Tag: taliban
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August 22, 2008 09:49 AM EDT --
My husabnd, ex-military, gets all sorts of email from friends in the military. He is a frequent visitor to Military.com. He is always sending me stuff about what's happening in the Armed Forces. . . .
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June 23, 2009 12:04 PM EDT --
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – A gunman working as a guard killed a rival of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud on Tuesday, security officials said, dealing a blow to a government plan . . .
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February 27, 2007 12:09 PM EST --
Vice President Cheney is okay after a terrorist bomb exploded at the entrance to Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan on Tuesday, during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney.
The Taliban claimed responsibility . . .
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January 16, 2008 04:59 PM EST --
<a href=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22686544>Ex-Congressman has been aiding Islamic Terrorists</a>
This article I read is incredible. His name is Mark Deli Siljander, a Republican . . .
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May 19, 2009 08:49 AM EDT --
I saw this a week ago in the Times:
Soldier in pink boxers fought Taliban
FORT WORTH, Texas (UPI) -- A U.S. soldier serving in Afghanistan has become a media sensation after he was photographed . . .
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August 07, 2007 12:35 PM EDT --
If you haven't seen this webpage, it bears a look. We talk about Islamic fascists, well, some do, but the truth is, Christianity has it's own Taliban looking after some of the most savage views . . .
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February 29, 2008 09:36 PM EST --
Harry, Royal Prince of the United Kingdom, had his cover blown after the major news media had struggled to keep mum about him for over two months. Apparently Prince Harry thought that he should . . .
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July 21, 2008 10:03 PM EDT --
Obama finally took John McCain's advice and hopped a plane to Iraq and Afghanistan. But did it make the Republicans happy that he did? Nope.
A couple of McCain surrogates popped off on cue. Joe . . .
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November 14, 2009 03:48 PM EST --
Our Corrupt Occupation of Afghanistan
By Robert Naiman
Is it just me, or is the pontification of Western leaders about corruption in Afghanistan growing rather tiresome?
There is something . . .
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July 30, 2009 05:44 AM EDT --
author: Latifa (a pseudonym)
For those readers of Kite Runner and Bookseller from Kabul, this is the tale from the point of view of a 16 year old young woman also from Kabul.
She describes the . . .
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October 11, 2009 02:54 PM EDT --
When Obama won the Nobel Prize, Rush Limbaugh pointed out that the Republicans "agree with the Taliban [...] that he doesn't deserve the award." And Limbaugh's words led me to realize that the Republican . . .
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June 20, 2008 09:32 AM EDT --
Dick Cheney: "I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian." ( Guardian , 1998)
John J. Maresca, vice president . . .
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August 23, 2009 04:44 PM EDT --
Less than two months since American forces in Iraq were largely removed from harms’ way, Army General Ray Odierno is now proposing to deploy troops in a northern territory that has been . . .
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July 17, 2006 12:54 PM EDT --
American Forces Press Service reports Taliban extremists attacked Afghan and coalition security forces with machine-gun fire from inside a hospital, which the terrorists were using for cover:
Despite . . .
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October 05, 2008 11:17 AM EDT --
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081005/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan;_ylt=AkyGMJyZI9CJfyQfxWYYbjF34T0D
According to an AP poll, we bombed the Taliban, and now, much to my grief, the Taliban is made . . .
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April 08, 2009 09:46 AM EDT --
I posted a dispatch from Michael Yon located here regarding this same story.
Probably for fear of reprisals from Sharia adherents if she complains. An update on this story: "Pakistani Teen Purportedly . . .
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April 24, 2009 07:43 PM EDT --
Pakistan : A State Unraveling?
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari approved a peace pact with Taliban forces in the Swat Valley in the hope of calming Swat, where . . .
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October 17, 2009 10:06 PM EDT --
A gathering of representatives from all political parties in the coalition government of Pakistan, as well as those within the opposition, have given Pakistan’s army chief General Ashfaq Kayani official . . .
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January 19, 2007 10:26 AM EST --
According to this article and a book written by Jesselyn Radack "The Canary in the Coalmine: Blowing the Whistle in the Case of the American Taliban," torture of detainees first . . .
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February 23, 2008 11:08 PM EST --
To be fair, the oringinal article is titled " Hillier tells MPs to Shape Up. "
General Rick Hillier is one of the most capable Generals Canada has had since Arthur Currie.
Despite the . . .
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