARSAW – Poland will send an additional 400 soldiers to Afghanistan next year, strengthening its commitment to a NATO-led mission aimed at restoring order, Poland’s foreign and defense ministers said …
www.military-quotes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50702

28/12/07

Australian Terror Detainee to Be Released
New York Times – United States
He then made his way to Afghanistan, where Laskhar-i-Taibi had training camps, in affiliation with Al-Qaeda. After the United States begun the war against …
www.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/world/asia/29hicks.html?ref=world

Canadian troops in Afghanistan will feel aftershocks of Bhutto’s …
The Daily News – Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
Seth Jones, a political scientist with the RAND Corporation in Washington who has made more than two dozen trips to Afghanistan, said that taken with…
www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=93083&sc=486

Prisoner of political fortune set free
Sydney Morning Herald – Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Of the hundreds arrested in the early days of the invasion of Afghanistan, Hicks was assigned the designation Detainee 002. John Walker Lindh, the young …
www.smh.com.au/news/national/prisoner-of-politi
cal-fortune-set-free/2007/12/28/1198778703367.html

Poland to bolster forces in Afghanistan
Xinhua – China
28 (Xinhua) — Polish Defense Minister Bogdan Klich said Friday that his country will increase its forces in Afghanistan to 1600 soldiers following the …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/28/content_7332833.htm

Bin Laden message on Iraq expected: monitor
AFP –
… for the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, which killed nearly 3000 people and prompted the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.…
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Guantanamo Terror Convict to Be Set Free
The Associated Press –
The former Outback cowboy had been fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan when he was captured in December 2001 by US-backed forces. …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iZyTD-
nJ-xU78lYxZMfUmD9flWWAD8TQAJ180

Afghanistan, firmly in focus
Boston Globe – United States
But the last two months have seen the release of three films set partially in Afghanistan. That brings to at least seven the list of movies that qualify. …
www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/
2007/12/28/afghanistan_firmly_in_focus

‘Bhutto death may affect Afghanistan strategy’
NEWS.com.au – Australia
THE assassination of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto may impact on Australia’s military involvement in Afghanistan, Federal Opposition Leader …
www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22980210-1702,00.html

Bin Laden to Issue Message on Iraq, US Group Says (Update1)
Bloomberg – USA
There have been no confirmed sightings of bin Laden since he escaped US-led forces in the Tora Bora region of Afghanistan in December 2001. …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206
01087&sid=aYKgyUfJ5IkI&refer=home

Political turmoil threatens Afghanistan relationship
Financial Times – London,England,UK
The death of Benazir Bhutto would paralyse the vital strategic relationship between Afghanistan and Pakistan and attempts to tackle cross-border terrorism, …
www.ft.com/cms/s/63dbf948-b4e6-11dc-990a-0000779fd2ac.html

Poland to Increase Troops in Afghanistan
Warsaw, Dec 28 (Prensa Latina) Poland Defense Minister Bogdan Klich announced on Friday that Poland would send 400 other troops to Afghanistan, where it maintains 200 soldiers.
www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B5F65FC39-
7C67-44CB-A729-62A053841C74%7D&language=EN

Poland to send additional 400 troops to Afghanistan
Poland’s government is expected to send 400 additional troops to its mission in Afghanistan, a move of increased importance amid destabilization in neighboring Pakistan, the nation’s defense minister said Friday. …
www.terrorism.com/modules.php?op=
modload&name=News&file=article&sid=85122

Blocked roads threaten food security in Afghanistan
Heavy snowfall has blocked roads to at least 10 districts in Badakhshan Province, northeastern Afghanistan, Monshi Abdul Majid, the governor of Badakhshan, told IRIN on 27 December. About 200000 people are estimated to be living in the …
yubanet.com/world/Blocked_roads_thre
aten_food_security_in_Afghanistan.php

27/12/07

Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan encouraged to face mortality issue
The Canadian Press –
GUNDY GHAR, Afghanistan – Soldiers from Valcartier, Que., took a course before they’re deployed to Afghanistan – it’s called “The Warrior and Death. …
canadianpress.google.com/article/AL
eqM5gxzZ8AFksM4GSSpt29taa1LhGUEA

Beyond the battlelines, is peace a possibility?
The Age – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Conversely, the shadow of Afghanistan has lengthened. The conflicts in Iraq, however appalling, have become commonplace and, in the process, less news and …
www.theage.com.au/news/editorial/beyond-the-battlelines
-is-peace-a-possibility/2007/12/27/1198345158130.html

Rudy: Step up Afghanistan efforts
MSNBC – USA
Giuliani told veterans Thursday that the events should make the United States consider redoubling its efforts in Afghanistan and should remind the world …
firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/12/27/535240.aspx

Two senior diplomats expelled from Afghanistan
Christian Science Monitor – Boston,MA,USA
By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar A senior United Nations official and the acting head of the European Union’s mission in Afghanistan were expelled from the…
www.csmonitor.com/2007/1227/p99s01-duts.html

Afghanistan expels two in “talk-to-the-Taliban” row
Euronews.net – Lyon,France
A diplomatic row between Afghanistan and its main aid partners has seen a Briton and an Irishman expelled for talking to the Taliban. …
www.euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=461659&lng=1

Afghanistan expels 2 Western officials
Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada
KABUL-A diplomatic row erupted yesterday between Afghanistan and key aid partners after Kabul declared persona non grata a Briton and an Irishman working …
www.thestar.com/SpecialSections/article/288895

SANGER, FRESNO COUNTY / Airman, 24, dies in Afghanistan
San Francisco Chronicle – CA, USA
An airman from Sanger died Christmas Eve at an air base in Afghanistan in a“non-combat-related incident,” the Department of Defense reported Wednesday. …
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
f=/c/a/2007/12/27/BA99U547B.DTL

Bush signs $555-billion spending bill
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
But he says Congress inserted too many special projects into the legislation and didn’t provide enough money for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. …
www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na
-bush27dec27,1,748780.story?coll=la-news-a_section

Hillier’s popularity backfires on Tories
Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada
Rick Hillier is more than the most visible military leader in decades and the Canadian face on the Afghanistan war. He’s also a prototype new mandarin; …
www.thestar.com/columnists/article/288876

Diplomats expelled from Afghanistan
San Jose Mercury News – CA, USA
By FISNIK ABRASHI AP Writer Aleem Siddique, a spokesman for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) speaks during an interview …
www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_7817631

Expelled EU, UN officials leave Afghanistan
A senior United Nations official and another from the European Union (EU) have left Afghanistan after the Government ordered their expulsion, accusing them of holding talks with the Taliban and for paying cash to the group.
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/12/28/2128002.htm

UNICEF Photo of Year Shows Child Marriage in Afghanistan
By Jeff Fecke
The image, which was taken by American photographer Stephanie Sinclair in Afghanistan, shows future husband and wife Mohammed and Ghulam. According to a statement by UNICEF, the parents told…
www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/12/27/unic
ef-photo-of-year-shows-child-marriage-in-afghanistan

Father Of Dead Afghanistan Soldier Says Talk To Taliban
The father of a British soldier killed in Afghanistan has urged diplomats to talk to the Taliban.
news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1298462,00.html?f=rss

Diplomats expelled by Afghanistan
By Basant1
Two diplomats accused by Afghan officials of making contacts with the Taleban have left the country after talks to stop their expulsions failed. Channel: News Tags: News.politics Afghanistan.
news.propeller.com/story/2007/12/2
7/diplomats-expelled-by-afghanistan