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Wikileaks Doc Dump: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan

By Gideon Swift | Published: July 26, 2010
Source: NYTimes.com A six-year archive of classified military documents made public on Sunday offers an unvarnished, ground-level picture of the war in Afghanistan that is in many respects more grim than the official portrayal. The secret documents, released on the Internet by an organization called WikiLeaks, are a daily diary of an American-led force often [...]
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Marjah residents skeptical of NATO promises

By Gideon Swift | Published: February 18, 2010
The Taliban’s white flag no longer flies over villages across this militant stronghold. Afghan and NATO troops have replaced it with Afghanistan’s official green-and-red banner, which they promise heralds new schools and clinics and good governance. But residents have heard that before, and for many, Taliban rule hasn’t been all that bad. Plenty of Afghans [...]
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First U.S. Official Resigns Over Afghan War

By Gideon Swift | Published: October 27, 2009
A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan has become the first U.S. official to resign in protest of the Afghan war, the Washington Post reported early Tuesday. Matthew Hoh, who describes himself as “not some peacenik, pot-smoking [...]
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British general supports request for 40,000 new troops in Afghanistan

By Gideon Swift | Published: September 29, 2009
Britain’s top general in Afghanistan backed calls for more troops, insisting it would be impossible to deny al-Qaeda their terrorist safe havens by “simply patrolling from the skies”. In an exclusive interview with The Times, Lieutenant-General Jim Dutton, said yesterday that he supported a formal request made by his boss, General Stanley McChrystal, the US [...]
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Taliban defectors: US, Israel funding militants

By Gideon Swift | Published: June 25, 2009
Two militants’ leaders who defected from notorious Taliban chief in Pakistan have revealed that their comrade was pursuing a US-Israeli agenda across the country. A prominent militant leader, Turkistan Bittani, who broke away from Baitullah Mehsud, called him "an American agent". Mehsud, a warlord in his late 30s, has claimed responsibility for dozens of devastating [...]
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