Posts Tagged ‘Karl W. Eikenberry’

Greening Afghanistan for Nowroz

In Afghanistan, News on 20 March 2011 tagged Afghanistan, cedar, Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Karl W. Eikenberry, Nowrooz, Nowroz, United Press International, UPI with no comments

As green has come to be known as the color of Nowroz, the Afghan government is using the new year festivities to help restore some of the greenery of the Afghan nation. The joint project between ISAF and the Karzai government is aimed to bring the rate of the nation’s forests back to the 5 [...]

Mr. Obama Comes to Kabul

In Afghanistan, History, News, Politics, War on 28 March 2010 tagged @PressSec, Air Force One, Barack Hussein Obama, Camp David, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Karl W. Eikenberry, Robert Gibbs, Tweetpaste, Twitter with 2 comments

As his approval rating for handling an eight-year old war he inherited increased by eight points, United States President Barack Hussein Obama made a secret trip to Kabul on Sunday. Alongside Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who only received an hour’s notice of Obama’s visit, Obama was set to meet with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, top U.S. military [...]

Karzai Gives Go Ahead to Operation Moshtarak

In Afghanistan, History, News, Politics, War on 13 February 2010 tagged Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Hamid Karzai, Karl W. Eikenberry, Marja, Marjah, NATO, Operation Moshtarak, Washington Post with 1 comment

U.S. and NATO forces began their much hyped Operation Moshtarak in the town of Marjah, Helmand today. In the buildup to the offensive, the United States forces went to great lengths to assure that civilians will not be harmed in the fight against the Taliban. The total deployed forces will be comprised of 60% Afghans, [...]

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

In Afghanistan, citizenship, Crime, News, Opinion, pakistan, Politics, TV, War 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 1 comment

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 and [...]