Here’s an excellent and quick read on how a civilian casualty caused by Coalition forces can quickly spiral into chaos. An Irish Embedded Training Team of eight soldiers with a platoon of Afghan troops (about 30 soldiers) faces a mutiny after a mother is wounded and her daughter is killed. The Times Online excepts from […]
Iraq™s ambivalence about the American military
Muslim terrorists killed three officials in a bombing in Yala, two soldiers in an attack on a checkpoint in Narathiwat, and one villager in Pattani; 21 other persons were wounded in the attacks. Terrorists also wounded 26 civilians in a bombing near a restaurant in Narathiwat.
US transfers 2 from Guantanamo Bay to Portugal
Abu Sayyaf leader extradited to US for kidnapping
Chechnya and its neighbors suffer a relapse
Organized crime in Pakistan feeds Taliban
Pakistan bans coverage of Mumbai 26/11 trial
Suicide bombers killed nine policemen in Shurqat and six civilians in Sinjar; 37 Iraqis were wounded in both attacks. Security forces detained 14 wanted men in Basrah and two Naqshabandiya members in Makhmour. Two US soldiers were killed in an IED attack in Baghdad on Aug. 28.
Presidential candidate Abdullah said he would not accept a Karzai victory. A suicide bomber killed two Afghans in Zabul province. Afghan and Coalition forces killed six Taliban fighters in Farah province, three in Ghazni province, and killed one Taliban fighter and detained two commanders in Kunar province. The Taliban killed two civilians in Khost province.
UAE reports ship seizure with NKorea arms for Iran
Lockerbie bomber release was wrong, Scots say in poll
US applies Colombia antidrug lessons to Afghanistan
Afghanistan: The Taliban push back
Turkey to increase military presence in Afghanistan
Top officer says US bungling Muslim outreach
Germany arrests suspect in plot to attack US targets
Somali militants recruit in Nairobi slum
McMaster rewrites army vision
Fury at Nato’s Afghan clinic raid
2 US soldiers killed in Baghdad
Security forces killed six Taliban fighters in Malakand and detained seven Turks, three Swedes, a Russian, and an Iranian as they attempted to enter Pakistan. The Taliban beheaded five people in Khyber, killed a tribal leader and kidnapped another in Mohmand, wounded another in Bajaur, and also kidnapped eight Christians in North Waziristan. AQ Khan […]
This should not come as a surprise to readers of The Long War Journal. From TIME: But after initial promises to launch a ground offensive in South Waziristan, the Pakistanis have backed off. A top Pakistani general, Nadeem Ahmed, recently said preparation for such an operation could take up to two months. Now, there will […]
MacKay to NATO allies: Don’t look to Canada for more troops
NATO directive followed by drop of Afghan civilian deaths: Data
The UN urged Tehran to reveal the “military dimensions” of its nuclear program. The IAEA claimed Iran is slowing production of low-enrichment uranium. President Ahmadinejad claimed that allegations of prisoner abuse were part of a foreign “enemy plot.”
Algeria provides Mali military aid against al-Qaeda-linked group
Iraqi official’s top aide linked to Shi’ite terrorists
Afghan forces killed seven Taliban fighters and captured four members of the al Qaeda-linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in Kunduz province. Coalition and Afghan forces captured six Taliban fighters in Kandahar province. A US solider was killed in an IED attack in eastern Afghansitan.
Pakistan’s non-campaign against the Taliban