news.yahoo.com - 1/18/2009
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KABUL, Afghanistan U.S. Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton 's use of the term "narco state" to describe Afghanistan in a recent Senate testimony has caught the attention of her Afghan counterpart. Foreign Ministry Rangin Dadfar Spanta said Saturday that it is "absolutely wrong" to ...
whitehouse.gov - 1/20/2009
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whitehouse.gov —
Afghanistan: Obama and Biden will refocus American resources
on the greatest threat to our security -- the
resurgence of al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They will increase our troop levels in Afghanistan, press our allies in NATO ...
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Foreign Policy
thenation.com - 1/14/2009
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thenation.com —
President-elect Barack Obama not only had the good
judgment to oppose the war in Iraq, he argued
for the need "to end the mindset that took us into" that war. So it's troubling that he ramped up his rhetoric during the campaign about exiting Iraq in ...
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Obama Must Get Afghanistan Right
cbc.ca - 1/22/2009
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cbc.ca —
Omar Khadr pointed out Canadian Maher Arar, who
was cleared of any links to terrorism by a
public inquiry in 2006, as someone he saw at al-Qaeda safe houses and possibly training camps in Afghanistan, an FBI agent has testified. In this photo of a ...
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Khadr saw Arar at al-Qaeda sites in Afghanistan: FBI agent
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Afghan Foreign Ministry at Odds with Hillary Clinton
PoliGazette —
... Even though she hasn’t been sworn in yet, Hillary Clinton is already at odds with the Afghan foreign ministry. The reason: Clinton referred to Afghanistan as a “narco-state” during a recent confirmation hearing. Afghanistan’s foreign minister was insulted by the term, saying that it is “absolutely wrong” to classify Afghanistan as such. ...
Obama's Afghan Policy--Take One
Swampland —
... Afghanistan's foreign minister is apparently upset because Hillary Clinton called his country a "Narco State" in her testimony last week. He says: ...
Remainders: Lincoln
Ben Smith's Blog —
Obama does community service.
Gates will be backup president tomorrow.
Afghans are mad at Hillary already.
Ezra Klein thinks the Presidential Records Act needs to be updated.
Podesta says that people who try to play internal politics in Obamaland get "iced out."
Maraniss pens a must-read overview of Obama's rise.
Will.i.am cleans it up for the inauguration.
Cryptome has(.pdf) some documents detailing inaugural threat levels.
Lincoln was a racist. ...
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