Facing Afghan mistrust, al-Qaeda fighters take limited role in insurgency
On Aug. 14, a U.S. airstrike in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz killed a Taliban commander known as Abu Baqir. In a country where insurgents are killed daily, this attack was notable for one unusual detail: Abu Baqir, the military said afterward, was also a member of al-Qaeda. Although ...
2 U.S. troops killed in operation targeting Taliban, al Qaeda
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Three service members, including two U.S. service members, have died as troops conduct an operation targeting al Qaeda and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's Kunar province, the military said Sunday. A combined force of more than 600 Afghan and International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops were conducting ...
9 ISAF soldiers killed in Afghanistan
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Nine members of NATO-led forces were killed Monday in several attacks in Afghanistan, officials said. Two U.S. soldiers were killed when an improvised explosive device detonated Monday in eastern Afghanistan, NATO-led forces said. Lt. Col. Tadd Sholtis, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force, said ...
Video Shows Taliban Swarming Mountaintop Base
KABUL — Taliban fighters swarmed over a mountaintop base abandoned last week by the U.S. military following some of the toughest fighting of the Afghan war, according to footage aired Monday by a major satellite television station. The video by Al-Jazeera television is a morale booster for Taliban fighters, though ...
American troops pull out of Korengal Valley as strategy shifts
American troops have withdrawn from a notorious valley in eastern Afghanistan that has seen some of the worst fighting of the war, with commanders citing a shift in strategy. A low-key press release yesterday announced the “realignment” of US forces out of the Korengal Valley, where 42 American soldiers have ...
Afghan war kills three children a day: report
KABUL — Children are the biggest victims of the war in Afghanistan, with more than 1,050 people under 18 years old killed last year alone, according to an Afghan human rights watchdog. Taliban-linked militants caused around 64 percent of all violent child deaths last year, the Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) ...
"An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind."Mahatma GandhiThree events over the holidays have caused me great consternation and they proved to me that I am not so cynical and jaded that my government can't still shock me, if anythingOf course, the first event has to be ...
Afghan parliament rejects most Cabinet nominees
KABUL (AP) — Afghanistan's parliament dealt a stinging rebuke to President Hamid Karzai on Saturday by rejecting 70% of his nominees for a new cabinet, including a regionally powerful warlord and the country's only female minister.The laborious voting that took much of Saturday ended with the rejection of 17 of ...
Kabul demands foreign 'killers' handed over
KABUL — The Afghan government demanded Thursday to take into its custody foreigners wanted over the alleged killing of 10 civilians, sharply escalating a war of words with its powerful Western military backers.The National Security Council (NSC) made the demand at talks chaired by President Hamid Karzai, who has been ...
Hamid Karzai demands US hand over gunmen who killed children
President Karzai’s security chiefs have demanded that America should hand over the gunmen behind a night raid in eastern Afghanistan that government investigators and the United Nations say killed at least eight schoolchildren.It was the Afghan Government’s most aggressive response yet to an alleged attack on civilians. But the US ...
Afghans protest civilian deaths in foreign raid
ASADABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets on Wednesday to protest against the killing of 10 civilians, mostly teenagers, in a raid by foreign forces, which heightened tensions between the Afghan government and NATO.President Hamid Karzai rapidly condemned the attack and ordered an investigation, but his ...
Afghanistan children killed 'during Western operation'
At least 10 Afghan civilians, including eight schoolchildren, have been killed in fighting involving Western troops, President Hamid Karzai has said.Mr Karzai said the deaths occurred during military operations in eastern Kunar province two days ago. Kunar governor Sayed Fazlullah Wahedi told the Reuters news agency officials could not visit ...
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June 5th, 2013
Here's How We Built a Movie Theater for the People – and Why the MPAA Says It's #1 in the World
This past week, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the main federation of Hollywood's six major studios, posted on their web site a list of what they believe ...
March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
March 13th, 2013
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The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
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December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
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November 22nd, 2011
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This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
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