news.bbc.co.uk - 18 days ago
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Andrew North BBC correspondent in Kabul After a particularly bad week for British troops here, Gordon Brown is keen to switch the pressure on to President Hamid Karzai. It's part of a concerted international effort to force him to change his ways in his next five-year term. But by saying he's ...
news.bbc.co.uk - 23 days ago
nytimes.com - 13 days ago
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WASHINGTON When President Obama delivered a rare
and public call last week for President Hamid Karzai...
to crack down on corruption in Afghanistan , there was one glaring omission from his remarks an “or else.” Mr. Obama’s exclusion of the obvious ...
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In Leaning on Karzai, U.S. Has Limited Leverage
telegraph.co.uk - 23 days ago
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telegraph.co.uk —
Hamid Karzai's government has already begun arrangements to
fix the second round of voting in the country's...
presidential poll, an election monitor has said.
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Ben Cohen: Diary of a Fallen Soldier
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... The reason I am writing about Mark is because of the recent announcement that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will soon announce his commitment to escalating the war in Afghanistan. Another 50,000 men will be sent to fight the Taliban in the coming months and the U.S and U.K seem in no mood to withdraw. ...
New Afghan Compact Is A Clunker
Newshoggers.com —
... and sub-provincial warlords who control the actual levers of power outside Kabul. The U.S. pressure on Karzai "can only work on a few ministries and a few issues", he told IPS.
Gareth quotes David Kilcullen as saying last August that "There is no Afghan government in the way there is an American government. There are only a series of fiefdoms." In the majority of those fiefdoms, it will be business as usual.
Meanwhile, across the pond, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is sending what his opposition rightly says are conflicting signals. ...
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