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Obama Plays Down Plan for Post-2011 Iraq Troop Presence
- Inter Press Service
When the Barack Obama administration unveiled its plan last week for an improvised State Department-controlled army of contractors to replace all U.S. combat troops in Iraq by the end of 2011, critics associated with the U.S. command attacked the transition plan, insisting that the United States must continue to assume that U.S. combat forces should and can remain in Iraq indefinitely.
AFGHANISTAN: Task Force 42 and Task Force 121, the Other Secret Killers — Part 3
- Inter Press Service
When Wikileaks, a whistleblower website, released 76,000 incident reports from the U.S. war in Afghanistan, the exploits of a secret military 'capture/kill' team called Task Force 373 was revealed for the first time.
AFGHANISTAN: Task Force 373, the Secret Killers — Part 2
- Inter Press Service
When Danny Hall and Gordon Phillips, the civilian and military directors of the U.S. provincial reconstruction team in Nangahar Province, Afghanistan arrived for a meeting with Gul Agha Sherzai, the local governor, in mid-June 2007, they knew that they had a lot of apologising to do.
AFGHANISTAN: Task Force 373, the Secret Killers — Part 1
- Inter Press Service
'Find, fix, finish, and follow-up' - also known as F4 - is the way the Pentagon describes the mission of secret military teams in Afghanistan which have been given a mandate to pursue alleged members of the Taliban or al Qaeda wherever they may be found. Some call these 'manhunting' operations and the units assigned to them 'capture/kill' teams.
Trial of 'Child Soldier' Opens at Guantanamo
- Inter Press Service
Omar Khadr was only 15 when he was captured by U.S. forces in 2002 in Afghanistan. Now, eight years later, the 23-year-old is on trial in Guantanamo Bay, in the first military commission trial since the beginning of the Barack Obama administration.
ARTS: Walking in the Shoes of a Muslim in New York
- Inter Press Service
A woman waits on a subway platform, head bowed, pretending to ignore the insults. Perched on bar stools, a group of friends listen to racist jokes, suppressing giggles. Kneeling, a young war veteran tells his fiancée of his decision to return to combat. Two men wait expectantly at a job interview. An old man and a young graffiti artist sit together on a bench, discussing the power of language.
Despite Iraq Withdrawal, Greater Mideast Not Looking Good
- Inter Press Service
While President Barack Obama Monday touted the continuing U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq as a key marker in the success of his regional policies, the latest news from the Greater Middle East, as well as a new public opinion survey, is far less encouraging.
Pakistan Poll Finds Widespread Disillusionment
- Inter Press Service
The recent Wikileaks dump of war-related documents has brought little new to the debate over Washington's ongoing military involvement in Afghanistan, but allegations that Pakistan's intelligence services are aiding the Taliban has brought renewed attention to U.S. concerns over its reliance on Islamabad in battling Taliban and al Qaeda forces in Afghanistan.
Obama's Afghanistan Strategy Increasingly Under Siege
- Inter Press Service
Monday's release by WikiLeaks of tens of thousands of classified documents detailing the travails of the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Pakistan's secret support for the Taliban from 2004 through 2009 comes amid a growing crisis of confidence here in the nearly nine-year-old war.
Leaked Reports Make Afghan War Policy More Vulnerable
- Inter Press Service
The 92,000 reports on the war in Afghanistan made public by the whistleblower organisation WikiLeaks, and reported Monday by the Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel, offer no major revelations that are entirely new, as did the Pentagon Papers to which they are inevitably being compared.
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