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N ATO commanders have changed Canada's area of responsibility in Afghanistan. Brig. Gen. Frederick Hodges, director of operations for NATO's southern command, says Canada will take control of the Arghandab district north of Kandahar city. Full Article at Globe and Mail
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His expected talk on the end of the war is meant to spark Afghans to take charge of their own country - and to soothe anti-war Democrats here. Full Article at Belleville News-Democrat
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - With U.S. President Barack Obama set to announce a new strategy for Afghanistan, NATO commanders have changed Canada's area of responsibility in the country. Brig. Full Article at Macleans.ca
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US PRESIDENT Barack Obama will today tell the American public he plans to deploy two extra brigades to Afghanistan, adding 34,000 troops in an effort to salvage the war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Full Article at The Age
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LONDON: The US is seeking to extend its control over the day-to-day running of Afghanistan with the appointment of an international ''high representative'' in Kabul in an attempt to bypass Hamid Karzai's much-criticised government. Full Article at Sydney Morning Herald
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WEST POINT, N.Y. , Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has been outlining his plans for to world leaders ahead of a speech to the American public on the subject. Full Article at United Press International
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President Obama will announce his decision on Afghanistan strategy Tuesday night in West Point, New York. Full Article at CNN
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NAIROBI, Kenya - The commander of the EU Naval Force tells The Associated Press that an oil tanker hijacked by Somali pirates was traveling outside a recommended maritime corridor. Full Article at Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor
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As cliched as it is, it’s true: the most difficult decision any president must make is whether to send American men and women to war. Full Article at Atlanta Journal Constitution Blogs
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WASHINGTON (CBS News) ― New infusions of U.S. Marines will begin moving into Afghanistan almost as soon as President Obama announces a redrawn battle strategy, a plan widely expected to include more than 30,000 additional U.S. forces. Full Article at WCCO
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HELSINKI, Finland, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- "In the end China went her own way as if the Americans had never come." Full Article at United Press International
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Using flares and hoses, the crew of a Greek oil tanker fought off a pirate attack Tuesday in the Arabian Sea two days after brigands seized a tanker bound for the United States with $20 million of crude oil. Full Article at Centre Daily Times
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Afghans displaced by war blame "American oppression" for their plightMan: "The Taliban shoot one bullet; the Americans bombard entire village"In Kabul, some Afghans fear civil war if international troops withdrawAfghans say more focus needed on... Full Article at CNN
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Dec 1 (Reuters) - The highest U.N. court started nine days of hearings on Tuesday to scrutinise Serbia's challenge to the legality of Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence. Full Article at Reuters Alert Net
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A U.S. Army soldier communicates with an Afghan villager (U.S. Army photo) An official with the Afghan government’s human rights commission is blasting an important new U.S. military initiative in Afghanistan as a potential road to warlordism. Full Article at The Washington Independent
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The waiting will soon be over. Later today, the President Obama is expected to order around 34,000 troops into battle, including into Helmand province. Full Article at Spectator Magazine
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Selling war to Americans has never been easy or simple – and rarely straightforward. Lincoln's address at Gettysburg, generally considered America's finest oration, fell flat at the time and was widely considered uninspiring. Full Article at Politics Daily
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((For more on Afghanistan, click on: [ID:nAFPAK])) Dec 1 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is preparing to announce on Tuesday he will send about 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan in a long-awaited war strategy shift he hopes will defeat the... Full Article at Reuters Alert Net
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President Obama will outline Tuesday his intention to send an additional 34,000 US troops to Afghanistan, according to US officials and diplomatic sources briefed Monday as Obama began informing allies of his plan. Full Article at Small Wars Journal
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French policemen arrest sympathizers of a group called NATO-Afghanistan after an action against 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' a...
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French policemen arrest sympathizers of a group called NATO-Afghanistan as they were leaving after an action against 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 ye...
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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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Admiral James Stavridis, NATO�s recently appointed Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), delivers an address on �NATO: A bridge to the Future� at the Royal United Services Institute, in London, on October 2, 2009.
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As we agreed when we met, it is now critical that we establish a much fairer burden sharing arrangement in Afghanistan, across NATO and the coalition
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What de Waal doesn't get—because he knows almost nothing about Afghanistan—is that the CIA-cashwads-for-commanders scheme is a large part of why the Taliban are now winning strategically, while NATO, with its overwhelming tactical advantage, is losing.
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I believe that next week we will see the American government and the rest of NATO coming together in a strategy that will mean we will have the forces that are necessary so we can create the space for a political solution in Afghanistan
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I believe that next week we will see the American government and the rest of NATO coming together in a strategy that will mean we will have the forces that are necessary
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Obama's role is not only for India, his role is first for his country's national interest and both in terms of NATO commitment and in terms of what Afghanistan needs. As far as India is concerned, we are active in the developmental work in Afghanistan
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small and light enough to enable Iran's latest rocket systems to target NATO's southeastern members.
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That is something that cannot be discounted ... If we can get more [NATO troops], that would help us … to sort of focus much more of our efforts in the south, which seems to be the hotbed of Taliban activity. But if indeed we add more forces, it would be expected that our allies would find a way to do t...
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Well, I doubt it, although I’m hearing that NATO countries, our allies in Europe, may actually provide a few more troops than expected.
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may have a political objective. It is meant to set up an alternative center of military consolidation for West European projects, a center which could embrace former Soviet republics (above all Ukraine), now outside NATO. There is no doubt who will control this process, considering U.S. influence in Pol...
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Poland and Lithuania want to forge military cooperation with Ukraine to try to bring the former Soviet republic closer to NATO.
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voiced concern about Georgia’s ongoing push for muscle-flexing amid efforts by Israel, Ukraine and NATO countries to re-arm the Saakashvili regime.
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The Georgian delegation also included Deputy Foreign Minister Giga Bokeria and Deputy Defense Minister Nikoloz Vashakidze. A meeting of the NATO-Georgia Commission at the ambassadorial level was also held in Brussels.
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NATO should defend Azerbaijan
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Armenia’s releasing the occupied Azerbaijani territories [Nagorno Karabakh] will create a security zone in the South Caucasus and pave the way for NATO’s cooperation with this region.
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Ukraine, provided it has made significant domestic reforms and has become identified as a Central European country, should also be ready for initial negotiations with the EU and NATO
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The credibility of NATO will be decided in Afghanistan. If NATO can be successful with what was a success in the Balkans and Iraq, its deterrent potential will rise, and it is in Poland’s national interest.
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The credibility of NATO will be decided in Afghanistan. If NATO can be successful with what was a success in the Balkans and Iraq, its deterrent potential will rise, and it is in Poland’s national interest.
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I met with Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister, my old counterpart at the United Nations and a close friend. I met with members of the Ministry of Defense and reassured them that the United States does not seek a permanent NATO presence in Afghanistan
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In Afghanistan, our soldiers have to work in very severe conditions with soldiers from other NATO countries. They need to be ready for this. That's what exercises are for
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The U.S. military ... and NATO officials have authorized their forces to kill or capture individuals on the list, which was drafted within the past year as part of NATO’s new strategy to combat drug operations that finance the Taliban.
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office in Ottawa ‘ scripted and fed ’ the precise wording NATO officials in Kabul used to repudiate allegations of abuse ‘at a time when it was privately and generally acknowledged in our office that the chances of good treatment at the hands of Afghan security forces were almost zero.’ ... It was not a...
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The immediate question is, How do you define the active pursuit of military objectives in a country with which not only have you not declared war but that is supposedly a front-line non-NATO ally in the US struggle to contain extremist violence coming out of Afghanistan and the border regions of Afghani...
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If, in a UN sanctioned mission, carried out by NATO, Britain were to unilaterally pull out, where does that leave Britain as a strategic partner in the future? Where does that leave us? If you want to be in the third division, that's the way to go about it.
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I'm very optimistic. We've identified what our needs are and we're bringing those back to NATO to get nations to contribute and we've already seen in this run-up, a significant number of people coming in with exactly the right skills
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Now, Canada is one of the 10 or 12 most important countries in the world. Harper is well-respected, and Canada is entirely credible in promoting reforms of international institutions of which it was a co-founder, such as NATO, the United Nations and the IMF.
SOURCE: National Post
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