Karzai opens can of worms with admission of CIA cash
Remember the stacks of hundred-dollar bills wrapped in plastic loaded onto pallets headed for
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Policy on drone strike authorization doesn’t need to change, Defense official says
A senior Defense Department official said Thursday that the Pentagon sees no need to change the broad congressional authorization under which the ...
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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche (Knopf) After taking on her county’s brutal civil war in the novel “Half of a Yellow Sun,” Nigerian author ...
Pentagon officials: Drone War on Terror is endless
(Credit: AP) During a Congressional hearing Thursday on drone strikes carried out by the military, senior defense official Michael Sheehan admitted ...
Afghan Parliament Halts Debate On Women's Rights Bill
After protests from some MPs and after only about 15 minutes, the Afghan parliament halted debate Saturday on a bill aimed at curbing violence ...
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Afghanistan post-2014 Afghanistan stands at a crossroads. The reputation of our political leadership is under suspicion. Tens of millions of dollars ...
The Boston Bombings and the CIA Connection. Graham Fuller and Uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev
One of the many unexplained (at least not officially) anomalies of the persons claimed to have carried out the Boston Marathon bombings is the ...
Commander Denies U.S. to Blame in Afghan Deaths
Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. said neither the United States nor NATO was at fault in the deaths of civilians after airstrikes in ...
What Torture Charges? Special Ops Chief Says Afghan Relations Are ‘Great’
From torture allegations to dead U.S. soldiers, it's been a brutal few days in Afghanistan. But to the admiral in charge of America's special ...
7 American service members killed in attacks in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — Seven U.S. soldiers and a member of the NATO-led coalition were killed on Saturday in one of the deadliest days for Americans ...
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MI6 'handing bundles of cash to Hamid Karzai'
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Heroin, cash & plastic bags: America’s mess in Afghanistan
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