bloomberg.com - 2/16/2009
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Iran Is Helping Taliban in Afghanistan, Petraeus Says (Update1) By Henry Meyer Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Iran is helping Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, said General David Petraeus , who is in charge of U.S. forces in the Central Asian nation and Iraq. “There is a willingness to provide some ...
nytimes.com - 2/17/2009
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nytimes.com —
WASHINGTON -- President Obama said Tuesday that he
would send an additional 17,000 American troops to Afghanistan...
this spring and summer, putting his stamp firmly on a war that he has long complained is going in the wrong direction. The order will add ...
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Putting Stamp on Afghan War, Obama Will Send 17,000 Troops
tigerhawk.blogspot.com - 2/13/2009
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tigerhawk.blogspot.com —
Most political blog readers will remember the storm
of controversy that erupted in early December 2007, when...
a new American "National Intelligence Assessment" claimed that Iran had stopped development of a nuclear weapon in 2003. The New York Times ...
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Now they tell us: Iran is pursuing a bomb
swampland.blogs.time.com - 2/17/2009
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swampland.blogs.time.com —
This is terrible news. The Pakistani government has
essentially given control of the Swat Valley to the...
Taliban. It means that the Taliban are now 100 miles from Islamabad and the military center of Rawalpindi. It also means that Pakistan's ...
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Today in Pakistan
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30K? 300K? How Many More for Afghanistan - and Why?
Firedoglake —
Twenty years ago this weekend the USSR left Afghanistan, after nine long and brutal years of trying to “win.” This weekend the new US envoy to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke was in Kabul to discuss our seven year attempt to “win” but the definition of “victory” is a bit hard to pin down. (Oh, and ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/15/2009
Gates of Vienna —
... Iran is Helping Taliban in Afghanistan, Petraeus Says Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) — Iran is helping Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, said General David Petraeus, who is in charge of U.S. forces in the Central Asian nation and Iraq. “There is a willingness to provide some degree of assistance to make the life of those who are trying to help the Afghan people difficult,” Petraeus told a conference today in the Qatari capital, Doha. Petraeus gave no details of the Iranian assistance, which he described as ...
Iran and Afghanistan - Can You Find the Message Here?
Firedoglake —
Can anyone make sense of this?
DNI Blair on Iran and Afghanistan in Washington:
Blair's description of Iran's relationship with one of those actors, the Taliban, is most interesting. He said the intelligence community's judgment is that "Iran distrusts the Taliban and its return to power." …
But Blair ...
General Petraeus: Iran ‘helping Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan’
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
For years now, Iran has been training and equipping militants and terrorists in Iraq, despite the abject refusal of Western press to report on it and the U.S. and other governments to do anything about it.
Now, Iran is providing “small-level” assistance to Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, as well, according to General David Petraeus, commanding general of United States Central Command (CentCom).
Despite being on speaking terms with the Taliban beginning in 1999, Iran assisted in the U.S.-led overthrow of the terrorist regime in 2001, and has no real interest in seeing the fanatical Sunni organization take over ...
Taliban Steals US Supplies... Sells Them at Market (Video)
Gateway Pundit —
... between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sheila MacVicar reports from London. (CBS) More at the Intellectual Redneck. In other Taliban news today... Pakistan capitulated to the terror group and agreed Monday to suspend military offensives and impose Islamic law in part of the restive northwest. ...A huge win for the Taliban. Also this weekend, General Petraeus said that Iran is helping the Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
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juancole.com 2/27/2009 — Even as President Obama sends 17,000 extra US troops to Afghanistan and intends to spend $140 bn on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in 2009, rumors of negotiations with Taliban elements keep surfacing. Elements of the "Old Taliban" of Mulla Omar ...
McCain on Afghanistan at AEI
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The battle for Pakistan
pajamasmedia.com 4/2/2009 — The NYT summarizes the testmony of General Petraeus and Michele Flournoy of the DOD.
WASHINGTON — Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander for Iraq and Afghanistan, warned a Senate panel on Wednesday that militant extremists in Pakistan ...
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