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Max Forte's List: Afghanistan: Occupation and Resistance

  • US Marines train illiterate farmers to be police - Yahoo! News

    • SEBASTIAN ABBOT, Associated Press
    • KHAN NESHIN, Afghanistan – The U.S. Marines were tense looking for bombs buried near a mud compound in this remote farming town in southern Afghanistan. Their new Afghan police colleagues were little help, joking around and sucking on lollipops meant for local kids.
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  • Top UN official in Afghanistan to leave in March - AP

    • DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press
    • KABUL – The top U.N. official in Afghanistan said Friday he will not renew his contract when it expires in March after a two-year tenure marred by controversy over his handling of the country's fraud-marred presidential election and a deadly attack on U.N. workers.
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  • CBC News - Canada - Most Canadians believe Afghan detainees tortured: poll

    Most Canadians oppose extending the mission in Afghanistan.

    www.cbc.ca/...ekos-poll009.html - Preview

    Canada Afghanistan opposition poll on 2009-12-10

    • Thursday, December 10, 2009
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  • Petraeus reveals boost in US counterterror effort - AP

    • ROBERT BURNS and PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press
    • WASHINGTON – The rapid U.S. build up in the Afghan war will include more terrorist-hunting forces to chase down militants deemed too extreme to change sides, a top U.S. general revealed on Wednesday.
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  • Kabul mayor still in office despite conviction - AP

    • DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press
    • KABUL – President Hamid Karzai's promise to fight the rampant graft and bribery plaguing his government has hit a road bump — right down the street from his palace. Despite a corruption conviction, the mayor of Kabul remains in charge of the Afghan capital.
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  • CBC News - World - Afghanistan pullout 'daunting': defence chief

    • Withdrawing all of Canada's troops and equipment from Afghanistan by 2011 will be a “demanding task,” says Gen. Walter Natynczyk, Canada's chief of defence staff.
    • Natynczyk said it's the largest military pullout for Canada since the Korean War and that there’s a wide variety of equipment in Afghanistan, including weapons, ammunition, spare parts material, kitchens and medical facilities.


      He said there are also more than 1,200 vehicles and several thousand sea containers “full of stuff.”

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  • Kucinich: The War Is a Threat to Our National Security | CommonDreams.org

    • December 3, 2009
    • WASHINGTON - December 3 - Following a speech on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement:
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  • Afghanistan: Vietnam all over again

    • By Hugh Gusterson |
      1 December 2009
    • The more people invest in war, the more vindication they seek from it. This is the logic of escalation, the path we have now chosen in Afghanistan. LBJ understood this, and he was broken by it."
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  • Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan | The White House

    • December 01, 2009
    • Eisenhower Hall Theatre, United States Military Academy at West Point, West Point, New York
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  • Is President Obama’s Surge a Trap? by Cynthia McKinney | International Peace Movement

    • Last night, President Obama announced both his decision to add 30,000 U.S. troops to the mire in Afghanistan and his desire to see other countries and N.A.T.O. match his surge. Thanks to U.S. taxpayers, mercenaries will continue to be a part of the foreign presence in Afghanistan. The Republicans support the President’s move and are expected to reward President Obama with the bulk of their Congressional votes to pass his plan.
    • In unprecedented numbers, voters in the United States of all previous political persuasions went to the polls and invested their dreams and, most importantly, their votes in the “hope” and “change” promised by the Obama campaign.
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  • Key to Afghan crisis: tea and education | csmonitor.com

    • Greg Mortenson, author of 'Three Cups of Tea,' says success lies in building trust and schools in rural Afghanistan.

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  • Pakistani News Outlets Condemn Obama’s Plan - At War Blog - NYTimes.com

    • ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — President Obama’s speech at West Point was broadcast here on Wednesday, so coverage and comment in the Pakistani press crested on Thursday. In this nation, where sentiment is strong against America, most of the headlines were ominous.
    • Jang, the most widely read Urdu daily, led with the headline “Approval of increasing drone strikes in Pakistan,” while adding that the United States would “increase pressure on a weak Zardari government” and be “expanding covert operations.”
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  • Clinton says allies can help turn the Afghan tide - AP

    • ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer
    • BRUSSELS – Some two dozen countries will send an estimated 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan next year, the chief of NATO said Friday as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told her allied counterparts that an infusion of forces is crucial to turning the tide in the long war.
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  • US Marines launch large offensive - AP

    • ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU, Associated Press
    • KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S. Marines and Afghan troops Friday launched the first offensive since President Barack Obama announced an American troop surge, striking against Taliban communications and supply lines in a southern insurgent stronghold, a military spokesman said.
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  • CBC News - World - NATO to send more troops to Afghanistan, U.S. envoy predicts

    • Thursday, December 3, 2009
    • "We have been very gratified by the strong support of our European allies for President Obama's policy," Holbrooke, the president's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, told journalists Thursday.
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  • CBC News - World - Canada welcomes U.S. forces boost

    • American forces to augment Canadian troops in Arghandab region
    • Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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  • CBC News - World - Taliban defiant in face of U.S. troop surge

    • Wednesday, December 2, 2009
    • The Taliban vowed to step up their fight in Afghanistan after U.S. President Barack Obama announced 30,000 more American soldiers would go to the country.


      In a message sent via email on Wednesday, the Taliban said their resolve will be strengthened by the increase in foreign troops.

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  • CBC News - World - Afghan strategy proves tough sell on Capitol Hill

    • Wednesday, December 2, 2009
    • U.S. President Barack Obama sent his top guns to Capitol Hill Wednesday to sell his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan — but they had trouble convincing congressional committee members the plan will work.
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