Three years ago, Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi, a Kuwaiti soldier who deserted to fight in Afghanistan alongside the Taliban, sat in a detention cell at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while lawyers argued whether he was an “enemy combatant.” Last week, a Dubai-based television channel reported that al-Ajmi was killed carrying out a
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The Afghan Army and police forces should be able to secure most of Afghanistan by 2011, allowing international forces to start withdrawing, according to the U.S. commander of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan, General Dan McNeill.”By about 2011, there is going to be some pretty good capacity in the Afghan National Army,” he said in
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Frank Schaeffer writes this in the HuffPo: ……What I didn’t know when I started to write on the subject of the military was that I would find that some people in the military perceive themselves as having been forgotten, underrated or disparaged by the larger society, even while at the same time there is a
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Aw, what a shame: The Taleban have accused French President Nicolas Sarkozy of reneging on an election promise with his pledge to send more troops to Afghanistan. The Afghan militant movement said they had freed two French aid workers last year because Mr Sarkozy had pledged to pull French forces out of Afghanistan. He had
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Al Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawarhi’s responses to Internet questions submitted by the public will be released soon, probably within the next three days, a terrorism monitoring service said on Wednesday.The questions were solicited in December offer al Qaeda-linked Web sites that carried an interview with Osama bin Laden’s second-in-command. They covered topics including al Qaeda’s
“professorfate“, the DailyKos diarist who wrote this screed, has since removed it. Charles Johnson at Little Green Footballs, posted a couple of the paragraphs to give a good idea of how infected these Kos idiots are with anti-American mental illness. As a nation the United States no longer has the remotest idea about what it
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