'Plan to attack US embassy in Dhaka hatched in Pakistan'
Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
A plan to attack the US embassy here was hatched in Pakistan by the terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Bangladeshi investigators have said.
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Alleged US embassy attack planned in Pakistan
The New Nation (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Mamunur Rashid The planned attack on the US Embassy in Dhaka was plotted in Pakistan by the militant organization Lashkar-e-Taiyeba (LeT), the investigators alleged. During interrogation detained madrasa teacher Mufti Harun reportedly told the investigators that one LeT leader discussed the plan over telephone from Pakistan and instructed in Arabic the mechanism to execute the plan. Accordingly, three...
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Three LeT men who planned to attack US mission held in Bangladesh
India eNews (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Three Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorists, who had surveyed the area around the US mission in the Bangladesh capital and were allegedly planning to attack it, have been arrested. They had links with the US and Pakistan, media reports said Friday.
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FREE PRESS EDITORIAL: More troops? Only if U.S. wants more Afghan chaos
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
For most Americans, this country's deepening military entanglement in Afghanistan has occasioned more confusion than inconvenience.Most remember that the initial U.S. objective was to defeat the Taliban and capture Osama bin Laden. But today, eight years after the first U.S. soldiers were dispatched there, few can explain why the number of troops deployed in Afghanistan has tripled in...
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Karzai reform, coherent U.S. policy seem unlikely
News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The U.S. mission in Afghanistan — whatever it is; stay tuned — depends on substantially increased competence and radically reduced corruption among those governing in, though perhaps not much beyond, Kabul. On Jan. 29, 2002, just 114 days after the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush, during his State of the Union address, introduced to a joint...
- Inanity rules our policy in Afghanistan - Charlotte Observer: Viewpoint
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U.S. Presses Myanmar for Fair Vote
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
U.S. diplomats returned from a rare trip to Myanmar facing a new challenge: How to nurture a budding dialogue with the country's secretive military regime without boosting its legitimacy in the eyes of the outside world.
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London's US embassy sold to Quatar investment company
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
London - The sprawling and heavily fortified complex of the US embassy in central London is to be sold to a Qatar-based company, the US mission said in a statement Tuesday. The US embassy, in Grosvenor Square, the target of furious anti- war demonstr...
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Battling corruption is vital to U.S. mission in Afghanistan
Worldfocus (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Karin von Hippel, a senior fellow for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., joins Daljit Dhaliwal to discuss Hamid Karzai's re-election. She says that rooting out corruption is vital to maintaining support for the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan. [COVE pid="vNjE2mP_OM_WbbBjcfzxPEjOHi8JStI1" allowembed="on"]
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Battling corruption: vital to U.S. mission in Afghanistan
Worldfocus (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Karin von Hippel, a senior fellow for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., joins Daljit Dhaliwal to discuss Hamid Karzai's reelection. She says that rooting out corruption is vital to maintaining support for the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan. [COVE pid="vNjE2mP_OM_WbbBjcfzxPEjOHi8JStI1" allowembed="on"]
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London's US embassy sold to Quatar investment company
Monsters and Critics (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
London - The sprawling and heavily fortified complex of the US embassy in central London is to be sold
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Commission: ‘We still don’t know’ how many contractors US employs in Iraq, Afghanistan
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The US government has no precise figure for how many contractors are employed in Iraq and Afghanistan, inviting the risk of fraud and security threats, a US commission warned on Monday. "It is both peculiar and troubling that eight years after the overthrow of the Taliban regime, in Afghanistan, and more than six years since the [...]
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Is the Stryker Obsolete Already?
An American Lion (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Or is it more accurate to say that it is the wrong vehicle for Afghanistan? On July 5, the U.S. Army’s 5th Stryker Brigade arrived in Kandahar province for a year-long tour of duty. The brigade was equipped with 350 Stryker combat vehicles , an eight-wheeled armored infantry carrier that has proven successful in Iraq and is popular with soldiers. It was the first time the Army had...
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Overseas Turf War Between the CIA and DNI Continues
Time (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Who gets to name the chief U.S. intelligence officer in U.S. missions abroad? The dispute is still roiling
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An Overseas Turf War Between the CIA and DNI Won't Die
TIME (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Who gets to name the chief U.S. intelligence officer in U.S. missions abroad? The dispute is still roiling
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Is Iran Supporting the Insurgency in Afghanistan?
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... understood, is Iran. Iran’s interests and reach into Afghan society are well known. Official U.S. and regional sources, however, often paint a confusing picture of the nature of Iran’s activities in Afghanistan. Iran is frequently described as a force for stability in Afghanistan, with interests that largely converge with those of the U.S. mission there, namely...