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A top US commander has warned US troops face a "resilient" Taliban "aided" by al-Qaeda, as the US plans to deploy 17,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan. US General David McKiernan says concerted efforts, both military and civilian, are urgently needed to overcome Taliban fighters. Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports.
The parliament in Kyrgyzstan has voted for the closure of the US air base at Manas. The president is most likely to approve the bill thus depriving the US of the only reliable route to deliver cargo and troops to Afghanistan.
The parliament in Kyrgyzstan is set to vote on Thursday on whether the US air base at Manas will be closed. If so, Washington will lose the only reliable route to deliver cargo and troops to Afghanistan.
The US troop surge in Afghanistan by up to 30 000 more troops will bring more killings and hate for the US in Afghanistan & Pashtuns=Afghans will respond much harder to kick out the occupiers of their land no matter if the traitor minorities, the Northern Alliance Criminals are standing by the US side to get financial & power support.
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...U.S. commander in Afghanistan offered a grim view Wednesday of military efforts in southern Afghanistan, warning that 17,000 new troops will take on emboldened Taliban insurgents who have «stalemated» U.S. and allied forces there. Army Gen. David McKiernan...
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President Obama ordered his first major deployment of U.S. combat troops Tuesday, authorizing 17,000 additional soldiers and Marines for Afghanistan in what he described as an urgent bid to stabilize a deteriorating and neglected country. The deployment will double the number of American combat brigades in the nation at a time of tension with Afghanistans weak government over civilian casualties of the campaign against the increasingly bold Taliban, and concern over neighboring Pakistans ability to fight Islamic militants based there. In a statement announcing the troop increase, Obama directed veiled criticism at the Bush administration, noting that a request from Army Gen. David D. McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, had been pending for months. This increase is necessary to stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which has not received the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires, Obama said. In undertaking the solemn duty to dispatch troops to war, Obama also delved into one of the main issues of his long presidential campaign. While denouncing the Iraq war as a mistake, Obama repeatedly pledged to refocus on Afghanistan. Though fulfilling requests submitted by U.S. commanders, Tuesdays order leaves crucial questions of strategy and tactics unanswered until a strategy review is completed in April. In a hint that his strategy would include more than military power, Obama said he would employ all elements of U.S. government resources to meet achievable goals, with help from U.S. allies.
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...is going to be tough year," he said. President Barack Obama on Tuesday approved the dispatching of 17,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to stabilize what he called a deteriorating situation. They include an Army combat brigade and a Marine expeditionary...
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As Barack Obama, the US president, signed his economic rescue plan into law on Tuesday he also approved an additional 17,000 US troops for Afghanistan. They'll join the 38,000 already battling the Taliban in the country. Obama said the extra troops are necessary to "stabilise a deteriorating situation". But all this came as residents in one Afghan village told an increasingly familiar story - one of US air attacks, and civilian casualties. Hamish MacDonald reports.
AP Julian E. Barnes and Greg Miller The Los Angeles Times February 18, 2009 President Obama ordered his first major deployment of U.S. combat troops Tuesday, authorizing 17,000 additional soldiers and Marines for Afghanistan in what he described as an urgent bid to stabilize a deteriorating and neglected country. The deployment will double the number of American combat brigades in the nation at a time of tension with Afghanistans weak government over civilian casualties of the campaign against the increasingly bold Taliban, and concern over neighboring Pakistans ability to fight Islamic militants based there. In a statement announcing the troop increase, Obama directed veiled criticism at the Bush administration, noting that a request from Army Gen. David D. McKiernan, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, had been pending for months. This increase is necessary to stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which has not received the strategic attention, direction and resources it urgently requires, Obama said. In undertaking the solemn duty to dispatch troops to war, Obama also delved into one of the main issues of his long presidential campaign. While denouncing the Iraq war as a mistake, Obama repeatedly pledged to refocus on Afghanistan. Though fulfilling requests submitted by U.S. commanders, Tuesdays order leaves crucial questions of strategy and tactics unanswered until a strategy review is completed in April. In a hint that his strategy would include more than military power, Obama said he would employ all elements of U.S. government resources to meet achievable goals, with help from U.S. allies. http://infowars.com
US President Barack Obama has given the go-ahead to send another 17,000 US troops to Afghanistan.
http://cspanjunkie.org/ February 18, 2009 BBC World
As tributes are paid to the latest British soldier to die in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama's announced he's sending 17,000 more US troops there.
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... Washington, Feb 18: In his first major military move, US President Barack Obama approved the deployment of 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan, saying they were needed "to stabilize a deteriorating situation." "There is no more solemn duty as President...
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...all of the troops they had asked for. The decision carries political risk for the president, who will be sending more troops to Afghanistan before he has begun to fulfil a promised rapid withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Many experts worry that Afghanistan presents...
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Guardian Unlimited
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President Barack Obama approved adding some 17,000 U.S. troops for the flagging war in Afghanistan, his first significant move to change the course of a conflict that his closest military advisers have warned the United States is not winning. (Feb. 17)
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...warning that security gains are fragile. Both Democrats and Republicans welcomed Obama's decision to send more troops to Afghanistan. Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican defeated by Obama in last November's presidential election, described the situation...
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February 17th 2009: NBC News and news services updated 6:10 p.m. ET Feb. 17, 2009 WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama approved adding some 17,000 U.S. troops for the flagging war in Afghanistan, his first significant move to change the course of a conflict that his closest military advisers have warned the United States is not winning. "To meet urgent security needs, I approved a request from (Defense) Secretary Gates to deploy a Marine Expeditionary Brigade later this spring and an Army Stryker Brigade and the enabling forces necessary to support them later this summer," Obama said in a statement issued by the White House. About 8,000 Marines are expected to go in first, followed by about 9,000 Army troops. Some 34,000 U.S. troops are already in Afghanistan. "There is no more solemn duty as president than the decision to deploy our armed forces into harm's way," Obama added. "I do it today mindful that the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan demands urgent attention and swift action. The Taliban is resurgent in Afghanistan, and al Qaeda supports the insurgency and threatens America from its safe-haven along the Pakistani border." Of the 17,000 troops authorized, deployment orders have been issued for 12,000 and some of those are being reassigned from roles in Iraq. Where the remaining 5,000 troops will come from will be determined later. The Marine unit is from Camp Lejeune, N.C.. The Stryker unit is from the 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division out of Fort Lewis, Wash. The Stryker brigade was originally ordered last fall to go to Iraq. It is now at the National Training Center in the Mojave Desert, training for deployment. Deployment likely in south Most of the extra forces are expected to be sent to southern Afghanistan, where a shortage of U.S. and NATO troops face an intensifying Taliban insurgency. The new troops could be a down payment on an even larger influx of U.S. forces that has been widely expected this year, and it will get forces in place in time for the increase in fighting that usually comes with warmer weather and ahead of national midyear elections. Earlier Tuesday, Obama said the situation in Afghanistan "actually appears to be deteriorating at this point." "I'm absolutely convinced that you cannot solve the problem of Afghanistan, the Taliban and the spread of extremism in the region solely through military means," he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in an interview ahead of his trip to Ottawa on Thursday. "We're going to have to use diplomacy, we're going to have to use development."
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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday ordered an additional 17,000 American troops into Afghanistan to reinforce embattled U.S. and NATO forces fighting a deepening Taliban insurgency.
In a statement issued by the White House, Mr. Obama said
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...more than the number of French troops on the ground." He declined to say if and when the French would offer any more troops for Afghanistan. Morin said in various radio and newspaper interviews since Sunday that France already had made a considerable effort...
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KansasCity.com
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...the war in Afghanistan is being increasingly waged in isolated villages and towns.Virtually none of the new troops heading to Afghanistan will go to Kabul or other major Afghan cities. By contrast, when the Bush administration dispatched 30,000 new troops...
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Wall Street Journal
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President Barack Obama told Americans on Sunday a substantial number of the 140,000 U.S. troops in Iraq would be home within a year, saying Iraqis were now ready to take more responsibility for their own security. Obama, who inherited two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, pledged during his presidential campaign to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq within 16 months, at a rate of one or two brigades a month. In an interview with NBC television, Obama praised the provincial elections held in Iraq at the weekend, the most peaceful polls since U.S.-led forces invaded in 2003 to topple Saddam Hussein. Asked in the NBC interview whether a substantial number of troops would be home in time for next year's Super Bowl, the National Football League's championship game being played on Sunday, Obama replied: "Yes. We are going to roll out in a very formal fashion what our intentions are in Iraq as well as Afghanistan." The Obama administration has launched a comprehensive review of America's strategy in Afghanistan, where NATO-led forces are struggling to cope with spiraling violence and a resurgent Taliban militancy. The administration is considering almost doubling the U.S. force in Afghanistan from 36,000 to more than 60,000 within 18 months. Obama, who held talks with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon last week, has said he wants a responsible and phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. The United States signed a a military deal with Iraq last year that set a 2011 deadline for U.S. forces to quit the country. "In conversations I have had with the joint chiefs, with commanders on the ground, I think we have a sense, now that the Iraqis just had a very significant election with no significant violence, we are in a position to put more responsibility on the Iraqis," Obama said in the interview. He also said one of the more sobering moments of his young presidency was having to sign letters to send to families of slain soldiers. Some 644 U.S. soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan and 4,236 in Iraq.
The mission for US forces in Afghanistan has evolved beyond just the military to also trying to safeguard fledgling institutions in danger of falling into the control of an increasingly popular Taliban. Al Jazeera's Josh Rushing joins US troops on the frontline to file this report from Wardak province.
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...prepared to do more and doing more from our side of the world would make a difference," Fitzgibbon said. "Even doubling our troops in Afghanistan will make no difference if others are not prepared to do more and there is no overarching plan for better success,"...
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KansasCity.com
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...as the country becomes one of his foreign policy priorities. There are some 70,000 foreign soldiers, including 33,000 U.S. troops, in Afghanistan, the highest number since the Taliban were ousted from power in the 2001 U.S. invasion. The majority of the American...
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FOX News
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...said in a statement. "We will not let terror deter us from continuing our aid to the Afghan people." Germany has 3,200 troops in Afghanistan, mainly in the country's north. That region is considerably more peaceful than the country's east or south, but German...
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...said in a statement. «We will not let terror deter us from continuing our aid to the Afghan people. Germany has 3,200 troops in Afghanistan, mainly in the country's north. That region is considerably more peaceful than the country's east or south, but German...
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PR-Inside.com
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Bob Herbert: Doubling troops in Afghanistan a terrible idea By David Edwards The Washington Post reports the Army is building $1.1 billion worth of military facilities in Afghanistan. And President-elect Obama is sending 3,000 more U.S. troops as well. Is this the right course of action? Rachel Maddow is joined by Washington Post columnist Bob Herbert. This video is from MSNBCs The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast Jan. 13, 2009.
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...the highest number since the U.S.-led invasion to oust the Taliban from power began in 2001. In 2008, 151 American troops died in Afghanistan, more than in any other year since 2001. In Kandahar, Biden "reaffirmed his and President-elect Barack Obama's pledge...
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CTV
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...troops expected in the country's south will need more support to beat back surging Taliban violence. About 32,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan serve alongside another 32,000 other NATO-led and coalition troops, the highest number since the invasion to oust the...
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Columbus Dispatch
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...troops expected in the country's south will need more support to beat back surging Taliban violence. Some 32,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan serve alongside another 32,000 other NATO-led and coalition troops, the highest number since the invasion to oust the...
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WCCO
http://wcco.com/politics/Joe.Biden.Troops.2.904772.html
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...south we will need those additional enablers to cover for the troops," he said. The U.S. is rushing up to 30,000 American troops over to Afghanistan, some of whom will go to its volatile southern provinces, to combat a Taliban insurgency that has sent violence...
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Houston Chronicle
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...will need those additional enablers to cover for the troops," Julian said. The U.S. is rushing up to 30,000 American troops over to Afghanistan, some of whom will go to its volatile southern provinces, to combat a Taliban insurgency that has sent violence...
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Denver Post
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...you for your service." The senator from Delaware will take office as vice president on Jan. 20. There are some 32,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan serving alongside another 32,000 other NATO-led and coalition troops, the highest number since the ouster of the...
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CBS2 Chicago
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...can work on development and governance," he said. In addition to the 151 U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan this year, British troops suffered 50 deaths, and Canadian troops 28. Other countries in the 41-nation coalition lost 56 troops combined. Afghan police...
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The US administration is planning to send between 20,000 and 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan by next summer.
The US administration is planning to send between 20,000 and 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan by next summer.
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...in combat, but we haven't had enough forces to hold the territory that we clear." Overall, there are more than 60,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan. Mullen said any increased U.S. deployment would be directly tied to force levels in Iraq, where U.S. commanders...
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eTaiwan News
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...but we haven't had enough forces to hold the territory that we clear," he said. Overall, there are more than 60,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan. Mullen said any increased U.S. deployment would be directly tied to force levels in Iraq, where U.S. commanders...
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...pour thousands of additional troops into Afghanistan by next summer. Commanders have called for up to 20,000 more U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and addressing the situation there is fast becoming the United States' leading military priority. The need is especially...
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The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2008517366_apbushafghanistan.html?syndication=rss
Former U.S. Army officer John Nagl, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, met with General McKiernan last month and speaks with Martin Savidge about the threat posed in Afghanistan and why these troops are needed. To learn more and hear from other guests on the topic, visit http://worldfocus.org/blog/2008/12/11/more-us-troops-could-secure-afghanistan-in-2009/3197/ Worldfocus video podcast: http://feeds.feedburner.com/worldfocus
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...In addition to the U.S., other nations, including France and Britain, have also said that they will be sending more troops into Afghanistan. Gates spoke to troops stationed in the region about the changes soon to come. “The size and scope of your mission is...
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... Friday, December 12, 2008 KANDAHAR: The United States aims to send at least an extra 7,000 troops to Afghanistan by next summer but must also do more to involve Afghans in the fight against a rising insurgency, Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday....
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Stephen Kinzer, Author, former New York Times foreign correspondent, argues that sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan won't bring security to the Afghan people. The U.S. needs to adopt a rational policy, which would acknowledge that not everyone now affiliated with the Taliban has to be our enemy. We need a surge of diplomacy, not troops. Ask President-elect Obama for a Just Foreign Policy: Take action now at www.justforeignpolicy.org.
Flashpoints & Giants Researcher Steve Quayle talked about his latest research into giants. Quayle alleged that shadowy elements of the government are keeping giants in suspended animation at secret labs in order to study their genetics. According to his sources, the body temperature of the giants "runs around 120 to 130 degrees" and that "these guys can go 40 miles per hour in two steps." Quayle was later joined by an anonymous pilot who claimed to have transported a dead giant, shot by the military, while stationed in Afghanistan. He estimated that the creature was "12 feet tall, give or take" and "around 1,100 pounds." The pilot noted that the being had six fingers on each hand and its feet were adorned with "rudimentary shoes" made of canvas. According to what his superiors told him, the giant body was eventually "transloaded back to a base in Ohio."
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...have been locked in some of the fiercest fighting this year. The Pentagon is planning to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan, and they are expected to be sent to the restive areas in the south. But those troops will not arrive for several months. The...
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/story/802696.html
A look at british and american troops in afghanistan, comparing the us marines core and the british marines, you make up your mind, ha we are allies and we will always back up america where ever they go.
Casualties among US and Nato troops in Afghanistan have been rising and the US-led foreign forces accuse Iran of supplying the Taliban with sophisticated weapons. Some of those weapons, including landmines, have been intercepted at the border by the Afghan police. Al Jazeera's David Chater reports from Afghanistan on the power game being played out amid the conflict.
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