Posts Tagged ‘Insurgency’

General Nicholson : ‘In Counterinsurgency, People are the Prize’

In Afghanistan, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 8 February 2010 tagged Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, Brig. Gen. Lawrence Nicholson, Camp Leatherneck, Counter-Insurgency, counterinsurgency, Helmand, Helmand Valley, Insurgency, insurgent, LA Times, Los Angeles Times, Marja, Marjah, taliban with Comments

As Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called for an end to raids in Afghan villages, and defiant Marjah residents have accused the West of wreckless endangerment of the Afghan civilian population, Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson told the Los Angeles Times that he has worked hard to ensure civilian safety in Marjah.
If the United States wants [...]

First New U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Warned of ‘More Combat’

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War on 14 December 2009 tagged Afghanistan, Insurgency, Mike Mullen, Ria Novosti, taliban, Troop Surge, U.S. Joint chiefs of Staff with Comments

Though putting more United States soldiers in greater risk is not desirable by any means, Admiral Mullen’s statements about more combat could be interpreted as a step in the right direction.
If the 30,000 additional troops can be put to use for ground combat it could be the key to thwarting air strikes which have only [...]

BNW on AU Observer Afghanistan Panel

In Afghanistan, DC, History, Iraq, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 10 November 2009 tagged #Afghanelection, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Afghan election, Afghanistan, American University, AU Observer, Azizullah Lodin, Azizullah Ludin, Barack Hussein Obama, Burhanuddin Rabbani, CIA, Civilan Surge, Counter-Insurgency, Counterterrorism, DC, Democracy, donald rumsfeld, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Dr. Ashraf Ghani, Dr. Ramazan Bashardost, George W. Bush, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Haji Mohammad Mohaqiq, Hamid Karzai, IEC, Independent Election Commission, Insurgency, Insurgents, Iraq, Kabul, Malalai Joya, Mullah Omar, NATO, Osama Bin Laden, Politics, Qasim Fahim, Rawa, run-off, runoff election, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Soviet Union, taliban, The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, Tora Bora, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Nations, USSR, Ustream, Veterans, Video, Vietnam, Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMD with Comments

Video : Hamid Karzai on Farid Zakaria GPS, ‘I’m Known for Consensus’

In Afghanistan, Crime, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, War, citizenship, pakistan on 26 October 2009 tagged Admiral Mullen, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, CNN, Department of State, Development, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Dr. Ashraf Ghani, ECC, Election, Election Fraud, Electoral Complaints Commission, Fareed Zakaria, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Gordon Brown, GPS, Hamid Karzai, IEC, Independent Election Commission, Insurgency, insurgent, John Kerry, Kabul, Karl W. Eikenberry, Maulavi Mustafa Barakzai, Minister of Foreign Affairs, NATO, New York Times, pakistan, Pashtun, Presidential Election, rahm emanuel, Reconstruction, Richard Holbrooke, run-off, runoff, runoff election, September 11, Shakespeare, Special Envoy, suicide bomb, taliban, Thomas Friedman, Turkey, UN, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, UNSC, Video, Vote Fraud, Voter Fraud, war on terror, Washington, Waziristan, World Bank, Zakaria GPS with Comments

Hamid Karzai says that all parties involved have had made mistakes over the past 8 years and speaks well about wanting to make the best decisions for a nation in the situation that Afghanistan is in, which are all fairly by the book positions for an unpopular President facing charges of illegitimacy at home [...]

Dr. Abdullah Abdullah Comments on Joining Karzai Administration, Makes Demands of Run-off

In Afghanistan, Crime, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War, citizenship on 23 October 2009 tagged Afghanistan, BBC, CNN, Department of State, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, ECC, Election, Election Fraud, Electoral Complaints Commission, Golden Age, Hamid Karzai, IEC, Independent Election Commission, Insurgency, insurgent, John King, Kabul, Kai Eide, NATO, Pashtun, Presidential Election, Richard Holbrooke, run-off, runoff, runoff election, Special Envoy, State of the Union, taliban, UN, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, UNSC, Vote Fraud, Voter Fraud, Washington with Comments

With not much time until the November 07 run-off, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah has already begun speaking about the logistics of the run-off and chances of him once again serving under a Karzai Administration, should the President be officially re-elected in a legitimate, fair, and transparent election:
He won’t join Karzai’s government if the incumbent wins another [...]