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Saturday, November 21, 2009 6:18 AM

Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin

Type: Organization
Name: Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin (Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin)
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents
Hamid Karzai - Click to view image in its original context
Hamid Karzai
My Nights With Hamid
The world is hounding the Afghan president to crack down on corruption and kick out entrenched warlords. I don't think he's going to do it, and I should know: I’m the man who wrote his autobiography.In my first one-on-one meeting in Kabul with Hamid Karzai ... [Foreign Policy Magazine - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 10/23/2009 - Updated 10/23/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
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US Army
Hezb claims killings of two US troops
KABUL: Hezb-e-Islami Friday claimed the killings of two US troops by attacking on the US army headquarter in Afghan province of Kunar.According to hezb-e-Islami spokesman, their militants used heavy and light weaponry including rocket launchers in their ... [The News International - 10/23/2009]
First Reported 10/13/2009 - Updated 10/14/2009 - 6 Documents
Reconciliation Efforts in Afghanistan Flounder: A Key to U.S. Strategy Falters As the Taliban Gains Strength
KABUL -- As Washington policymakers debate the U.S. role in Afghanistan, most agree that one element will be important to whatever strategy emerges: the need for reconciliation with insurgents who can be bought off or persuaded to lay down their weap ... [Washington Post - 10/14/2009]
First Reported 10/15/2009 - Updated 10/15/2009 - 9 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
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NATO
Italian chicanery doomed 10 French soldiers
LONDON: Ten French soldiers killed in Afghanistan failed to realise the risks in the area because Italian officials had secretly paid the Taliban to desist from violence, a British newspaper has reported.The Times in London said the Italian secret service ... [Sydney Morning Herald - 10/15/2009]
Entities: Insurgents, Taliban, NATO
First Reported 07/28/2009 - Updated 07/28/2009 - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
American charged with running 'jihadi training camp'
A white American dry-walling contractor and his two sons ran a military-style training camp in North Carolina while plotting 'violent jihad', prosecutors said. Daniel Boyd, 39, is alleged to have roots in Muslim extremism stretching back decades Photo: ... [Telegraph - 07/28/2009]
First Reported 07/31/2009 - Updated 07/31/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Fear, violence in Afghan countryside ahead of vote
GADAKHEL, Afghanistan (AFP) Walking to a polling station in rural Afghanistan can be risky -- even for 250 troops armed with a guided missile, whose recent visit was disrupted by rocket attacks and gunfire.At around 7:00 am, several hours after dawn, ... [AFP via Yahoo! - 07/31/2009]
First Reported 08/20/2009 - Updated 08/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
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US Presidential Election 2008
Afghanistan’s gunpoint election
By any measure, todays presidential election in Afghanistan is a travesty. The poll takes place under conditions of a continuing foreign military occupation to prop up a puppet government that is notorious for its human rights abuses, corruption and failure ... [World Socialist Web Site - 08/20/2009]
First Reported 09/27/2009 - Updated 09/27/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Afghan bread basket flung into violence
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (AFP) Ethnic tensions, land disputes and a new US supply line have plunged Afghanistan's bread basket and northern province Kunduz into violence, putting German troops on the frontline.The Taliban insurgency plaguing the destitute ... [AFP via Yahoo! - 09/27/2009]
First Reported 10/05/2009 - Updated 10/05/2009 - 1 Documents
After Deadly Assault, Questions Linger Over Afghanistan Strategy
Over the weekend, eight U.S. troops and two Afghan soldiers were killed in an assault on a pair of outposts near Kamdesh, in the Nuristan province of eastern Afghanistan. According to a news release from the International Security Assistance Force, Nuristani ... [Wired: Danger Room - 10/05/2009]
First Reported 10/07/2009 - Updated 10/07/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Afghan Warlord: 'West Can Only Leave'
Alex Crawford, Asia correspondentAn Afghan warlord has told Sky News that Western forces 'have no other option except withdrawal' from his country. Gulbadin Hekmatyar gave the warning as he offered to mediate with occupying militaries to end the fighting ... [Sky News - 10/07/2009]
First Reported 10/09/2009 - Updated 10/09/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Taleban claim victory after deadly attack
Taleban claim victory in Kamdesh after attack on US Camp KeatingMartin Fletcher in KabulThe Taleban claimed to be flying its flag over the town of Kamdesh in eastern Afghanistan yesterday after the US military withdrew from an outpost that was all but ... [Times Online - 10/09/2009]
First Reported 10/13/2009 - Updated 10/13/2009 - 1 Documents
How to Turn the Current Political Crisis in Afghanistan into an Opportunity?
e-ArianaThe situation in Afghanistan has been deteriorating very fast. Popular support for the conflict taking place is fading away in the Western countries and particularly in the US. In addition, the current dispute over the election results is an additional ... [e-Ariana - 10/13/2009]

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...'We are in uncharted territory,' Brown said at the time. "We are actively talking to people who were being targeted a few years ago by coalition forces." The Hezb-e-Islami commander, Mullah Sadiq, refused to meet with American soldiers and may have participated in the deadly Oct...
Reconciliation Efforts in Afghanistan Flounder: A Key to U.S. Strategy Falters As the Taliban Gai ... [Washington Post - 10/14/2009]

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My Nights With Hamid [Foreign Policy Magazine - 11/20/2009]
WHITE PAPER FOR THE PERMANENT PEACE IN AFGHANISTAN [Sabawoon.com - 11/08/2009]
Iranians, Pakistanis play role in growth of Tal... [e-Ariana - 11/07/2009]
Afghanistan insurgency has grown 10-fold [Air Force Times - 11/05/2009]
Insurgency in Afghanistan has grown 10-fold [Air Force Times - 11/02/2009]
Profiles of Afghan Power Brokers [American Progress - 10/28/2009]
How to Get Out of Afghanistan [Middle East Online - 10/27/2009]
Hezb claims killings of two US troops [The News International - 10/23/2009]
Herat mourns a rebel commander [Asia Times Online - 10/21/2009]
U.S. sets its sights on Taliban's 'little T' [Washington Post - 10/19/2009]
Bribing the Taliban: the Italians have form [First Post - 10/18/2009]
Taliban Strength Nears Military Proportion [Military.com - 10/15/2009]
Britain to boost Afghan mission [The Australian - 10/15/2009]
Italian chicanery doomed 10 French soldiers [Sydney Morning Herald - 10/15/2009]
Taliban 'was bribed' [News24.com - 10/15/2009]
Obama's deserving peace prize [Aljazeera.com - 10/15/2009]
Did a US 'hit' create an Afghan hero? [GlobalPost - 10/15/2009]
AFGHANISTAN : French troops died after Italy st... [France24 - 10/15/2009]
Italy denies Taliban bribe report [AFP via Yahoo! - 10/15/2009]
Italians bribed Taliban [iafrica.com - 10/15/2009]
'Taliban bribe leads to soldiers deaths' [Sydney Morning Herald - 10/15/2009]
Italy hid Taliban bribes from France [The Australian - 10/15/2009]
French killed after Italy bribed Taliban: report [AFP via Yahoo! - 10/15/2009]
French died after Italy 'bribed Taliban' [Brisbane Courier-Mail - 10/15/2009]
A key to U.S. strategy falters as Taliban gains... [South Asian News Agency - 10/15/2009]
Reconciliation Efforts in Afghanistan Flounder:... [Washington Post - 10/14/2009]
Reconciliation Efforts in Afghanistan Flounder [Washington Post - 10/14/2009]
Splintered Afghan insurgencies weigh U.S. resol... [San Jose Mercury News - 10/14/2009]
Reconciliation Efforts Falter in Afghanistan [Washington Post - 10/14/2009]
Taliban without al Qaeda?Don't bet on it [Foreign Policy Magazine - 10/14/2009]
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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hamid Karzai, Michael Scheuer, [more]
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Riedel, The National Security Group Inc, Speedo, [more]
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Taliban, NATO, Al Qaeda, [more]
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insurrectionist, Military/Armed Forces, Bribery, [more]
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Kabul, Washington DC, Raleigh (North Carolina, United States), [more]
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Afghanistan, United States, Pakistan, [more]
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Military Action, Special Forces, Corruption, [more]
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Taliban govern in the open in Nuristan [The Long War Journal - 11/12/2009]
Dost Mohammed, the Taliban's shadow governor for Nuristan province, is interviewed on Al Jazeera. One month after US forces abandoned ...
Joseph A. Palermo: The "Goldilocks Princip... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/09/2009]
A piece in yesterday's New York Times by Peter Baker and Helene Cooper reported that all of the U.S. military options for Afghanistan that President Barack ...
US moves on domestic jihadis [The Long War Journal - 11/01/2009]
Luqman Ameen Abdullah. Photo from the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Fox News. In recent months, the US has experienced ...
Haqqani Network, al Qaeda, behind attack on UN ... [The Long War Journal - 11/01/2009]
Al Qaeda and the Haqqani Network coordinated last week's deadly assault on a UN guest house in the Afghan capital of Kabul. The attack, which killed five foreign ...
The shifting alliances of Pakistan and Afghanis... [Pakistan: Now or Never? - 10/22/2009]
The Jihadica website has just posted an item about an apparent rift between al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban in the so-called Quetta shura led by Mullah Omar. “Mullah ...
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