Drone attacks may be expanded in Pakistan
Reporting from Washington - Senior U.S. officials are pushing to expand CIA drone strikes beyond Pakistan's tribal region and into a major city in an attempt to pressure the Pakistani government to pursue Taliban leaders based in Quetta.The proposal has opened a contentious new front in the clandestine war. The ...
The Nine Surges of Obama's War
Despite the seeming specificity of the speech, it gave little sense of just how big and how expensive this surge will be. In fact, what is being portrayed in the media as the surge of November 2009 is but a modest part of an ongoing expansion of the U.S. war ...
Winning hearts and wallets in Afghanistan
Two of the biggest goals for U.S. forces in Afghanistan are building up Afghan security forces and convincing Taliban fighters to lay down their arms -- and cash could come into play in achieving both. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who arrived in Afghanistan Tuesday on an unannounced trip, said ...
Police: Attack on Pakistan intel office kills 12
MULTAN, Pakistan—A team of militants launched a gun, rocket and suicide attack on an intelligence office in central Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 12 people in a strike that showed the insurgents can hit deep in the heart of the country.The raid in Multan signaled the relentless determination of militants, despite ...
US says bin Laden sometimes slips into Afghanistan
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden may periodically slip back into Afghanistan from his remote hideout in neighboring Pakistan, a senior White House official says, adding a new twist to the mystery of the elusive terrorist's whereabouts.President Barack Obama's national security adviser, James Jones, said bin Laden, believed hiding mainly in ...
Karzai Says He'll Need U.S. Help for 15-20 Years
KABUL, Afghanistan Dec. 8, 2009 — Afghan President Hamid Karzai made it clear today that his country's security forces will need 15 to 20 years of financial and training assistance. Karzai made his statement at a news conference with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and just a week after President Obama ...
Let others deal with the details of President Obama’s Afghan speech, with the on-ramps and off-ramps, those 30,000 U.S. troops going in and just where they will be deployed, the benchmarks for what’s called “good governance” in Afghanistan, the corruption of the Karzai regime, the viability of counterinsurgency warfare, the ...
A Last-Minute Meeting On Afghanistan
President Obama convened a last-minute meeting of his national security team tonight to discuss the language that his administration will use to describe its new strategy for Afghanistan. Two administration sources confirmed that the meeting, which began at 5:00 pm, included cabinet officials like Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The officials ...
Inouye wants more Afghanistan war funds considered by authorizers
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye has indicated that he won’t approve any additional request for Afghanistan war money without proper debate and scrutiny.Inouye (D-Hawaii) said he expects to see a request for an increase in war funds in the form of an emergency war supplemental next spring. Such a ...
President vs. party on troop increase
President Obama will reveal his new Afghanistan war strategy in a speech Tuesday evening to cadets at West Point, but his most skeptical audience is likely to be the powerful Democrats on Capitol Hill who oppose a troop buildup. Top Democrats have made it clear to Obama that he will ...
President to meet with lawmakers before war announcement
President Barack Obama will meet with House and Senate leaders from both parties next week before he announces his Afghanistan policy.Multiple Congressional leadership aides have confirmed that Democratic and Republican leaders from both the House and Senate, as well as key committee chairman and ranking members, are scheduled to meet ...
Obama to announce Afghanistan troop strategy Tuesday
Washington (CNN) -- President Obama will announce the U.S. troop strategy for Afghanistan in a speech at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday. The Pentagon was making detailed plans to send about 34,000 more U.S. ...
Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy. Obama is expected to announce his long-awaited decision ...
U.S. not expecting quick Afghan troop hikes by allies
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. allies will likely wait weeks before deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan rather than responding immediately to President Barack Obama's coming announcement on U.S. forces, the Pentagon said Tuesday. "I don't think there's an expectation that you're going to see a bunch of nations ...
Blood's in the water over news media leaks
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's internal debate over Afghan policy has escalated into a battle of news media leaks that's straining relations between officials who are seeking a major troop increase and those who want a more limited approach and a greater focus on domestic priorities.The feud also has poisoned ...
Suicide bombing near US base in Afghanistan: officials
KABUL — A suicide bomber struck near a US military base in Kabul on Friday, wounding foreign soldiers and Afghan civilians less than a week before the inauguration of President Hamid Karzai, officials said.Kabul has been hit by a rising number of suicide bombings claimed by the Taliban, whose insurgency ...
Obama Seeks Signal for Eventual End to Afghan War
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is seeking a path forward in Afghanistan that combines elements of options considered so far and includes a way to signal that the U.S. war commitment has limits, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.Obama isn’t tossing out existing options entirely, Gates told reporters traveling ...
US envoy to Kabul urges against new troops: report
WASHINGTON — The US envoy to Afghanistan has written memos to Washington expressing deep concern over possible deployment of thousands of new troops to the country, US media said Wednesday, citing senior US officials.Ambassador Karl Eikenberry's classified cables reportedly detail his strong reservations against sending reinforcements until Afghan President Hamid ...
U.S. ambassador dissents on Afghan troop increase
The U.S. ambassador in Kabul sent two classified cables to Washington in the last week expressing deep concerns about sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan until Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government demonstrates that it is willing to tackle the corruption and mismanagement that has fueled the Taliban's rise, said senior ...
Obama, Security Team Meet as Afghan Decision Nears
Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama met with his top national security advisers today to discuss four options for strategy in Afghanistan as he draws closer to deciding whether to commit more U.S. troops to the war.The president hasn’t made a final decision on the deployment and believes the ...
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