"Kabul meeting to lay ground for 2014 deadline" by Robert H. Reid, Associated Press Writer | July 19, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan --The strategy sits for now on a table in a locked-down Afghan capital: Hand over security in all 34 provinces to the government by the end of 2014 -- more than three years after President Barack Obama's date for the start of an American troop drawdown.
I'm glad I never took that 2011 talk seriously.
By Tuesday, it will be adopted at a one-day international conference, giving war-weary Americans and Europeans a date for when their involvement in Afghanistan may begin to come to an end....
Isn't that the damn truth -- and no false-flag "terror" event will make us feel otherwise.
In fact, THAT WILL BACKFIRE as well because it will PROVE that the WARRING FAILED and thus they will have to STOP!!
How can they come back to us again and ASK US to AGAIN SUPPORT a POLICY that has FAILED so ABYSMALLY?
The conference comes at a time of growing anxiety in the U.S. and Europe about the course of the war -- concerns underscored by Taliban attacks on Monday that killed six Afghan police and two American soldiers. A major security operation virtually shut down Kabul for the conference in which some 60 nations will focus on the postwar transition....
Yeah, leaders tend to get anxious when wars start turning against them.
Corruption and mismanagement that have bolstered the Taliban in the eyes of many ordinary Afghans.
Yes, contrary to the daily dose of diarrhea we receive in the newspaper here in AmerikA, the Taliban are now viewed as defenders of the people. That kind of thing usually happens when you send missiles into an area and kick down doors.
Talk of lofty development goals will take place against the backdrop of rising casualties, especially in the Taliban strongholds of the south and east.
Mindful that public patience is running out, the delegates will endorse the goal of gradually turning over security to Afghan forces by the time Karzai leaves office at the end of 2014, according to a draft communique obtained by The Associated Press....
It is not running out, it's been exhausted for some time.
And that's what AP calls taking a government handout now?
Obtaining? Like they actually did some work?
Did you know I obtained a Boston Globe today?
If NATO follows the model used in Iraq, the coalition will likely keep substantial numbers of troops in Afghanistan through much of the transition to help train Afghan forces and to intervene if the Afghans cannot control security and prevent the Taliban from mounting a comeback in provinces cleared of major insurgent forces.
Oh, great, they are BASING the POLICY on the FAILED SURGE in IRAQ!
Have you SEEN IRAQ'S POLITICS LATELY?
Never mind the FAILED RECONSTRUCTION and NEAR NONEXISTENT SOCIAL SERVICES!
Although Obama said in December that U.S. troops would begin coming home in July 2011, he did not say how many troops would leave then.
Yeah, the fact that he is just as big a liar as the last guy has been a real bummer over here.
Of course, nowhere near the same as it has been for the targets of Obomber's empire.
Critics complained that the date signaled to the Taliban that all they had to do was hold out until the Americans and their allies were gone....
One year, four years, what's the difference?
The Taliban have already lasted nine years and they are the strongest they have ever been.
TIME to COME HOME, America!
The WAR is NO LONGER worth the LIE, is it?
Ahead of the conference, representatives of Britain and Afghanistan's neighbor, Pakistan, said some troops may have to remain past 2014 to help train Afghan forces....
Oh, so EVEN THAT is a DAMN LIE PARADED before the American people so we will calm down, huh?
Underscoring the security challenge, bombs killed six Afghan policemen in the biggest southern city of Kandahar and two American troops in the south, Afghan and U.S. officials said. The American deaths brought to 42 the number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan this month....
You may notice that I am none too concerned about allied deaths these days.
My attitude is f*** 'em; they are all choosing to die for the lie and I'm exhausted after four years of hollering for an end and now they are holding out another carrot.
--more--"Related: Afghanistan exit strategy under scrutiny (By Richard A. Oppel Jr., New York Times)
You are welcome to read the stinking PoS that I glanced at.
So what do you have to look forward to for the next four years, allies and all?
"NATO attack mistakenly kills 5 Afghan soldiers; Communication failure possible" by Rahim Faiez and Kay Johnson, Associated Press | July 8, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — A botched NATO airstrike killed five Afghan soldiers after they were mistaken for insurgents early yesterday, highlighting continued weak coordination between international troops and the local security forces they are striving to build.
Great start, huh?
Any coincidence it comes as Petraeus takes over?
An Afghan defense official condemned the “friendly fire’’ deaths in the eastern province of Ghazni. They came as three more American troops were reported killed in the south and Britain announced it would turn over control of a violence-plagued southern district to US forces.
US General David Petraeus, the newly arrived commander of international forces in Afghanistan, offered personal condolences to the families of the dead Afghan soldiers, a spokesman said.
A joint Afghan-international investigation was continuing into how the mistake happened, NATO spokesman Brigadier General Josef Blotz said....
I'll bet Afghans are tired of hearing it.
Training and working with the Afghan army and police is one of the cornerstones of NATO’s counterinsurgency strategy, which the alliance is counting on to beat back insurgents’ gains, nearly nine years after US-backed forces toppled the Taliban’s hard-line Islamist regime.
The aim is to win over the population by limiting Afghan casualties while securing new areas, eventually turning control over to local army and police and allowing foreign troops to withdraw....
When you have read BS so many times....
So many Afghan security forces are being recruited and trained so fast that coordination is bound to lag behind, Afghan analyst Haroun Mir said.
Did I mention I have run out of patience for war-promoting excuse-makers?
Related: Afghanistan's Invisible Army
If we keep killing them they will be.
Yesterday’s airstrike is unlikely to damage NATO’s relations in Afghanistan as much as unintended civilian deaths do, said Mir, director of the Afghan Center for Research and Policy studies. That’s because soldiers understand that “friendly fire’’ is an inevitable part of war, he said.
Are you flipping kidding me?
The Afghan soldiers were launching an ambush before dawn against insurgents, who were reportedly on the move, when NATO aircraft began firing on them without warning, said General Mohammad Zahir Azimi, Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman.
Five Afghan soldiers died and two were wounded in the airstrike in Ghazni’s Andar district, he said.
Violence has been increasing across Afghanistan, coinciding with the arrival of thousands of American soldiers for a new push to try to establish Afghan government control in the south, the Taliban’s strongest area of influence.
NATO said three American troops were killed by a roadside bomb in the south Tuesday. It did not identify them or give any other details.
Britain said it will withdraw its troops from the Sangin valley in Helmand province, which has been the deadliest area for British forces, accounting for 99 of its 312 soldiers killed since 2001.
Britain’s military said US forces would move into Sangin in October. Britain has about 10,000 troops in Afghanistan, most based in Helmand.
Yup, not only are YOU STAYING LONGER, America, but you are TAKING OVER MORE OCCUPATION AREAS while the "coalition" leaves -- just like the Iraq surge!
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"Coalition forces capture Taliban commander" by Associated Press | July 10, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — International and Afghan troops captured a Taliban commander responsible for bringing Pakistani militants across the border to launch attacks, the alliance said yesterday as US-led forces intensify their pursuit of insurgent leaders.
The coalition is hailing a string of successes in capturing or killing dozens of key militant leaders since April, but it has not managed to reduce violent insurgent attacks across the country.
Yup, the MORE WE WIN the MORE we are LOSING!
WTF?!?!
Two NATO service members died yesterday in separate roadside bombs in the south, and an explosion ripped into a convoy of NATO and Afghan forces in an eastern province, killing one civilian and wounding nine others. Last month was the most deadly of the nearly nine-year-old war for international troops, with 103 foreign forces killed....
Then LEAVE and NONE of them WILL DIE!
While international forces patrol new areas to try to protect the population, their comrades in special forces, working with elite Afghan commandos, have been staging raids almost every night trying to weaken the insurgents’ operational capacity.
On Tuesday, coalition and Afghan special forces arrested a Taliban commander in the eastern province of Nangarhar. NATO officials said the man — whom they would not identify for security reasons — facilitated an influx of operatives for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistani militia accused in the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks and suspected in a string of more recent attacks in Afghanistan....
Yeah, whatever, MSM. You haul him up out of a grave like the rest of them?
Joint Afghan-international raids have led to the arrest of more than 100 Taliban figures since April, NATO says. In the past two weeks, at least 23 mid- and senior-level insurgent leaders and 217 lower-level fighters have been captured or killed, it says.
Makes you wonder why and how it is all getting worse, huh?
Also see: The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: False Flags Flying High in Afghanistan
Whassat?
“We’ve stepped up operations over the last six months,’’ said NATO spokesman Colonel Wayne Shanks. “What this is, is directly targeting the insurgent network, their leadership, their facilitators who bring in either weapons, supplies, money, resources.’’
The campaign against the Taliban leadership echoes a strategy used successfully against both Sunni and Shi’ite insurgents in Iraq.
I love conventional myths posing as news and being endlessly repeated, don't you?
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"6 US troops die in Afghan attacks; American toll for the month increases to 23" by Kay Johnson, Associated Press | July 11, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — A wave of attacks killed six US troops and at least a dozen civilians yesterday in Afghanistan’s volatile south and east, as American reinforcements moving into Taliban-dominated areas face up to the fierce resistance they expected....
In yesterday’s deadliest attack, in the eastern border province of Paktia, unidentified gunmen killed 11 Pakistanis who had crossed into Afghanistan to buy supplies, said Rohullah Samon, spokesman for the provincial governor.
More "friendly" fire?
Samon said 11 Shi’ite minority Muslim tribesmen died and three people were wounded in the ambush of their minibus in Chamkani district.
I'm sorry, but I no longer buy the sectarian bull pushed forth by my agenda-pushing MSM newspaper -- especially after they lived together and intermarried for centuries until we got there.
Elsewhere in Paktia, Afghan and international forces also said a combined commando unit killed a Taliban operative and captured eight others in a raid, though local villagers later staged a small protest, saying the men were innocent civilians.
As they ALL ARE since the reason for being there is a DAMNABLE INSIDE JOB!
Another, larger protest in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif involved another night raid that killed two security guards near a market earlier last week.
Really winning them over, huh?
A crowd of more than 1,000 crowd chanted “Death to America! Long live Islam!’’ Protesters said the security guards were unjustly killed when combined Afghan and international forces landed by helicopter at the bazaar before dawn Wednesday.
And started shooting, huh?
What, did they think they were Israelis boarding an aid flotilla?
NATO spokesman Colonel Wayne Shanks said the two guards were shot when they raised their weapons at the commandos and refused orders to put them down.
Yeah, they didn't know who the hell was coming at them, but....
Hey, it ain't like they live there or anything.
He said the raid succeeded in capturing a Taliban-allied operative who supplied bomb-making material.
Like the U.S. military has any credibility left.
And yet the SITUATION CONTINUES to GET WORSE!!
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"Official, 11 Afghan police die in attacks; Once-calm north sees violence rise" by Associated Press | July 12, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — Militant attacks in once-calm northern Afghanistan killed at least 11 police officers and a government official whose car was hit by a remote-controlled bomb, officials said yesterday.
In the south, a combined NATO and Afghan patrol killed a senior Taliban commander and a dozen other insurgents who were discovered planting a homemade bomb on a road, the alliance said. It also said a US service member died yesterday after an insurgent attack....
International and Afghan commandos have been conducting near-nightly raids to capture or kill insurgents, while the Taliban has launched attacks on army bases and local officials and planted thousands of roadside bombs.
Insurgents in Kunduz province overran a checkpoint near the northern border with Tajikistan on Saturday, killing at least six of the nine border police stationed there, said the provincial deputy police chief, Abdul Rahman Aqtash.
Some reports said the guards were poisoned before the attack to make it easier for the insurgents, said Mahbobullah Sayedi, a spokesman for the provincial government....
Aqtash tried yesterday to go to the site of the attack, but was forced to turn back when another gun battle on the road to the border made it unsafe to travel, he said by telephone.
Northern Afghanistan was once relatively calm, but Taliban and other militants have become increasingly active in the past two years.
Yeah, is this thing ever going DOWNHILL FAST, America!
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So let's get in deeper:
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan soldier killed three British service members with gunfire and a rocket-propelled grenade in the middle of the night, a betrayal that highlights the difficulties in rapidly building Afghan security forces so that foreign troops can go home.
Maybe it was just friendly fire?
Don't Brits accept this as an inevitable part of war like Afghans?
Yeah, it is lies all the way around in an AmeriKan newspaper.
The soldier fled after carrying out the attack in southern Afghanistan early yesterday, leaving his motive unclear.
But the Taliban claimed he was a militant sympathizer who was taken in by insurgents after the assault, one which could further weaken support in Britain for an unpopular war that has now taken the lives of 317 Britons.
In London, Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the killings as appalling but insisted they should not change NATO’s strategy of working alongside the Afghan Army. Four other British service members were wounded in the attack on a base in Nahr-i-Saraj district of Helmand Province that is home to members of the First Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles.
Hey, your guy wants to stay there so f*** ya!
It was the second time in eight months that an Afghan turned against British troops partnering with local security forces. In November, an Afghan policeman killed five British soldiers at a checkpoint in Helmand.
Then LEAVE and they WON'T DO THAT!
Afghan police in the past have also attacked American soldiers and their own police stations, though such intentional attacks are rare.
Whatever you say, MSM.
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"Eight US troops killed as violence rises in southern Afghanistan" by Kay Johnson, Associated Press | July 15, 2010
Gee, Americans being WASTED over there EVERY DAY, huh?
KABUL, Afghanistan — In a brutal 24-hour period, eight American troops were killed in attacks including an audacious Taliban raid on a police compound in the key southern city of Kandahar, officials said yesterday.
The United States and its coalition allies have warned that violence and casualties could mount this summer as thousands of new forces fan out across southern insurgent strongholds in a bid to turn around the nearly nine-year-long war.
However, a top US commander in the south said yesterday that the new operation should start reducing violence in coming months.
That thumping you hear is Orwell rolling over in his grave.
So far in July, 45 coalition troops have died in Afghanistan, 33 of them Americans, continuing the upward trend of the previous month, which was the war’s deadliest for the NATO-led force, with 103 international soldiers killed.
A suicide attacker slammed a car bomb into the gate of the headquarters of the elite Afghan National Civil Order Police late Tuesday night in Kandahar, the international force said. Minutes later, insurgents opened fire with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.
Three US troops, an Afghan policeman, and five civilians — three interpreters and two security guards — died in the attack, but NATO said the insurgents were prevented from entering the compound.
Four more American troops were killed elsewhere in the south by a roadside bomb, while another service member died the same day of wounds from a gun battle, also in the south. NATO gave no further details of those attacks.
The special Civil Order Police had only recently sent 600 more officers to Kandahar to set up checkpoints along with international forces to try to secure the south’s largest city, the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban.
Also in Kandahar, a progovernment cleric and member of a local people’s council was gunned down in a mosque yesterday.
Haji Khalifa, a member of the Pajawai district shura, or council, was shot dead as he prayed, said provincial shura member Agha Haji Lalai.
I'm sorry, but not even the most pious Taliban does that.
That's a CIA hit team right there.
Also see: Petraeus' Private Eyes
Or whoever.
He said assassinations have increased in Kandahar as insurgents make the point they can still operate despite the extra security.
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"Health team kidnapped in volatile Afghan area" by Associated Press | July 16, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — Gunmen kidnapped five Health Ministry employees in Afghanistan’s volatile Kandahar Province while insurgents killed a district official elsewhere, reportedly on the orders of the Taliban supreme leader, officials said yesterday.
Also in the south, two US service members were killed in a roadside bombing, NATO said. No more details were released.
Insurgent bombings, gun battles, assassinations, and abductions have been increasing this year as thousands of American troops partnered with Afghan forces fan out in the militants’ southern strongholds to try to wrest back control and establish effective local government....
The kidnappers were not identified, but Taliban insurgents have been on a spree of assassinations and abductions of government workers. The campaign of fear is especially intense in Kandahar....
See why I am getting sick of reading this s***?
Yeah, never mind the U.S. helping to install them with no problem.
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"NATO strike targets Taliban; Afghan organizer of USAID attack killed, police say" by Kay Johnson, Associated Press | July 17, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — A NATO airstrike killed a Taliban commander responsible for a suicide attack on a US aid program in northern Afghanistan, police said, while a raid killed another insurgent who smuggled in foreign fighters through Iran, officials said yesterday.
Related: Everything is Iran's Fault
I'm just wondering why they almost went to war in the 1990s, but that is just me.
Yeah, I am smelling something.
International troops working with Afghan forces say they have killed or captured dozens of senior insurgent figures since April as they aggressively step up operations against Taliban leadership.
However, those successes have not slowed the pace of militant attacks, which continue daily, killing dozens of people each month.
How many are the foreign invaders killing?
In the northern province of Kunduz, a precision airstrike killed a local Taliban commander who used the alias Qari Latif, the provincial police chief said.
Yup.
Latif died along with 12 other insurgents while they met Thursday in a field under a tree outside the provincial capital, police chief Abdul Razaq Yaqoubi said.
NATO confirmed an airstrike targeted a senior insurgent commander who was at a meeting to choose a new Taliban “shadow governor’’ in a Kunduz district, but the alliance said in a statement it was still investigating the outcome of the airstrike.
The international force said the insurgent chief had boasted of being behind a suicide car bomb on a US Agency for International Development station in Kunduz city earlier this month that killed two civilians and wounded seven others.
In western Farah Province, next to Iran, international and Afghan forces also raided a militant training camp Thursday, killing another Taliban commander and several more insurgents, NATO said.
The slain insurgent leader, identified as Mullah Akhtar, was responsible for bringing foreign fighters into Afghanistan from Iran, a statement said.
Since May 1, at least 12 Taliban commanders have been killed or captured in the southern province of Helmand, NATO said. Several more key insurgents have been taken out in neighboring Kandahar province, an insurgent stronghold.And yet the Taliban just keep getting stronger.
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Better hide it in a brief, Boston Globe:
"Roadside bombs kill 5 NATO troops
KABUL — Five NATO troops died in roadside bombings in Afghanistan, the alliance said yesterday, as international forces announced that they had foiled a terrorist attack on an upcoming conference in Kabul to be attended by leaders from more than 60 nations. Security is being tightened across the capital for Tuesday’s conference, which is attracting the heads of NATO, the United Nations, and diplomats, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. (AP)."
They didn't stop the next one:
"Bomber hits Afghan market despite heightened security; Taliban attacks rise as US troop strength grows" by Rahim Faiez, Associated Press | July 19, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber slipped through the Afghan capital’s tight security ring yesterday, killing three civilians near a busy market two days ahead of an international conference hosting officials from about 60 nations, officials said.
An American service member died in a roadside bombing in the south and other weekend attacks left 14 Afghans dead, reports said. The Taliban have met the arrival of thousands more US troops this year with a rising tide of violence.
The Kabul bomber was walking near the market and his target was unclear, police official Abdul Ghafar Sayedzada said.
Hospitals reported three civilians killed, including a child, public health official Kabir Amiri said. About 45 people were wounded.
Security has been tightened across the capital in advance of tomorrow’s Kabul Conference, which will be attended by the heads of NATO and the United Nations and top diplomats, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Every time those pukes show up bombs start going off.
The meeting, held nearly nine years after US-backed forces toppled the Taliban’s radical Islamist regime, is to discuss the country’s reconstruction and eventual handing over of all security to the Afghan government.
At the conference, the Afghan government will ask international donors to put 80 percent of aid money behind programs that the Afghans — not foreign capitals — deem important to development. The government wants to show the world leaders attending that it is making strides toward running its own affairs.
Thousands of Afghan police were patrolling Kabul trying to prevent any insurgent attack on the meeting or its delegates. Afghan and international officials said Saturday that authorities had arrested a Taliban bomb-maker involved in a separate plot to attack the conference, but they gave no details.
In May, the Taliban briefly disrupted a national peace conference in Kabul with rocket-propelled grenades that landed about 100 yards from the site of the gathering, and insurgents also waged a gun battle with police outside the meeting. Three civilians were wounded.
The NATO-led international force is being bolstered by 30,000 more American troops this year, and allied forces say they have captured or killed dozens of Taliban leaders in recent months. However, their tactics have not been able to reduce insurgent attacks, which have intensified across the country.
An intercepted memo from Afghan Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar indicates the Islamist militants are gearing up for a long fight.
Omar, who is believed to be hiding in Pakistan, urged his followers to obtain more heavy weapons and to assassinate or kidnap any Afghans, especially women, working with President Hamid Karzai’s government, NATO said yesterday.
I'm out of patience with the propaganda, sorry.
That's what NATO liars said, huh?
Taliban fighters yesterday battled government forces for a fourth day in remote Nuristan in the northeast, as insurgents who briefly took over the district of Barg-e-Matal two months ago launched another offensive.
"Another?"
The governor of Nuristan, Jamaludin Badar, denied Taliban claims they had retaken the area.
Then they must be true.
He said 18 insurgents and two police officers have died and thousands of the district’s residents have fled north. Bombings and gun battles that killed and wounded Afghan police were reported in Kandahar and other districts, according to the Ministry of Defense.
Vice President Joe Biden said yesterday that the rising US death toll does not mean that the new counterinsurgency strategy for the war is failing.
Speaking on ABC’s “This Week,’’ Biden said most military strategists expected the summer months to be especially deadly because coalition forces are more frequently engaging the insurgents. He said the surge in troops should be given time to work.The LAST ADMINISTRATION said the SAME about IRAQ!
I thought we GOT RID of them in 2008 and yet HERE THEY ARE AGAIN!!!!
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Aaaaaah, to hell with it:
"Fallen Vermont soldier is laid to rest; Hundreds recall Guardsman killed in Afghanistan" by John Curran, Associated Press | July 18, 2010
ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. — His mother in tears, his 6-year-old daughter proudly singing from the altar, his flag-draped casket carried by an honor guard, a Vermont National Guard soldier was buried yesterday, two weeks after being killed by a roadside bombing in Afghanistan.
Specialist Ryan Grady, 25, was remembered as a big man with a big heart who wanted to serve his country and ended up paying the ultimate price for it....
All over a damn lie.
Grady’s mother, Debbie Hudacek, recalled talking with him online while he was serving.
“I didn’t see [any] action yet,’’ he said in one exchange.
“Maybe that’s God’s way of keeping you safe,’’ she replied.
“But I want to see action,’’ he said.
“And then this happened,’’ Hudacek, of Muskogee, Okla., told the congregation, sobbing.
Earlier that day, Grady had a meal with his brother Kevin, who is also a Vermont National Guard member serving in Afghanistan, according to Major General Michael Dubie, the Guard’s commander.
Grady’s father, James Grady, is a Guard member, too.
Dubie called Grady a patriot, “in the truest sense of the word.’’
“You may ask yourself: What kind of people join the military after Sept. 11? People like Ryan Grady. People who know they may have to serve their country in harm’s way. To me, they are the next ‘greatest generation’ of Americans, that’s what they are,’’ Dubie said at the service.
Is that why they are killing themselves in record numbers?
His brother Jim Grady Jr. said Grady’s size — he was about 6-foot-4 and weighed more than 240 pounds — sometimes intimidated people, but said anyone who met him quickly could tell he had a warm heart. As a soldier, he would sign off on notes with the words “saving the world one mission at a time,’’ his brother said....
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Oh, yeah, one more thing:
"UN considers dropping 10 from sanctions list" by Associated Press | July 13, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — The names of 10 individuals or entities with alleged links to the Taliban are being considered for removal from a UN sanctions list, the top UN official in Afghanistan said yesterday.
Staffan De Mistura said the 10 names, submitted by Afghan officials, were being forwarded to the UN Security Council, which will decide whether to take them off the blacklist that freezes assets and limits travel.
I foresee a U.S. veto.
The list includes the names of 137 individuals and entities — businesses, groups, and organizations — with alleged ties to the Taliban or Al Qaeda.
Does that list include the CIA?
President Hamid Karzai has pushed for the removal of some Taliban figures from the blacklist as a way to encourage militants to stop fighting or enter peace talks....
Those peace talks must be a bunch of whispers because I rarely read of them.
We are there until at least 2014, haven't you heard?
Related: U.N. Says Taliban Not Terrorists
I already knew that; they are simply people who live there and want to be left alone.
