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We know we've got to work more closely with both Afghanistan and Pakistan to try to root out the infrastructure of terrorism that continues to recruit and train people who are willing to do what is alleged with Zazi, David Headley, and others in the recent cases that have come to light
SOURCE: Zee News -
The potential global impact of instability in a nuclear armed Pakistan dwarfs anything that is likely to happen in Afghanistan
SOURCE: Zee News -
We must work together in stopping people throwing bombs and killing innocent people. That's the world's challenge, and it means Afghanistan, Pakistan and India must cooperate to reduce the violence and eliminate the tensions
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The result has been both popular disaffection and a backlash from clerics in Muslim countries who have issued fatwas against the killing of other Muslims, notably in Iraq, although I note that this has yet to happen on a large scale in Afghanistan
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The coming troop increase in Afghanistan will further reduce al Qaeda's capabilities and those of other extremist organisations. The Pakistani military has been working to eliminate militant strongholds in its territory. As a result, al Qaeda is finding it tougher to raise money, train recruits, and pla...
SOURCE: Zee News -
On any given day, al Qaeda remains the foremost security threat the nation faces. Yet having said that, it is clear that for al Qaeda, it has been a difficult period. The group is under severe pressure in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the US and its allies have succeeded in severely degrading its oper...
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I don't know if that's a question without an answer, but I just give it to you because I remember that as a practical fear, based on the presence of all the training camps and centers of world terrorism in the Pakistan/ Afghanistan area
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I have identified just over 60 Piru residents, either current or former, that are still living, that have served or are serving in our military forces ... Some go back as far as World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and as currently as the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.
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Indeed, the level of violence and number of violent civilian deaths in Iraq were vastly higher than we have seen in Afghanistan.
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Nonetheless, as with Iraq, in Afghanistan, hard is not hopeless
SOURCE: The Age -
While certainly different and, in some ways tougher than Iraq, Afghanistan is no more hopeless than Iraq was when I took command there in February 2007
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We know we've got to work more closely with both Afghanistan and Pakistan to try to root out the infrastructure of terrorism that continues to recruit and train people
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The president will address the notion that last week he authorised a 30,000-person increase in our commitment to Afghanistan, and this week accepts a prize for peace
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The Taliban have threatened to retaliate against South Korea for its decision to send troops back into Afghanistan. A statement e-mailed to media outlets late Wednesday said that South Korea’s leaders ’should be prepared for the consequence of their action, which they will certainly face.’ South Korea h...
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You cause the network to collapse on itself ... And that's what I saw happen in Iraq, and that's one of the things we're working on in Afghanistan.
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It's a sheer violation of the agreement they had made with us. Now under pressure from the United States, the South Korean government has announced to send 500 additional troops to Afghanistan. This means they backtracked on their commitment and will fight against us
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Achieving progress in Afghanistan will be hard and the progress there likely will be slower in developing than was the progress achieved in Iraq ... likely to get harder before it gets easier.
SOURCE: Global Research -
four in 10 said the economy is their top concern. Seventeen percent cited health care, and 16 percent said that Afghanistan and Iraq are the country's biggest problems.
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The risk is that we will expend tens of billions of dollars fighting in a strategically less important Afghanistan, while Taliban and al-Qaida leaders become increasingly secure in Pakistan
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Afghānistān, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, Persian: جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان), is a landlocked country located at the heart of Asia. Full Article
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An internally displaced Afghan family sits inside their tent in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 26, 2009. According to UNHCR some 2.7 million registered Afghans refugees still remain in Pakistan and Iran.
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HAZI MADAD, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 26: Afghan Pashtun tribal elders leave after a traditional meeting to discuss American and Canadian military actions on their lands October 26, 2009 in the village of Hazi Madad in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
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HAZI MADAD, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 26: Afghan Pashtun tribal elders sit in a traditional meeting to discuss American and Canadian military actions on their lands October 26, 2009 in the village of Hazi Madad in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
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HAZI MADAD, AFGHANISTAN - OCTOBER 26: Afghan Pashtun tribal elders sit in a traditional meeting to discuss American and Canadian military actions on their lands October 26, 2009 in the village of Hazi Madad in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan.
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In this photo taken Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009, Afghan women clad in burqas listen to a fortune teller in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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An Afghan man reads holy Quran as he sits next to the grave of his relative in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 16, 2009. Insurgent violence has increased across Afghanistan this year, coinciding with a boost in U.S. military numbers.
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An Afghan boy reads the holy Quran as he sits next to the grave of his relative in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 16, 2009.
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Afghanistan's Chief of the General Staff Gen. Bismullah Mohammadi, right,walks with Chief of the Defence Staff, Gen. Walt Natynczyk, as they arrive to inspect the honor guard at National Defence headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, on Thursday Oct. 8, 2009.
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On the eighth anniversary of the Afghanistan invasion, members of the Washington Metropolitan Police Department stand guard in front of an Armed Forces Recruiting Center in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009, after workers discovered the building was vandalized earlier in the morning.
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Sympathizers of a group called NATO-Afghanistan demonstrate in a French Army site in Paris on October 7, 2009,and threw paint and stickers in the lobby, eight years to the day since the start of military action to oust the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, to denounce 'eight years of destr...
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Sympathizers of a group called NATO-Afghanistan demonstrate in front of a French Army site in Paris on October 7, 2009, eight years to the day since the start of military action to oust the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, to denounce 'eight years of destruction' and calling for the withd...
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On the eighth anniversary of the Afghanistan invasion, an Air Force recruiter, second from left, talks with recruits in front of an Armed Forces Recruiting Center in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009.
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An Afghan man reads the Koran at a mosque in Kabul on October 27, 2009. Afghanistan's presidential rivals are reigniting their campaigns for a second vote, but analysts question whether a new election can be credible as calls for a government of national unity persist.
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We know we've got to work more closely with both Afghanistan and Pakistan to try to root out the infrastructure of terrorism that continues to recruit and train people who are willing to do what is alleged with Zazi, David Headley, and others in the recent cases that have come to light
SOURCE: Zee News -
The potential global impact of instability in a nuclear armed Pakistan dwarfs anything that is likely to happen in Afghanistan
SOURCE: Zee News -
We must work together in stopping people throwing bombs and killing innocent people. That's the world's challenge, and it means Afghanistan, Pakistan and India must cooperate to reduce the violence and eliminate the tensions
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The result has been both popular disaffection and a backlash from clerics in Muslim countries who have issued fatwas against the killing of other Muslims, notably in Iraq, although I note that this has yet to happen on a large scale in Afghanistan
SOURCE: Zee News -
The coming troop increase in Afghanistan will further reduce al Qaeda's capabilities and those of other extremist organisations. The Pakistani military has been working to eliminate militant strongholds in its territory. As a result, al Qaeda is finding it tougher to raise money, train recruits, and pla...
SOURCE: Zee News -
On any given day, al Qaeda remains the foremost security threat the nation faces. Yet having said that, it is clear that for al Qaeda, it has been a difficult period. The group is under severe pressure in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where the US and its allies have succeeded in severely degrading its oper...
SOURCE: Zee News -
I don't know if that's a question without an answer, but I just give it to you because I remember that as a practical fear, based on the presence of all the training camps and centers of world terrorism in the Pakistan/ Afghanistan area
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I have identified just over 60 Piru residents, either current or former, that are still living, that have served or are serving in our military forces ... Some go back as far as World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and as currently as the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.
SOURCE: Ventura County Star -
Indeed, the level of violence and number of violent civilian deaths in Iraq were vastly higher than we have seen in Afghanistan.
SOURCE: Sydney Morning Herald -
Nonetheless, as with Iraq, in Afghanistan, hard is not hopeless
SOURCE: The Age -
While certainly different and, in some ways tougher than Iraq, Afghanistan is no more hopeless than Iraq was when I took command there in February 2007
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We know we've got to work more closely with both Afghanistan and Pakistan to try to root out the infrastructure of terrorism that continues to recruit and train people
SOURCE: Webindia123 -
The president will address the notion that last week he authorised a 30,000-person increase in our commitment to Afghanistan, and this week accepts a prize for peace
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The Taliban have threatened to retaliate against South Korea for its decision to send troops back into Afghanistan. A statement e-mailed to media outlets late Wednesday said that South Korea’s leaders ’should be prepared for the consequence of their action, which they will certainly face.’ South Korea h...
SOURCE: Rational Review -
You cause the network to collapse on itself ... And that's what I saw happen in Iraq, and that's one of the things we're working on in Afghanistan.
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It's a sheer violation of the agreement they had made with us. Now under pressure from the United States, the South Korean government has announced to send 500 additional troops to Afghanistan. This means they backtracked on their commitment and will fight against us
SOURCE: Rantburg -
Achieving progress in Afghanistan will be hard and the progress there likely will be slower in developing than was the progress achieved in Iraq ... likely to get harder before it gets easier.
SOURCE: Global Research -
four in 10 said the economy is their top concern. Seventeen percent cited health care, and 16 percent said that Afghanistan and Iraq are the country's biggest problems.
SOURCE: Creators Syndicate -
The risk is that we will expend tens of billions of dollars fighting in a strategically less important Afghanistan, while Taliban and al-Qaida leaders become increasingly secure in Pakistan
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This may mean then that Afghanistan is being used as a base of operations to fly covert surveillance missions over Iran, who do have radar based ground-to-air missiles.
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It will be important ... to withhold judgment on the success or failure of the strategy in Afghanistan until next December, as (President Barack Obama) has counseled.
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That theater has unique characteristics that are far different from the characteristics of Iraq ... The cultures are different. As far as economically, Iraq is more advanced than Afghanistan.
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Why did Obama accept the Nobel Peace Prize when he had already decided to take the war in Afghanistan to its ultimate limit?
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Reversing the Taliban’s momentum is essential to the effort to degrade and defeat al-Qaida ... The Taliban we are fighting in Afghanistan today is the same organization that sheltered and supported Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida as they planned the 9/11 attacks. The relationship between these groups remai...
SOURCE: GlobalSecurity.org
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