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'Irresponsible'
to Send Troops Without Election Results: Kerry

Says Afghan leadership needs to be in place

Oct 18, 09 7:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US is in no position to send more troops to Afghanistan with that country's presidential election still up in the air, Sen. John Kerry told State of the Union in an interview yesterday. Speaking from Kabul ahead of an announcement on whether a runoff would be held, the Senate... More »

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Afghanistan • John Kerry • Hamid Karzai • runoff election • troop levels • President Obama

 NYT Reporter Recounts 
 7 Months as Prisoner 

David Rohde begins first-person account of capture, escape

Oct 17, 09 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - New York Times reporter David Rohde begins a gripping first-person account of his 7 months as a Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan before he managed to escape. In the first of the five-part series, he writes of his capture ("I waited for the sound of gunfire. I knew I might... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • New York Times • kidnapping • reporter • hostage • David Rohde

OPINION

Balloon Boy Is What's Wrong With Cable News

Popular stories don't need to take up 100% of channels' airtime

Oct 16, 09 1:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - The "balloon boy" non-story was just the latest example of how ridiculous cable news has become, writes Alan Sepinwall. With a war raging in Afghanistan, a jobless “recovery,” and a complex ongoing health care debate, the "news" networks spend hours on nothing at all. The problem... More »

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Afghanistan • entertainment • news • fake news • TV industry • Afghanistan war • cable news • Falcon Heene • balloon boy hoax • Falcon Heene hoax • Wife Swap


 US Pays $400 a Gallon 
 for Gas in Afghanistan 

Figure to become major talking point in Congress

Oct 16, 09 11:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - As debate over the Afghan war heats up, expect Congress to heavily quote a new statistic from the Pentagon: $400. That’s how much the US pays, on average, for every gallon of fuel put into its planes and combat vehicles in Afghanistan, military officials recently told the House Defense... More »

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Afghanistan • John Murtha • fuel • gas prices • Afghanistan war • logistics

 Afghan Election 
 Now Headed 
 for Runoff 

'Stunning' second ballot complicates Obama strategy

Oct 16, 09 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Hamid Karzai's share of the vote in Afghanistan's presidential election has reportedly fallen to about 47% after an investigation into fraudulent ballots—meaning that he will face Abdullah Abdullah in a runoff if the result is finalized today. One Afghan official called the development "stunning," and a... More »

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Afghanistan • Hamid Karzai • runoff election • presidential election • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • Abdullah Abdullah • Afghanistan election

4 American Troops Killed
in Afghan Blast

Deaths bring US death toll to 25 for the month

Oct 16, 09 5:14 AM CDT
(AP) - Four American service members were killed in a bombing in southern Afghanistan yesterday. Two were killed instantly in the blast and two others suffered fatal injuries in the same explosion. Details of the attack, including its location, haven't been released. The deaths bring to 25 the number of American troops... More »

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Afghanistan • US military • casualties • Afghanistan war

 Taliban: Italy Paid Us
 Protection Money

Italian government denies bribing insurgents to leave its troops alone

Oct 16, 09 3:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Italian secret services bribed the Taliban not to attack Italian forces in Afghanistan, according to both a Taliban commander and senior officials in the Afghan government. The accusations have sparked fury in France, which lost 10 soldiers in an ambush after taking over a district east of Kabul from... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Italy • International Security Assistance Force

 Afghan War Costs US 
 $3.6B Per Month 

Figure will go even higher if more troops are sent

Oct 15, 09 9:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Waging a war in Afghanistan ain’t cheap. The US is spending roughly $3.6 billion a month there, according to data from the Congressional Research Service, and that number is likely to rise precipitously as the Obama administration sends more troops. That estimate is based on 51,000 troops;... More »

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Afghanistan • defense spending • war cost • Afghanistan war

Sources: Obama Will Send 40-45K More to Afghanistan

White House denies a decision has made, but UK's move would make more sense

Oct 14, 09 9:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama will announce a troop surge in Afghanistan next week, sources tell the BBC, with Afghanistan’s ambassador to the US saying Obama will commit as many as 45,000. The White House says there’s been no decision, with spokesman Robert Gibbs sniffing that the BBC wouldn’t... More »

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Afghanistan • troop surge • BBC • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • Robert Gibbs • President Obama • Stanley McChrystal • Said Jawad

 Britain to Send 500 More 
 Troops to Afghanistan 

Expects other NATO countries to follow suit

Oct 14, 09 7:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Britain will send 500 more troops to Afghanistan, Gordon Brown is expected to announce today, defying calls to reduce Britain’s presence there. The men will come with strings attached, however: “The prime minister will want assurances from military chiefs that the extra troops will be properly equipped,”... More »

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Afghanistan • Gordon Brown • Britain • troop levels • Helmand province • Afghanistan war

ANALYSIS

Biden's Doubts on Afghan Strategy Wins Allies

VP's calls for a narrowed mission echo increasing pessimism on war

Oct 14, 09 5:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Joe Biden was a lone voice of skepticism on Afghanistan strategy after his fact-finding tour there earlier this year, but many in the White House have gradually swung to his point of view. Biden's perspective that the mission should be narrowed is now favored by administration liberals. The position reflects... More »

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Afghanistan • Joe Biden • vice president • Afghanistan war • Obama administration • Afghanistan exit strategy

UPDATED

 Pentagon Downplays 
 13K Surge in Afghan 
 Support Troops 

Extra thousands swell US numbers in Afghanistan

Oct 13, 09 7:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - When does 21,000 equal 34,000? When the Pentagon is counting. The 21,000 additional troops President Obama approved for Afghanistan earlier this year have been accompanied by 13,000 extra support troops, bringing the total number in Afghanistan to nearly 68,000. Pentagon and White House officials have... More »

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Afghanistan • Pentagon • troop surge • Robert Gates • US military • troop levels • Afghanistan war • Stanley McChrystal

 Beck: Prez Cares 
 More About 
 Fighting Fox 
 Than Afghan War 

Beck, Bill O'Reilly escalate Fox feud with the White House

Oct 13, 09 5:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Fox anchors Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly went on the attack last night against White House accusations that their network is heavily biased against the president. "They’re more worried about the war on Fox than the actual war in Afghanistan,” snorted Beck at the beginning of his... More »

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Afghanistan • Bill O'Reilly • Fox News • Glenn Beck • cable news • President Obama

Pentagon Insiders:

 Obama Team Downplays
 Risks in Afghan Pullback

Al-Qaeda, Taliban much closer than public has been led to believe

Oct 12, 09 11:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - US military and intelligence officials see dangerous misrepresentations in the Obama team’s flirting with a limited, anti-al-Qaeda strategy in Afghanistan. “The White House is downplaying the dangers of doing the only thing that they think Congress and the public will support,” an official tells McClatchy. But taking... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • India • troop surge • US military • al-Qaeda • Obama administration • Stanley McChrystal • public opinion

 New Pakistan Bomb Kills 41 

Fourth terror attack in a week rocks nation

Oct 12, 09 5:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Yet another massive bomb has struck a market in Pakistan, this time killing 41 people. The blast in the Shangla district is the fourth terrorist attack in just over a week. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out before an expected US-backed offensive in the al-Qaeda and... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Pakistan • bomb • car bomb • al-Qaeda • Pakistan army

 UN Official Denies 
 Cover Up in 
 Afghan Vote 

Recount will rectify fraud, says head of mission in troubled nation

Oct 12, 09 1:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - The head of the UN mission in Afghanistan is denying that he helped cover up vote-rigging in the disputed Afghan election, refuting charges made by a top US diplomat. In a rare press conference, Kai Eide also said a partial recount being conducted by a UN-backed election panel would root... More »

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Afghanistan • diplomacy • election monitors • Peter Galbraith • disputed election • election • election results • Kai Eide

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 GOP to Obama: 
 Give McChrystal 
 His Troops 

McCain: Not granting request 'would be an error of historic proportions'

Oct 11, 09 11:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Afghanistan was the name of the game on the talk shows today, with John McCain pointedly warning President Obama on State of the Union that sending Gen. Stanley McChrystal anything less than the 40,000 troops he's requested "would be an error of historic proportions." Lindsey Graham chimed... More »

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Afghanistan • John McCain • Lindsey Graham • Stanley McChrystal • Fox News Sunday • Sunday morning talk shows • Anita Dunn

Frank Rich

 Iraq Hawks Are 
 Just as Wrong 
 on Afghanistan 

Why is anyone still listening to McCain, Lieberman, and Graham?

Oct 11, 09 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Three Amigos who pushed the invasion of Iraq are at it again, now claiming that we must escalate the war in Afghanistan if we want to avoid another 9/11—the same claim they used before to urge us to take on Iraq in 2003, Frank Rich writes. Rich finds... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • John McCain • Joe Lieberman • Lindsey Graham • Afghanistan war • Afghanistan election

 Taliban Claim Victory 
 as US Quits Base 

Insurgents take control of remote outpost where 8 troops were killed last week

Oct 9, 09 8:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Taliban claimed to have won a major victory over the US yesterday as American troops abandoned a remote base in eastern Afghanistan where eight soldiers were killed in a firefight last weekend. "The white flag of the Taliban is raised above Kamdesh," crowed a Taliban spokesman. NATO ... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • US military • military bases • Afghanistan war

 A Few Other Nobel 
 Candidates 

Tireless campaigners for human rights, long-suffering Chinese dissidents among those passed over

Oct 9, 09 2:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama himself said he was not sure he deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize, and the Weekly Standard seems to agree. Mary Katherine Ham invites you to consider some of the luminaries who were passed over:
  • Sima Samar: A Afghan women’s rights activist who kept
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Afghanistan • China • Barack Obama • FARC • Nobel Peace Prize • Ingrid Betancourt • Hu Jia • Congo • Wei Jingsheng • Handicap International • Cluster Munition Coalition • Denis Mukwege • Sima Samar

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