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July 2008
- Brzezinski Down on Idea of Afghan 'Surge'
  
  newser | Huffington Post | 38 minutes ago
  
  The presidential candidates seem to agree that Afghanistan needs a troop surge, but Zbigniew Brzezinski doesn’t. Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, now a Barack Obama backer, says he's concerned that the US is “literally running the risk of unintentionally doing what the Russians did,” and being perceived as an invading force, the Huffington Post reports. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Afghanistan • Rudy Giuliani • Chuck Hagel • civilian casualties • Joe Lieberman • Richard Lugar • Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Obama and Sarkozy Rendezvous in Paris
  
  newser | AFP | 3 hours, 19 minutes ago
  
  Barack Obama received an enthusiastic Paris reception today from President Nicolas Sarkozy, who said, “The French have been following him with passion”—and that the Democrat’s “adventure … rings true in the hearts in minds” of his country. The two men discussed cooperation on climate change, Iran and Afghanistan, AFP reports, before holding a jovial joint press conference. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iran • Afghanistan • climate change • Nicolas Sarkozy • french fries
- In Jordan, Obama Urges Iraq-to-Afghanistan Shift
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 22, 08 11:29 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama said today that, with improved security in Iraq, the US should turn its attention to Afghanistan. “There is security progress, but now we need a political solution” in Iraq, Obama said in Amman, Jordan—in his first news conference abroad, the AP reports. Afghanistan, the “central front in the war against terrorism,” is in “a deteriorating situation." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • George W. Bush • Afghanistan • Nouri al-Maliki • David Petraeus • troop withdrawal • Iraq exit strategy • Jordan
- Archeologists Uncover Treasures Via Google Earth
  
  newser | Sydney Morning Herald | Jul 21, 08 3:34 AM CDT
  
  Google Earth has made detailed satellite imagery readily accessible to planetary voyeurs—but academics are also using it to get things done in ways never before possible. A team of university archeologists are uncovering hundreds of sites in the Afghan desert that might never have been discovered on foot, reports the Sydney Morning Herald . More »
  
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  Afghanistan • Google Earth • desert • archeology
- Obama Declares Afghanistan 'Precarious and Urgent'
  
  newser | USA Today | Jul 20, 08 1:41 PM CDT
  
  Calling the situation in Afghanistan "precarious and urgent," Barack Obama today urged the Bush administration to make Afghanistan—rather than Iraq—"the central front in our battle against terrorism." In his first interview since arriving in the country yesterday, the Democratic candidate told Lara Logan on Face the Nation that an additional two brigades were needed to combat insurgents and the drug trade that finances them, USA Today reports. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq war • Pakistan • Afghanistan • al-Qaeda • Taliban • US military • Hamid Karzai • Kabul • Afghanistan war
- Obama Meets Afghan Prez
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 20, 08 7:18 AM CDT
  
  World-touring Barack Obama sat down with Hamid Karzai today, joining the Afghan president for lunch at his Kabul palace. Although Obama criticized the leader's government as recently as last week, he expected to steer clear of arguments in today's meeting, Reuters reports. "I'm more interested in listening than doing a lot of talking," he said before his US departure. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Afghanistan • foreign policy • Hamid Karzai • Kabul
- Obama Meets Afghan Leaders, Reiterates Support
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 19, 08 2:03 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama met today with officials from one of Afghanistan’s most hard-fought regions, the AP reports, and re-iterated his commitment to intensifying US efforts there if elected president. Together with Chuck Hagel and Jack Reed, Obama visited Jalalabad Air Field in Nangarhar province. Nangarhar lies next to the Pakistani border, and has come under intense Taliban attacks, a former warlord told Obama’s delegation. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Pakistan • Afghanistan • Taliban • US military • Chuck Hagel • Jack Reed
- Obama Arrives in Afghanistan
  
  newser | CNN | Jul 19, 08 5:58 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama touched down in Afghanistan today to begin a trip to the Middle East and Europe, CNN reports. The Illinois senator, whose whereabouts have been under wraps since he left Washington on Thursday, made a stop in Kuwait, where he visited US troops, his campaign said. He plans to speak with top commanders in both Afghanistan and Iraq, to get a sense of what "their biggest concerns are," he told a pool reporter before his departure, and to "thank our troops for the heroic work that they've been doing." More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • Afghanistan • Hamid Karzai
- 8 Afghan Civilians Killed in US-Led Airstrike
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 17, 08 7:22 AM CDT
  
  Eight civilians were killed in a coalition airstrike targeting suspected militants in Afghanistan's western province of Farah, Reuters reports. The deaths occurred after American-led forces called for air backup during a roadside firefight Tuesday. A military statement said that officials "deeply regret any occurrence such as this." There were reports of more civilian casualties in another airstrike today. More »
  
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  Afghanistan • airstrike • civilian casualties • Afghanistan war • coalition forces • civilians
- McCain Adopts Obama's Afghanistan Position
  
  newser | Huffington Post | Jul 15, 08 5:12 PM CDT
  
  John McCain suddenly switched both schedule and policy today, transforming a speech about jobs into one on Afghanistan, and echoing Barack Obama's argument for sending in new brigades. Obama has long said more troops are needed in Afghanistan, but McCain has repeatedly contended that NATO should pick up the slack, the Huffington Post reports. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Afghanistan • surge • flip flop • Joint Chiefs of Staff • troop levels
- Obama: Swift End to Iraq War Will Strengthen Security
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 15, 08 8:39 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama will promise a swift end to the Iraq war in a major speech today, arguing that the ongoing conflict “distracts us from every threat that we face,” according to excerpts obtained by Politico. As president, Obama would take the fight to al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. “The central front in the war on terror is not Iraq,” he says, “and it never was.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • election 2008 • Iraq war • Afghanistan • Obama 2008 • Iraq exit strategy • speech
- Taliban Shows Fresh Fangs in US Base Attack
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 14, 08 3:17 PM CDT
  
  The Taliban demonstrated complex tactics and a renewed taste for conventional warfare in the attack on a remote outpost that claimed the lives of nine US soldiers yesterday, Reuters reports. The militants drove the residents from a nearby village and used it as a base of operations from which to launch their offensive, which briefly breached the outpost’s defenses. More »
  
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  Pakistan • Afghanistan • Taliban • US Army • NATO • suicide bombing • warfare
- Obama to Meet With Abbas During Mideast Swing
  
  newser | CNN | Jul 14, 08 2:53 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama will visit Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank next week, a top Palestinian official said today. The Ramallah meeting with the president of the Palestinian Authority will happen on July 23, CNN reports. Details on the international trip have been guarded, but the Times of London says Obama will touch down in London this Friday, continue to Israel, Jordan, Afghanistan and Iraq—and finish in France and Germany on the 24th and 25th. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • Israel • Afghanistan • France • Germany • London • Mahmoud Abbas • West Bank • Chuck Hagel • Jordan • Jack Reed
- New McCain Attack: Obama Wants to Lose War
  
  newser | Talking Points Memo | Jul 14, 08 1:57 PM CDT
  
  John McCain’s inner circle tried a new line of attack against Barack Obama today, charging that the presumptive Democratic nominee and his entire party want to lose the Iraq war to serve their own political purposes. Said McCain’s top foreign policy hand, “Senator Obama seems to think losing a war will help him to win an election.” More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • John McCain • Afghanistan • Harry Reid • patriotism • Lindsey Graham
- Obama Stands By Plan for 16-Month Drawdown in Iraq
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 14, 08 7:42 AM CDT
  
  Calling Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki's demand for a timetable for US withdrawal an "enormous opportunity," Barack Obama lays out his plan for ending the war in Iraq in a New York Times op-ed piece. The presumptive Democratic nominee reiterates his support for a careful withdrawal over 16 months, leaving behind a "residual force" which would perform limited missions. "The good news is that Iraq’s leaders want to take responsibility for their country by negotiating a timetable for the removal of American troops," he writes. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • Iraq • Iraq war • Afghanistan • Nouri al-Maliki • War on Terror • Iraq exit strategy
- 9 US Troops Die in Afghan Attack; Suicide Bomb Kills 24
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 13, 08 12:31 PM CDT
  
  A multi-pronged militant assault on a remote US base killed nine American soldiers and wounded 15 today in the deadliest attack on US forces in Afghanistan in 3 years, officials said. The attack came the same day a suicide bomber targeting a police patrol killed 24 people, while US coalition and Afghan soldiers killed 40 militants elsewhere in the south. More »
  
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  Afghanistan • Taliban • prostitution • suicide bombing • suicide bomber • Helmand province
- US Weighs Faster Iraq Withdrawal
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 13, 08 7:29 AM CDT
  
  US officials in Washington and Baghdad may pull as many as three brigades from Iraq by the time George Bush leaves office, the New York Times reports. The move, driven in part by a need to bolster the American presence in Afghanistan, could remove far more troops than seemed likely just months ago, and would mark a major shift in policy from the past few years. More »
  
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  Iraq • John McCain • George W. Bush • Iraq war • Afghanistan • US military • troop withdrawal • Iraq pullout
- Kabul Bomb Kills 41 at Indian Embassy
  
  newser | CNN | Jul 7, 08 4:52 AM CDT
  
  A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb outside the Indian embassy in Kabul today, killing 41 people and injuring 141. Several diplomats were among the dead, as well as children, security guards and visa seekers on the crowded street in the Afghan capital, reports CNN. The huge blast was the deadliest attack in Kabul this year. More »
  
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  Afghanistan • India • suicide bombing • car bomb • Kabul
- Karzai Orders Inquiry Into Fatal US Airstrike
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 6, 08 12:06 PM CDT
  
  Afghan President Hamid Karzai today ordered an investigation into a US-led airstrike on Friday that killed 15 people. At issue is whether the victims were armed Taliban, as the US military claims, or the innocent civilians that an Afghan governor believes died. More »
  
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  Afghanistan • Taliban • military • investigation • Hamid Karzai • airstrike • civilian casualties
- Obama Restates Iraqi Plan After Charges of Flip-Flop
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 3, 08 10:57 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama today reaffirmed his commitment to withdraw American troops from Iraq in 16 months, hours after being accused of backtracking on that pledge. Obama triggered a flurry of speculation—and ridicule from the McCain camp—by saying earlier in the day he might "refine" his war policies after speaking with military leaders. After the brouhaha, he called a second press conference to insist that the 16-month time line remains his goal, the Wall Street Journal reports. More »
  
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  Barack Obama • John McCain • Iraq war • Afghanistan • troop withdrawal • Susan Rice

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