Afghanistan Newslinks 5 March, 2009

US Pushing for High-Level Afghanistan Meeting That Would Include …
Washington Post – United States
By Glenn Kessler BRUSSELS, March 5 — The Obama administration is pushing to convene a high-level meeting on Afghanistan this month that could for first …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
story/2009/03/05/ST2009030501526.html

Obama Crafts New Plans For Iraq, Afghanistan
WESH.com – Orlando,FL,USA
But also at the top of his agenda was setting a new plan for US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. In his Feb. 27 speech, Obama said that the United…
www.wesh.com/iraq-war/18858438/detail.html

Snapshot: Local opinion on Obama plan to end Iraq war
Newsday – Long Island,NY,USA
But it’s also scary to realize that when they are drawing those troops out, they are sending them to Afghanistan. I care about every one of them going,…
www.newsday.com/news/local/politics/
ny-liiraq056058100mar05,0,7466621.story

Clinton proposes high-level meeting on Afghanistan
Reuters – USA
Aside from Afghanistan and Pakistan, Clinton also proposed inviting NATO allies and other nations contributing forces to the operation in Afghanistan as …
www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSL5388074

Voters back Obama’s troop buildup in Afghanistan
AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) — A majority of US voters support President Barack Obama’s decision to send an additional 17000 troops to Afghanistan and give him high …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
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Reader Commentaries: Is Obama Going ‘All the Way with LBJ’?
Berkeley Daily Planet – Berkeley,CA,USA
… brutal, ongoing seven-year-old military occupation of Afghanistan (war crimes) and his notion of indefinitely keeping some 50000 American soldiers in …
www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-03-05/article/
32382?headline=Is-Obama-Going-All-the-Way-with-LBJ-

Dubious About Budget Moves
Hartford Courant – United States
18 op-ed article [”Odds Against Democracy In Iraq, Afghanistan”] written by an assistant professor of government at Wesleyan University, the US cannot…
www.courant.com/news/opinion/editorials/
hc-digbrflets0305.art0mar05,0,2968953.story

New educational year begins in Afghanistan
Xinhua – China
KABUL, March 5 (Xinhua) — Afghanistan’s new educational year formally started Thursday with beating the bill by President Hamid Karzai in a local school …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-03/05/content_10951144.htm

Canada Announces Support for Upcoming Elections in Afghanistan
MSNBC – USA
OTTAWA, ONTARIO – Today the Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation and Vice-Chair of the Cabinet Committee on Afghanistan and the …
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29514644/

Sri Lanka cricketers attack: Pakistan ‘greater threat than …
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
Pakistan is a greater danger to world security than Afghanistan, the most senior US diplomat in Kabul has warned. By Ben Farmer in Kabul The country’s …
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/4941262/
Sri-Lanka-cricketers-attack-Pakistan-greater-threat-than-Afghanistan.html

The Difference in Afghanistan
By Greyhawk
I’ve become almost permanently uninterested in reporting on Afghanistan. Reading these accounts describes a country and a people I have never visited or met… and I am there right now, spending time outside the wire. Battlefield Tourist: …
www.mudvillegazette.com/031598.html

Troops To Arrive Home From Afghanistan
WKYT – Lexington Kentucky. Local and Breaking News, Sports, and Weather for Central and Eastern Kentucky.
www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/40775072.html

The agonies of Afghanistan – Citizen Katzenjammer
By dangardner
The most news and entertainment portal from a Canadian perspective. Television, major newspapers across Canada, health, sport, entertainment, lifestyle, free email and more.
communities.canada.com/ottawacitizen/blogs/katzenjammer
/archive/2009/03/05/the-agonies-of-afghanistan.aspx

DutchNews.nl – Dutch consider more troops to Afghanistan
The Netherlands is considering a request by Nato to send extra troops to Afghanistan to oversee the country’s elections which will probably be held in August, reports the Telegraaf.
www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/
03/dutch_may_send_extra_troops_to.php

Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy :: My Prediction for Afghanistan
By Saskboy
I hate to bring you down, and I know this sounds like I wrote this on a gloomy Monday, but things are not going to go well for Canada, in Afghanistan. (That’s assuming you don’t already recognize that losing 105+ soldiers over 7+ years …
www.abandonedstuff.com/2009/03/04/my-prediction-for-afghanistan/