27 May, 2009

Afghan plan would rely on innovative tactics, new rotations
CNN – USA
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The Pentagon is considering new tactics in Afghanistan: deploying hundreds of troops using creative and nimble counterinsurgency…
www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/27/afghanistan.troop.plan/

Suicide attack on convoy kills six in Afghanistan
Globe and Mail – Canada
Three soldiers fighting with NATO-led forces and three civilians were killed by a suicide-car-bomb attack on a military convoy in eastern Afghanistan …
www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/suicide-
attack-on-convoy-kills-six-in-afghanistan/article1154810/

National Briefing | South Florida: Guilty Plea by Contractors
New York Times – United States
By CJ CHIVERS Two former employees of AEY Inc., a military contracting firm in Miami Beach, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the government. …
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/us/27brfs-GUILTYPLEABY_BRF.html

WORLD BRIEFING
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-rigged car into a military convoy, killing three US soldiers and three civilians in eastern Afghanistan. …
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world
/la-fg-briefs27-2009may27,0,3623015.story

Pentagon: Ex-Gitmo detainees turning to terrorism on rise
CNN International – USA
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Mohammed Ismail was released from the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in early 2004 and sent back to Afghanistan to be …
edition.cnn.com/2009/US/05/26/gitmo.recidivism/

Army chief says US ready to be in Iraq 10 years
The Associated Press
He said his planning envisions combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for a decade as part of a sustained US commitment to fighting extremism and terrorism …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM
5gdE_56XyHbB6NPQQ_Mt-KKGgg5EgD98E62C00

Afghanistan hopes Iran will attend G8 meeting
PRESS TV – Tehran,Iran
The Afghan foreign minister responded on the issue by expressing hope that Mottaki would take part in the meeting in Italy on Afghanistan, saying the future …
www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=96024&sectionid=351020101

One in 7 who leave Guantanamo involved in terrorism
Reuters – USA
The list included former detainees accused or convicted of terrorist offenses in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Russia. …
www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE54P5RY20090526

Jewish soldier killed in Afghanistan
Jewish Telegraphic Agency – New York,NY,USA
She is the first female graduate of the US Air Force Academy to be killed in action in Afghanistan or Iraq. Schulte’s funeral was held Monday at …
jta.org/news/article/2009/05/26/10054
28/jewish-soldier-killed-in-afghanistan

US lawyers rally for Afghan Gitmo inmate
AFP
Lawyers for Mohammad Jawad, now about 19 years old and still being held at the prison in Cuba, travelled to Afghanistan to petition the Supreme Court and …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5hAhNsSmwq_dj8-IFKlDbeAdVqrXQ

ATTACKERMAN “ Political Processes and Institutional Capacity in …
By Dave Kasten
Though it may seem superfluous when Joshua Foust is a fellow
co-guest-blogger, I’m writing about Afghanistan. Dr. Kimberly Kagan, the head of the Institute for the Study of War, has a really befuddling op-ed in the Washington Examiner. …
attackerman.firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/political
-processes-and-institutional-capacity-in-afghanistan/

Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive – New plan for U.S.-Afghan …
By KELLY, AC360
The plan is evolving as Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expressing growing concern that American public support for the war in Afghanistan will begin declining unless the Obama Administration can demonstrate progress in improving the …
ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/27/new-plan-for-u-s-afghan-campaign/

Stabroek News – Peace through development
By Stabroek staff
It’s high time for a strategy of peace through sustainable development– including investments in health, education, livelihoods, water and sanitation, and irrigation – in today’s hotspots, starting with Afghanistan and Pakistan. …
www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/
05/27/peace-through-development.html

Dave Chandler’s Earthside.com: Obama Fooling Us on Iraq?
By Dave Chandler
The report below tells us the real tale — the groundwork is being laid to keep thousands and thousands and thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan for years and years to come. We suspect that the Obama Pentagon will …
www.earthside.com/earthside/2009/05/obama-fooling-us-on-iraq.html

Hit & Run U.S. Miltary Takes Long-Term Lease With Option to Buy …
By gillespie@reason.com (Nick Gillespie)
Afghanistan did provide aid and support to people who attacked us. Are we supposed to let those people back in power? But good for you for being honest and including Afghanistan along with Iraq. I always knew that your type would turn …
www.reason.com/blog/show/133729.html

26 May, 2009

3 Americans and a Civilian Die in Afghanistan Attack
New York Times – United States
By ADAM B. ELLICK and ABDUL WAHEED WAFA KABUL, Afghanistan—A suicide car bomber driving a Toyota Corolla plowed into a NATO convoy at 9 am on Tuesday, …
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/world/
asia/27afghan.html?ref=global-home

Further loss for Antrim regiment
BBC News – UK
The latest British serviceman killed in Afghanistan was a member of the same regiment as two soldiers murdered in Northern Ireland in March. …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8067820.stm

3 NATO troops killed in blast in Afghanistan
The Associated Press
KABUL (AP) — A bomb exploded near a military vehicle in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing three international troops and wounding one, officials said. …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM
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Clash kills 8 Taliban in Afghanistan
Hindu – Chennai,India
Kabul (AP): Eight Taliban fighters are dead after battling US coalition troops in southern Afghanistan. The coalition says two of its troops and three …
www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200905261113.htm

Gates Says Taliban Have Momentum in Afghanistan
Wall Street Journal – USA
Mr. Gates said the momentum in Afghanistan is with the Taliban, who are inflicting heavy US casualties and hold de facto control of swaths of the country. …
online.wsj.com/article/SB12432947263
1452687.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Afghanistan: 4 Killed by Roadside Bomb
New York Times – United States
By AP A roadside bomb struck a car in Zabul Province in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing four civilians, said Jalani Khan, a provincial police …
www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/world/
asia/26briefs-Afghan.html?ref=world

No way to “win” in Afghanistan
Real News Network – New York,NY,USA
Gareth Porter, investigative historian and journalist, speaks to Paul Jay about the war in Afghanistan and Obama’s recent appointment of Lt. Gen. …
therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_conte
nt&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=3744

Tributes to ‘exuberant’ British soldier killed in Afghanistan
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
… serviceman killed in two days while on patrol near Sangin, taking the total number of British service personnel killed in Afghanistan since 2001 to 161. …
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/onthefrontline/5383712/
Tributes-to-exuberant-British-soldier-killed-in-Afghanistan.html

Afghanistan: Suicide Bomber Kills 3 US Troops
By The Huffington Post News Editors
KABUL — A suicide bomber killed three American troops and three Afghan civilians after ramming an explosive-laden vehicle into a military convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday. The convoy was rocked by the blast outside the capital …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/26/a
fghanistan-suicide-bombe_1_n_207488.html

KOAA.com – Senator Udall visits Afghanistan
Mark Udall has gone to Afghanistan to meet with Afghan leaders and American commanders, and he says the U.S. is “on the right track” with its new military and civil tactics there. Udall spoke with reporters by phone Monday, …
www.koaa.com/aaaa_top_stories/x83121
5913/Senator-Udall-visits-Afghanistan

Military honors fallen soldiers | Bryan/College Station, Texas …
American troops in Afghanistan, however, face a growing war against a revived Taliban that has regained much of the ground that it lost to the first U.S.-led offensive in 2001. While the outlook for U.S. troops in Iraq appears somewhat …
www.theeagle.com/world/Military-honors-fallen-soldiers

Digital Video & Imagery Distribution System
KABUL, Afghanistan — Three International Security Assistance Force service members were killed and one injured after an Improvised Explosive Device attack in eastern Afghanistan, May 26. “ISAF mourns the loss of these three brave …
www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=34084

t r u t h o u t | US Soldiers’ Options Limited to Protect Afghans …
Bermel, Afghanistan – The Taliban took shelter in the U.S.-built school they blew up last year before they began the 400-foot climb, rockets in hand, to the American bastion on the hill. Wrapped in space blankets – thin foil sheets …
www.truthout.org/052609O