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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Afghanistan

Afghanistan stories: 826 news summaries

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 Iraq, Afghan War Reporter Said to Be a Spy

... or so Gawker thinks

Oct 26, 09 3:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - A war correspondent whose rescues in the Mideast have cost several lives is a spy for Washington, Gawker claims, declining to name names or reveal, for "blazingly obvious reasons," the sources for this report, except to say that they are current and former special forces troops. "We... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • military • spy • journalist • war correspondent

Karzai's Rival
May Boycott
Runoff Vote

Abdullah demands
overhaul of Afghan
election commission

Oct 26, 09 1:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s strongest political challenger may boycott next month's planned runoff election if the country’s election commission is not completely purged of Karzai supporters. Abdullah Abdullah has consistently charged that without a commission overhaul the vote-rigging which marred the original election is bound to be repeated.... More »

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Afghanistan • United Nations • Hamid Karzai • disputed election • election • Abdullah Abdullah • Afghanistan election

 Obama Leans to 
 Modified McChrystal Plan 

Not buying Biden strategy as sufficient, without some troops

Oct 24, 09 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Gen. Stanley McChrystal looks less and less likely to walk away empty handed, the Wall Street Journal predicts, as President Obama moves towards a "hybrid" strategy in Afghanistan that would combine troop increases with the special ops approach supported by the vice president. One scenario would see 10,000... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • Joe Biden • Stanley McChrystal

 Blasts in Pakistan Kill 24 

Insurgents his air force facility, bus headed to wedding

Oct 23, 09 5:48 AM CDT
(AP) - A suicide bomber killed seven people near a major air force complex in northwest Pakistan today, while an explosion killed 17, including three children, on a bus heading to a wedding elsewhere in the region. The attacks are the latest in a surge of militant strikes this month, coinciding with... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • insurgents • al-Qaeda • South Waziristan • terror attack

 White House: 
 Cheney's the 
 Irresponsible One 

He helped get us into mess, Pelosi adds

Oct 23, 09 4:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - What  Dick Cheney calls dithering, "President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform and to the American public," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said yesterday, rejecting Cheney's charge that the Obama adminstration is taking too long to decide its Afghanistan strategy. "... More »

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Afghanistan • Dick Cheney • US military • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • Robert Gibbs

Kristen Breitweiser

 Cheney Is 
 a 'Maniacal' 
 Hypocrite 

He accuses Obama of endangering troops?

Oct 22, 09 12:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney is accusing President Obama of "dithering" on Afghanistan and endangering troops. How rich, writes Kristen Breitweiser. What actually endangers troops "is bad judgment—particularly when exercised by an overzealous, power-hungry, maniacal Vice President like you." Cheney seems to have forgotten that the Iraq war—a... More »

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Afghanistan • Dick Cheney • US military • vice president • Iraq war • Afghanistan war • President Obama

 Clinton Boosts Kerry 
 on Afghan Mission 
 
 

Old rivals appear to forge durable alliance

Oct 22, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton was instrumental in convincing Afghan President Hamid Karzai to accept a runoff election—but it was what she didn’t do that mattered most. She didn’t interfere with erstwhile rival John Kerry’s mission. In fact, sources say, Clinton facilitated the meeting between Kerry and Karzai... More »

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Afghanistan • Hillary Clinton • John Kerry • Hamid Karzai • secretary of State • runoff election • election • Senate Foreign Relations Committee • Obama administration

NICHOLAS KRISTOF

More Troops in Afghanistan
= Angrier Insurgents

Doesn't US remember how our country began? Or how Vietnam ended?

Oct 22, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The United States was born from a nationalist insurgency. “Given that history, you’d think we might be more sensitive to nationalism abroad,” writes Nicholas Kristof. “Yet the most systematic foreign-policy mistake we Americans have made in the post-World War II period has been to underestimate its... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • troop surge • US military • Pashtun • nationalism • insurgency • Nicholas Kristof

Afghanistan strategy

 Obama Uses 
 Troop Bump 
 to Pressure Karzai 




US wants clean election, and could support a coalition government

Oct 22, 09 9:14 AM CDT
(AP) - The US built pressure on Hamid Karzai yesterday, with both Barack Obama and John Kerry signaling that a troop increase could hinge on a successful runoff election, and that the Obama administration would be receptive to a power-sharing deal between Karzai and his chief rival. A coalition government could provide... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • John Kerry • Hamid Karzai • runoff election • Afghanistan war • Afghanistan election

Gates Warns Japan Not to Back Out of Troop Deal

Relationship with Asian ally increasingly strained

Oct 22, 09 9:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - All is not well between the US and Japan. Yesterday Robert Gates warned the country of serious consequences if it backs out of a troop movement deal the two countries spent 10 years negotiating. Japan’s new ruling party wants to reopen those negotiations, as it moves to redefine its... More »

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Afghanistan • China • Japan • Robert Gates • Japanese Defense Force • Democratic Party of Japan • foreign policy

Stop Afghan 'Dithering' as Troops Face Danger: Cheney

'Do what it takes to win,' former VP urges Obama

Oct 21, 09 9:52 PM CDT
(AP) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney tonight accused the White House of dithering over the strategy for the war in Afghanistan and urged President Barack Obama to "do what it takes to win." Cheney, accepting an award from a conservative national security group, added, "Make no mistake. Signals... More »

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Afghanistan • Dick Cheney • Rahm Emanuel • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • President Obama • politics as usual

Poll Numbers

Public Thinks Obama's Clueless on Afghanistan

Deeply divided country leaves president between rock, hard place

Oct 21, 09 8:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - When it comes to the Afghan war, Barack Obama is between a rock and a hard place politically. Only 45% of the public approves of his handling of it, down 10 percentage points from last month, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, and a whopping 63% don’t... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • troop surge • troop levels • Afghanistan war • poll numbers • Stanley McChrystal

UN to Sack Half of Afghan Election Officials

Ban Ki-Moon plans measures to ensure widespread fraud isn't repeated

Oct 21, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The United Nations learned "quite a painful lesson" from the widespread fraud in Afghanistan's August election, and aims to rout out corrupt voting supervisors next time around, Ban Ki-Moon said yesterday. The UN secretary-general said more than half of the election officials should be removed before next month's runoff... More »

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Afghanistan • Hamid Karzai • election fraud • disputed election • Ban Ki-Moon • Abdullah Abdullah • Afghanistan election

ANALYSIS

 Karzai Took Major 
 Arm-Twisting to OK Runoff 

Round 2 of Afghan election no panacea, either

Oct 21, 09 7:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hamid Karzai's concession yesterday that an election runoff was necessary may have brought Afghanistan back from political paralysis, but another ballot is no sure solution. The potential for fraud—more than a quarter of first round ballots were thrown out—has not abated, the New York Times notes. Today Abdullah... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • John Kerry • Gordon Brown • Hamid Karzai • runoff election • Abdullah Abdullah • Afghanistan election

 Afghan Runoff Set for Nov. 7 

Karzai accepts results of UN-backed recount

Oct 20, 09 7:37 AM CDT
(AP) - Afghanistan's election commission has ordered a runoff election for Nov. 7 after a fraud investigation dropped President Hamid Karzai's votes below 50% of the total. Karzai accepted the fraud panel finding in a press conference and endorsed a runoff election. The Independent Election Commission said it did not want to... More »

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Afghanistan • Hamid Karzai • election fraud • runoff election • Afghanistan election

 Karzai Challenger 
 Rejects Plan to 
 Share Power 

Abdullah wants interim government: 'Karzai's term is over'

Oct 20, 09 6:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Abdullah Abdullah, who came in second in the first round of Afghanistan's presidential election, is calling for an interim government to take over the country if it's too difficult or dangerous to organize a runoff in the coming weeks. The challenger to Hamid Karzai also rejected suggestions of a power-sharing... More »

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Afghanistan • Hamid Karzai • runoff election • Abdullah Abdullah • Afghanistan election

 Karzai Accepts 
 UN Recount, 
 Runoff Looms 

Runoff election looms as prez bows to pressure

Oct 20, 09 4:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hamid Karzai will bow to international pressure and accept the results of a UN-backed recount of Afghanistan's presidential election, US and European officials tell the New York Times. The incumbent will publicly acknowledge he fell short of 50% of the first-round vote as early as today, setting the stage for... More »

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Afghanistan • John Kerry • voter fraud • Hamid Karzai • runoff election • Ban Ki-Moon • Abdullah Abdullah • Afghanistan election

 Military Frustrated 
 by 'Slow' Obama 

Commanders irked by ongoing review of Afghanistan strategy

Oct 20, 09 3:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's ongoing review of Afghan strategy is frustrating military officers used to a different commander-in-chief's style, say past and present top brass. Some fear that the long deliberations over Gen. Stanley McChrystal's request for more troops signal weakness and indecision to the enemy, while others fear the president is... More »

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Afghanistan • Pentagon • US military • Afghanistan war • President Obama • Stanley McChrystal

(AP) - Hamid Karzai intends to announce tomorrow how he will "set the stage" for resolving the country's postelection political crisis, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today. She wouldn't say whether the Afghan president has decided to accept the findings of a UN-backed fraud investigation that threw out nearly a... More »

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Afghanistan • Hillary Clinton • United Nations • Hamid Karzai • secretary of State • runoff election • election • Abdullah Abdullah • Afghanistan election

 Taliban Starts 
 YouTube Channel 

But its most disturbing clip was taken down

Oct 19, 09 10:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The jihad has come to YouTube: The Taliban has set up shop on the viral video site, posting two propaganda videos to its “Istqalmedia” channel, Fareed Zakaria noticed over the weekend. One, which you can see here, shows a variety of pastoral scenes set to Pashtun-language music. The other,... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • YouTube • viral video

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