take Crocker with you. If you need it, call for back up.”
“December 3, 2006
U.S. Report Finds Fault in Training of Afghan Police
By JAMES GLANZ and DAVID ROHDE
Five years after the fall of the Taliban, a joint report by the Pentagon and the State Department has found that the American-trained police force in Afghanistan is largely […]
Mr. Prager’s fears about using the Koran instead of the Bible certainly awakens a twisted kinship with the Taliban who could not abide having the almost two millennium-old, large statues of the Buddha within Afghanistan’s border. What in heaven’s name would Mr. Prager think if the U.S. Department of the Interior wanted to retrofit […]
From the HUFFINGTONPOST story about the ABC interview with Dick “The Growler” Cheney.
“CHENEY: IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT THE PUBLIC THINKS…”
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DAVE: THIS SUMS IT ALL UP WITH DEPRESSING ACCURACY
‘Michael Hirsch writes in his Newsweek.com column: “Was there any more mind-boggling bit of historic bad luck than what happened after Election Day 2000, when those 537 votes in Florida wobbled, then stayed in George W. Bush’s column? Never mind what kind of president Al Gore would […]
The Associated Press is reporting that “NATO’s top commander in Afghanistan warned on Sunday that a majority of Afghans would likely switch their allegiance to resurgent Taliban militants if their lives show no visible improvements in the next six months.”
This is a distressing statement for many reasons, but the fact that he is talking about […]
It looks as if the Clinton administration did forward an terrorism assessment and information to the Bush administration and its mendacious minions.
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voa.com
Please find the story here.
“Major Metzger vanished in civilian clothes while on an off-duty shopping trip with co-workers at a department store in central Bishkek.”–New York Times
This is the most disturbing line from the Times story about the 3-day-abduction of an Air Force Major for whom the military is conducting an investigation. I had felt a twinge of jingoism–not […]
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Please find article here.
“THE INDEPENDENT
16 July 2006 20:56
Fury as Karzai plans return of Taliban’s religious police
By Tom Coghlan in Kabul
Published: 17 July 2006
The Afghan government has alarmed human rights groups by approving a plan to reintroduce a Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the body which the […]
“Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Afghanistan orders journalists to report more good news
By James Rupert
Newsday
KABUL, Afghanistan — The war against the Taliban has gone badly these last months, but Afghanistan’s national intelligence agency has devised a secret plan to reverse the tide of bad news.”
Please find the entire article here.
May 29, 2006
Pentagon Seeks Nonnuclear Tip for Sub Missiles
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
WASHINGTON, May 28 — The Pentagon is pressing Congress to approve the development of a new weapon that would enable the United States to carry out nonnuclear missile strikes against distant targets within an hour.
The proposal has set off a complex debate about […]
I understand that it was an accident, that innocent people died and that emotions erupted. What I cannot understand is where did that guy get an explosive rock?!
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An Afghan protestor throws a stone at police near a burning
police vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 29, 2006.
A deadly traffic accident Monday involving U.S. troops sparked
the worst […]