The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
As Afghanistan's president is inaugurated for his second term, author Christina Lamb, his former neighbor, on his transformation from an affable bon vivant to a paranoid shut-in. When Hamid Karzai is re-inaugurated as president today after one of the...
The Daily (Maybe) (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
I've only just seen this but The Sunday Times had an in depth story by the exceptionally fine journalist Christina Lamb on Afghanistan. It includes revelations about the recent shooting of five British soldiers that made my blood run cold; The 25-year-old, an unmarried man called Gulbuddin, was part of a 15-strong team that manned a police station in the Nad Ali district, in the heart...
Robert Greenwald (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
... killed five British soldiers . Guldubbin was claimed by the Taliban as one of their own, but as Christina Lamb explained in her Times UK piece [h/t Patrick Cockburn]: Senior sources say local intelligence shows the [Taliban] claim is false, however. In addition, witnesses contacted by The Sunday Times say other factors lay behind the massacre. According to two Afghans who knew him,...
Ana the Imp (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... carnival to continue, to see more and more bodies return in a chain without end? Those who read Christina Lamb’s article in The Spectator the week before will have noted that the various European powers-whose contributions have been largely worthless, anyway-are looking for an early exit. The Canadians intend to go by 2011. In the end perhaps only Britain and the United States...
Psyche, Science, and Society (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
... soldiers when he opened fire with a machine gun on them. But the reason he did so, according to Christina Lamb in The Sunday Times, citing two Afghans who knew Gulbuddin, was that he had been brutally beaten, sodomised and sexually molested by a senior Afghan officer whom he regarded as being protected by the British. The slaughter at Nad Ali is a microcosm of what is happening across...
Newshoggers (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
By Steve Hynd It was inevitable that Remembrance Sunday would mean a lot of British soul-searching over continued military involvement in Afghanistan. That introspection was evident in national newspapers today, including in the London Times, where foreign correspondent Christina Lamb had a long and thoughtful article about the ongoing occupation which weighed the pros and cons of various...
El Campeador's Weblog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Spectator UK…More troops will just mean more targets Since the war on terror began, Christina Lamb has believed that the answer in Afghanistan was to send more soldiers. Now, after eight years of fighting and no end in sight, she has changed her mind. It was Bonfire Night last year in the Officers’ Mess of 2 [...]
Daily Online Alochona (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
... From The Sunday Times June 7, 2009 The Taliban will 'never be defeated' Christina Lamb in Rawalpindi http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6445981.ece# 'Colonel Imam', the Pakistani agent who trained Mullah Omar and the warlords to fight the Soviets, says the US must negotiate with its enemies The Taliban have Nato forces trapped says 'Colonel Imam'. Eventually the...
