newshoggers.com - 2/16/2009
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By Cernig
ONE THIRD of all the weapons procured for the Afghan security forces are missing and can be presumed sold onto the black market. Worth roughly $40 million at wholesale cost (and weighing in excess of 200 tons) to the Pentagon, would anyone like to guess at the black market ...
nytimes.com - 2/17/2009
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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
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 2/14/2009
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President Barack Obama is moving up in the
world in terms of picking fights. Or walking into
them. First, came a disagreement over the impact of the administration's economic stimulus package in East Peoria, Illinois with Jim Owens , the ...
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Afghan Pres. Karzai hopes Obama will "settle down," show ...
civicworldwide.org - 2/17/2009
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Afghanistan Quote NEW! CIVIC RELEASES GROUNDBREAKING REPORT ON
AFGHAN CIVILIAN CASUALTIES [click here to download report summary]
[click here to download full report] NEW CIVIC EVENTS: CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN AFGHANISTAN 2/17 - 12:15pm & 2/18 - 4:00pm ...
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30K? 300K? How Many More for Afghanistan - and Why?
Firedoglake —
... Western confidence in the efficacy of military forces to affect massive changes in a primitive society could use tempering.
Cernig at Newshoggers suggests the recent news of lost US weapons shows us that
This, folks, is a ...
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