telegraph.co.uk - 10/23/2008
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Foreign correspondent Nick Meo narrowly escapes a Taliban ambush.
rollingstone.com - 10/17/2008
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rollingstone.com —
T he highway that leads south out of
Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, passes through a craggy...
range of arid, sand-colored mountains with sharp, stony peaks. Poplar trees and green fields line the road. Nomadic Kuchi women draped in colorful scarves ...
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How We Lost the War We Won
csmonitor.com - 10/26/2008
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csmonitor.com —
Before sending more brave men and women there,
let's question conventional wisdom. It will take more than...
military might to succeed in Afghanistan.
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More US troops to Afghanistan?
washingtonpost.com - 10/16/2008
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washingtonpost.com —
Team to Focus On Afghanistan, Wider Region By
Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October...
16, 2008; A12 Gen. David H. Petraeus has launched a major reassessment of U.S. strategy for Afghanistan , Pakistan , Iran , Iraq and the ...
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Petraeus Mounts Strategy Review
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The Anti-Pat Dollard: Brit Reporter Nick Meo In A-Stan With Yank Troops - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... be long before Nick is wearing a burka in England …
Afghanistan: The night I was ‘killed in action’ by a Taliban ambush
In the week that Sir David Richards, the new head of the British Army, called for more troops to be sent to Afghanistan, foreign correspondent Nick Meo came so close to death in a Taliban bomb ambush that the US forces had him written off as a fatality.
by Nick Meo - (Telegraph UK)
The convoy started with a line from a second-rate war film. ...
Portraits in Courage
Neptunus Lex —
Read this gripping tale of a UK Telegraph journalist caught in the middle of an ambush in Afghanistan:
“We’ll get shot at, I guarantee you 100 per cent,” Becker, a prison officer back in the United States, had said when I had joined his unit half an hour earlier. He had a dreadful Mohican-style army haircut that made me think of Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver…
There was a boom. The huge vehicle seemed to roll over and I found myself hanging upside down in the harness, with screams in my headphones and small-arms ...
Liar, Incompetent, or Incompetent Liar?
Mudville Gazette —
... That's a quote from journalist Nick Meo, captured in his own video made in the immediate aftermath of an IED attack that flipped the armored vehicle in which he was traveling. Watch it for yourself - count the rounds you hear fired, it debunks the characterization in so many media reports of massive, indiscriminate fire as the doctrinal response to such an attack. ...
Reese Schonfeld: Afghanistan: Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... . In Afghanistan, they have proven even less reliable. Again, obviously we need a better armored vehicle, and for now, the Oshkosh version is it. It is specifically designed to travel over the mountains and sands of Afghanistan, and it will undoubtedly save many lives. Nevertheless, this safety measure does not come cheap. Under the terms of the Oshkosh contract, each vehicle will cost us more than $1.3 million and we expect to order 10,000 of them. That's more than $13 billion. ...
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michaelyon-online.com 11/10/2008 — 10 November 2008 The Iraq war is over. Barring the unforeseen, the darkest days are behind, though we are still losing soldiers to low-level fighting with enemies that are true “dead-enders.” Last month we lost seven Americans in combat in Iraq. ...
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