This week’s NYTimes Sunday Magazine had a silly/destructive article titled “Is Afghanistan a Narco State?” Quick answer: obviously yes. It was written by Thomas Schweich, a professor at Wash U and a drug warrior extraordinaire who seems to believe that advancing America’s failed drug war policies in Afghanistan is more important than stabilizing that troubled […]
Al-Qaida Drawing Foreign Fighters into Afghanistan
Posted by Anne Szustek to findingDulcinea.com According to militants and foreign policy experts, the Islamist terrorist group is building up its forces with dissidents from historically secular Turkey and the countries of Central Asia. The religious traditions of the Turkic peoples are steeped in Sufi mysticism based in the Hanafi school of Islam. Today, press […]
Obama’s Afghan Plan Raises Questions
By Jennifer Koons in London (ARR No. 297, 17-Jul-08) If elected president in the autumn, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama aims to redirect America’s foreign policy focus to combating terrorism in South Asia, but questions remain about the feasibility of his strategy, including how easily the United States will be able to disentangle itself […]
Afghan Bloggers See Trouble Looming
Posted by Joshua Foust to Global Voices Online If there is any one theme to emerge from the Afghan blogosphere lately, it is warning about the future. Sanjar starts things off by noting the slow degradation in Afghan-Western relations: No doubt that there are numerous foreigners who lets say deserve to be in Afghanistan, in […]
Afghanistan Looking Bleaker for Coalition Forces
Posted by FindingDulcinea Staff A massive jailbreak and record month for coalition deaths show the Taliban gaining strength in Afghanistan; a U.S. military official says more troops are needed but are unavailable. Taliban and extremist forces have become a “complex problem” related to the drug trade, a stumbling economy and the border with Pakistan, says […]
1000 Militants Escape from Afghan Prison
Taliban militants created one more disaster in a prison in Afghanistan on Friday night. About 1100 prisoners were escaped from the jail as per the reports. The attackers struck with a bomb concealed in a water tanker that blew apart the prison gates, allowing a suicide bomber to dash inside and destroy two mud walls […]
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