May 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Hill: Iraqis and Afghans who risk their lives to help American troops would be eligible for special visas to the United States under the Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill. The Senate bill would extend programs that provide special immigrant visas for people in Iraq and Afghanistan who serve as translators and guides, ...
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May 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Infidel
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — A bomb blast killed five U.S. service members in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, U.S. and NATO officials said. It was a roadside explosion in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province that killed them, said Javid Faisal, spokesman for the provincial governor. ...
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May 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is demanding an explanation for the CIA's decade-long effort to funnel cash to Afghan leaders, including President Hamid Karzai. The reported millions in so-called "ghost money" — delivered and accepted in secret as part of a deal between the CIA and Kabul — undermined ...
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May 1, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from TOWNHALL Do you remember what happened last year on 9/14? Where are the White House phone calls for the families who continue to grieve? What is being done to prevent another fatal attack like the one on 9/14? And why is the full truth being withheld from the American public? Benghazi isn't the only bloody ...
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Apr 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NYT KABUL, Afghanistan — For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency. All told, tens of millions of dollars have flowed ...
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Apr 28, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from REUTERS - The Pentagon identified four U.S. victims in Saturday's crash of a surveillance aircraft in southern Afghanistan and said the incident appeared unrelated to Taliban violence. The police chief in Zabul province, Rogh Lewanai, told Reuters on Saturday that bad weather caused the plane to crash, in the district of Shahjoi. At the time, ...
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Apr 27, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from The Los Angeles Times: At a pivotal moment when U.S. forces are winding down combat operations in Afghanistan and handing over the lead security role to the Afghan government, Taliban insurgents announced Saturday the launch of their annual spring offensive. In an elaborately worded statement, the Taliban proclaimed that a "monumental spring operation" ...
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Apr 26, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JPOST European intelligence agencies are worried that European Muslims fighting in Syria will return to carry out terrorist attacks because of their contacts built with al-Qaida, the BBC reported on Wednesday. The UK, Ireland and France are the Western countries believed to have the most fighters in Syria, according to the report, which quotes EU ...
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Apr 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP KABUL, Afghanistan – A Turkish transport helicopter with at least 11 civilians was forced to make an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled area in eastern Afghanistan, and the insurgents took all the people on board hostage, including eight Turks and a Russian, officials said Monday. The civilian aircraft landed in strong winds and ...
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Apr 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WEEKLY STANDARD White House spokesman Jay Carney was asked at today's press briefing, in the context of the Boston bombings, whether U.S. bombings in Afghanistan last month that killed civilians were "terrorism." Carney gave a long answer, but never says "no." "I send my deepest condolence to the victims and familes in Boston," said a ...
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Apr 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from WND: Russia intends to return to Afghanistan, sort of, after the pullout in December 2014 of the troops of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. But that could result in a form of “mission creep” that could get the Kremlin bogged down there once again, according to report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Sources say ...
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Apr 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WEEKLY STANDARD State Department employee Anne Smedinghoff was killed in Afghanistan last weekend. At first reports suggested the young diplomat was part of an armed convoy that was bombed, but new reports say that she was actually on foot. And that the group she was with got lost on its way to deliver books. ABC ...
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Apr 9, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Afghan Teenager Gul Meena Describes Brutal "Honor" Attack Excerpted from CNN -- It's cold and raining in Kabul and the pothole-filled dirt roads have turned into a sea of mud. We drive up to the gateway of a high-walled compound. A ...
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Apr 6, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FOX NEWS KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Six American troops and civilians and an Afghan doctor were killed in attacks on Saturday in southern and eastern Afghanistan as the U.S. military's top officer began a weekend visit to the country, officials said. In the south, three U.S. service members, two U.S. civilians and the doctor were ...
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Apr 4, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from STRIPES KABUL — A U.S. fighter pilot was killed when his F-16 jet crashed late Wednesday near Bagram Air Field in eastern Afghanistan, military officials said. The plane was on its final approach to land after a routine air support mission around 11 p.m. when it lost contact with its wingman and the control ...
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Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP: BERLIN: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told a German newspaper that Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar could run for president in elections next year. Karzai’s government has agreed the Taliban can open an office in Qatar if the group breaks all ties with al Qaeda and renounces terrorism. Karzai was in Qatar Sunday to ...
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Apr 2, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON: The U.S. government has spent $288 million on ammunition for the troubled Afghan National Police (ANP), according to a detailed quarterly report issued by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). The United States also has spent more than $366 million on weapons for the ANP and intends to spend another $14.2 ...
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