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Suicide bomber kills one in Pakistan navy HQ attackIslamabad (AFP) Dec 2, 2009 A suicide bomber attacked Pakistan's navy headquarters in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday, killing a naval policeman and injuring 11 others in the latest blast in the insurgency-hit nation. A young man walked up to a checkpoint at the entrance to the complex and detonated his explosives when challenged by security forces. The blast scattered body parts across the busy city centre road ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 1, 2009Americans saw a new side of Barack Obama on Tuesday, with the president's hopeful eloquence stifled by a somber pragmatism, on a ugly war offering neither easy options nor a quick exit from Afghanistan. After an exhaustive rethink, Obama came up with a new plan -- a swift troop surge -- 30,000 strong -- and attempted to define an end game for a weary nation with the first timeline ... more 
Kabul (AFP) Dec 2, 2009President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday welcomed a US decision to send 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan and set a timeline to bring forces home, as the Taliban militia vowed to escalate their eight-year war. Kabul has long called for the deployment of more than the 113,000 NATO and US troops currently trying to crush an insurgency that is at its deadliest and most widespread since US-led troop ... more 
Washington (AFP) Dec 2, 2009Defeating Al-Qaeda requires turning the tide against insurgents in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday, arguing for a surge of US forces to take on the Taliban. "Rolling back the Taliban is now necessary, even if not sufficient, to the ultimate defeat of Al-Qaeda," Gates told a Senate hearing a day after President Barack Obama unveiled plans to send 30,000 ... more |
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United Nations (AFP) Dec 2, 2009The United States is not seeking a civilian coordinator for Afghanistan, the US ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday, apparently contradicting the State Department. "This is not an American proposal," Ambassador Susan Rice told reporters at the United Nations about the alleged plans to appoint an official tasked with helping Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government improve the ... more 
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 2, 2009President Barack Obama's new Afghan war plan will heap pressure on Pakistan to dismantle Taliban and Al-Qaeda sanctuaries, but the embattled government fears the surge could spark further instability. Announcing his strategy for turning around the eight-year war in Afghanistan, Obama pledged to send 30,000 more troops to the battlefield, but set a timetable for a gradual US withdrawal ... more
Washington (AFP) Dec 1, 2009President Barack Obama on Tuesday faced a delicate balancing act as he announced a troop buildup in Afghanistan, seeking to reassure Americans he has an exit plan while convincing allies and an implacable enemy that Washington remained committed to the fight. In unveiling plans to send reinforcements, Obama vowed that the US military would begin pulling out of Afghanistan by July 2011 ... more |
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