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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:15 AM

Insurgents

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Name: Insurgents

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 2 Documents

NATO

Afghan, NATO Forces Detain Insurgents

A combined Afghan-International Security Assistance Force operation detained an insurgent in Kandahar province yesterday while in pursuit of a Taliban district leader and senior commander of a sizable militant element in the area.The force targeted a ... [Defense Link - 11/03/2009]

Entities: Combined Force, Insurgents, Detained, Taliban, NATO

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 4 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

United Nations

Afghanistan: election run-off cancelled

Afghanistan's election commission has said that Saturday's run-off is cancelled. Published: 11:25AM GMT 02 Nov 2009Abdullah Abdullah has previously appealed for his supporters to remain calm, patient and responsible. Photo: AFP/ The chief electoral officer ... [Telegraph - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, United Nations, Abdullah Abdullah, DETERRENCE

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/03/2009 - 2 Documents (in Intellectual Property Rights)

Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys

Pirates may now seem like friends

Kidnappers may now seem like friends to British yacht hostagesTristan McConnell: AnalysisAs if being hijacked weren’t bad enough, anyone finding themselves the guests of Somali pirates now has to deal with interest from an even more dangerous quarter ... [Times Online - 11/03/2009]

Entities: Mogadishu, Jihad, Hostage, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Major sacked after soldier's death

THE officer in charge of an Australian special forces unit in Afghanistan has been removed from his command after a high-level investigation into the death of a young lieutenant revealed problems in the elite unit's training and leadership.Lieutenant ... [The Age - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Marshal, Michael Fussell, Houston (Texas, United States)

First Reported 17 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 2 Documents

Afghanistan: US helicopter assault.

Battle for Hearts and Minds Trailer from Danfung Dennis on Vimeo.Independent filmmaker, Danfung Dennis was embedded with the US marines when on July 2nd, 2009 the US launched a major helicopter assault into an insurgent stronghold in the Helmand River ... [Times Live South Africa - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Afghanistan, Assault, Earth Day

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 2 Documents

Hakimullah Mehsud

Blast kills 35 in Pakistan's Rawalpindi

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected Taliban suicide bomb killed at least 35 people in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi on Monday, officials said, as the government announced a reward for the capture, dead or alive, of the group's leader.Pakistan ... [Reuters UK - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, Insurgents

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Norwegian peace mediator in Philippines to jumpstart talks with leftist rebels

MANILA, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- A Norwegian government mediator is in the Philippines to seek the possible resumption of talks between the Philippine government and leftist Communist rebels, a senior official said Monday.Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process ... [Xinhua News Agency - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Philippines, New People's Army, Communist Party of the Philippines

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 1 Documents

36 dead in Somalia violence

Mogadishu, Somalia - At least 36 people have been killed and scores wounded in three days of fighting in towns across chaotic Somalia, a local human rights group said Sunday.Government troops fought rebels in a central town, the two main insurgent forces ... [Los Angeles Times - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Somalia, Mogadishu, Insurgents, BreakAway, Improvised Explosive Device

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 1 Documents (in Internet & IT)

Government bars pre-paid services in Jammu & Kashmir

According to India’s Economic Times, pre-paid mobile services are to be blocked in the Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) circle from 1 November. The moves comes on the back of government concerns that such services have been used for criminal and terrorist activities, ... [TeleGeography - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Insurgents, Telecommunication, Criminal, Corroboration

First Reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Afghanistan: Barack Obama warns Hamid karzai to tackle corruption

"I emphasised that this has to be a point in time in which we begin to write a new chapter," Mr Obama said in describing his congratulatory phone call to Mr Karzai.Mr Obama told Mr Karzai that "the proof is not going to be in words. It's going to be in ... [Telegraph - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Corruption, Afghanistan, Barack Obama

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 1 Documents

Leadership-Centric Counterinsurgency

Over at Kings of War, of Mark Moyar's book on leadership in counterinsurgency, 'A Question of Command.' According to Broadwell's reading (I haven't read the book itself), Moyar presents an alternative to the dominant population-centric approach to COIN, ... [World Politics Review - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Counter-Insurgency, Mark Moyar, Insurgents

First Reported 11/02/2009 - Updated 11/02/2009 - 1 Documents

Karzai declared winner in Afghan presidential poll

The Afghan Independent Election Commission Monday declared incumbent Hamid Karzai the winner of the presidential election after his challenger pulled out of the coming weekend's runoff. The commission cancelled Saturday's second round of voting and declared ... [Sify - 11/02/2009]

Entities: Hamid Karzai, Abdullah Abdullah, Insurgents, Legitimacy, Kabul

Quotes

...All of us will be included as part of Afghanistan's government." He also urged insurgent fighters to re-enter civic society, saying: "We call on our Taliban brothers to come home and embrace their land."

Karzai rules out sacking corrupt Afghan ministers [The Independent - 1 hour ago]

...the branches of the armed forces in Chile, but this would probably take another 28 or 30 years given the current pace of progress in the military. "A rather large number of women have been admitted into the regular military institutions, but from a gender perspective, there is still a long way to go before this inclusion is genuine and not simply ornamental" she maintained...

CHILE: Women in Arms [Inter Press Service - 16 hours ago]

"Full of boundless energy and humour, loved and respected by all, he was both our greatest source of morale back in the FOB and our most precious military asset in the deadly cat and mouse game we play daily with the insurgent bombers."

Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid killed in Afghanistan [Ministry of Defence - 21 hours ago]

...McChrystal, the top military commander in Afghanistan, says the rise is partially explained by U S commitments to Iraq, the Air Force Times reports. "We were in the middle of that period of time when we were losing in Iraq, and I just think people weren't paying attention enough, and certainly not listening to the leadership out here at that time" he said. Flynn said the insurgent community comes mostly from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, German and Chechnya

Afghan violence fueled by foreigners [UPI - 11/02/2009]

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No Kashmir deal will work if US ‘helps’ [Deccan Chronicle - 12 hours ago]
British medics in Afghanistan see more traumas ... [Telegraph - 14 hours ago]
Thomas Henriksen: As goes Afghanistan ... [National Post - 14 hours ago]
A False Awakening [The National Interest - 15 hours ago]
CHILE: Women in Arms [Inter Press Service - 16 hours ago]
The National Review: For The GOP, Hoffman Shines [NPR - 16 hours ago]
Schieffer: Hard Right Driving the GOP Train [CBS News - 16 hours ago]
Afghanistan: US helicopter assault. [Times Live South Africa - 16 hours ago]
National Post editorial board: A tough job ahea... [National Post - 16 hours ago]
Norwegian mediator here to press GRP-NDF peace ... [Philippines Daily Tribune - 16 hours ago]
In Afghanistan, one last shot [Globe and Mail - 18 hours ago]
Hamid Karzai: tough job ahead [National Post - 20 hours ago]
Drugs, guns and war in Myanmar [Asia Times Online - 20 hours ago]
Somalia: Hardline Islamist group bans food aid ... [Individual.com - 20 hours ago]
Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid killed in Afghanistan [Ministry of Defence - 21 hours ago]

Blogs

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CBS Hosts Discuss ‘Insurgent,’ ‘Orthodox Conser... [NewsBusters.org blogs - 12 hours ago] While analyzing the off-year elections across the country on Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith asked Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer about the New ...
Afghanistan: US helicopter assault. [Times LIVE Blogs - Posts - 17 hours ago] Battle for Hearts and Minds Trailer from Danfung Dennis on Vimeo. Independent filmmaker, Danfung Dennis was embedded with the US marines when on July 2nd, 2009 ...
COIN v. CONV - A Significant Difference [Crooks and Liars - 11/02/2009] I don't usually comment on a blog post that comments on another blog post, but I believe Matt Yglesias hits on an important issue in his observations on Andrew ...
Is There a Local-National Enthusiasm Gap in NY-23? [TAPPED - 11/02/2009] The race in New York’s 23rd Congressional District has turned into nothing less than a passion play for many of the election’s liberal observers: Moderate Republican ...
Doug Hoffman Praises Glenn Beck As His ‘Mentor’ [Think Progress - 11/02/2009] Conservative blogger Charles Johnson of the site Little Green Footballs reported yesterday that Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate in the NY-23 special ...

Audio/Video

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Insurgents in Afghanistan may be using munition... [Slate Magazine - 05/20/2009]

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