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Kim Howells

Type: Person

Name: Kim Howells

Title: Labour MP for Pontypridd, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Organization: House of Commons

Date of Birth: 27/11/1946

Nationality: United Kingdom

Fact Sheet: Biography for Kim Howells

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

David Miliband

Taleban 'must be offered a route to peace'

Britain is not fighting a war 'without end in Afghanistan but Nato cannot risk leaving a vacuum for the Taleban, David Miliband said yesterday.Speaking after the Prime Minister had held out the prospect that the handover of some districts to local control ... [Times Online - 11/18/2009]

Entities: Taliban, Afghanistan, NATO, David Miliband, Counter-Terrorism

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 2 Documents

Afghanistan is not a fight to the death, says David Miliband

Britain is not fighting a war "without end in Afghanistan but Nato cannot risk leaving a vacuum for the Taleban, David Miliband said today.Speaking after the Prime Minister had held out the prospect that the handover of some districts to local control ... [Times Online - 11/17/2009]

Entities: David Miliband, Afghanistan, Taliban, NATO, Counter-Terrorism

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 2 Documents

Gordon Brown

Brown plans Afghan handover talks

Gordon Brown plans to host talks in the new year to discuss timing for handing over the campaign in Afghanistan to the Afghan government.The prime minister said he wanted the Nato meeting to "set a timetable" for transfer starting in 2010.He called for ... [BBC - 11/16/2009]

Entities: United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Handover, Gordon Brown, Al Qaeda

First Reported 11/15/2009 - Updated 11/15/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

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MI5

Government has failed to hand over interrogation guidelines, say MPs

The group of senior MPs and peers responsible for scrutinising the activities of the intelligence agencies has sharply criticised the government for failing to hand over the guidelines provided to MI5 and MI6 officers for interrogating terror suspect ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/15/2009]

Entities: Interrogation, MI5, MI6, Gordon Brown, Binyam Mohamed

First Reported 11/03/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 42 Documents

Time to pull troops out of Afghanistan?

As I sat in an armed American convoy, speeding through the streets of Kabul earlier this year, we passed an Afghan police checkpoint.ÂThe U.S. commander in the front of the vehicle turned to me and said: â€œI hold on pretty tightly to my firearm whether ... [CNN - 11/04/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, Kim Howells, United Kingdom, Taliban

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/07/2009 - 12 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

NATO

It's time to talk to the Taliban

There is much evidence that the Taliban are less a fundamentalist religious group dedicated to sponsoring al-Qaida in international jihad and more an amalgam of groups seeking to fight foreign occupation and reassert the traditional dominance of the Pashtun ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/07/2009]

Entities: Taliban, Afghanistan, Surveillance, NATO, United Kingdom

First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 11 Documents

Usama bin Laden

Afghan opportunity 'squandered'

Pulling British troops out of Afghanistan and concentrating efforts on boosting domestic security would make Britain safer, according to former Foreign Office minister Kim Howells.Writing in The Guardian, Howells said that 'seven years of military involvement ... [Defence Management - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Kim Howells, Afghanistan, Usama bin Laden, HOSTILE, Surveillance

First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 15 Documents

Afghan betrayal brings doubt over campaign

Bloody betrayal raises fresh doubts about Britain's campaign in AfghanistanPhilip Webster, Political Editor, and Michael Evans, Defence EditorThe killing of five British soldiers by an Afghan policeman raised fresh doubts yesterday about Britain’s mission ... [Times Online - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Grenadier Guards, Saundersfoot (United Kingdom), Stephen Venner

First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 3 Documents

Kim Howells, Afghan withdrawal and the coming struggle between generals and politicians

By James Kirkup 3 Comments This is how it starts. Kim Howells has brought the previously private political conversation about withdrawing from Afghanistan out into the open, where it will stay, until the general election and beyond.Dr Howells is far from ... [Telegraph - 11/04/2009]

Entities: Kim Howells, General Election, James Kirkup, Military/Armed Forces

First Reported 11/07/2009 - Updated 11/08/2009 - 6 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Leading article: Why we must leave Afghanistan

One by one over the past eight years, the arguments for the continued presence of Nato troops in Afghanistan have fallen away. The last one, which held us back until now from calling for withdrawal, was the need to police the Afghan election in August. ... [The Independent - 11/08/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, jihadist

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 13 Documents

The Tests for Afghanistan

It is a rare Gordon Brown speech that does not set five tests for someone. Yesterday he set five tests for Afghanistan: better security, good governance, inclusive politics, economic development and regional partnerships. The five tests were his response ... [Times Online - 11/06/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Gordon Brown, Loya Jirga

First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 4 Documents

Labour MPs demand vote on Afghanistan war

Frank Field tables early day motion signed by 22 demanding debate on conflictThis may not get anywhere, but it's being pushed by Frank Field, who has the ability to make things happen in the House of Commons, and so it would be unwise to ignore it: Labour ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/11/2009]

Entities: Frank Field, Afghanistan, Gordon Brown, Kim Howells, John Reid

Quotes

Writing in The Guardian, Howells said that "seven years of military involvement and civilian aid in afghanistan have succeeded in subduing al-qaida's activities in that country, but have not destroyed the organisation or its leader, osama bin laden."

Afghan opportunity 'squandered' [Defence Management - 11/05/2009]

He says President Karzai must produce sweeping changes, quickly. "either this regime gets serious about reforming itself and about playing its part in taking on violent jihadists and extremists or else it seems to me we have got to consider pulling our troops out and fighting the threat of terrorism in a different way" said Howells. Britain is the second highest contributor to the NATO force in Afghanistan...

British Leader Vows Afghan Mission Unchanged [GlobalSecurity.org - 11/04/2009]

More Content

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Taleban 'must be offered a route to peace' [Times Online - 11/18/2009]
Miliband: Afghanistan not a fight to the death [Times Online - 11/17/2009]
Afghanistan is not a fight to the death, says D... [Times Online - 11/17/2009]
Brown prepare Afghanistan handover talks [London Wired - 11/17/2009]
UK plans Afghan handover talks [BBC - 11/17/2009]
Brown plans Afghan handover talks [BBC - 11/16/2009]
Brown plans talks on Afghan exit [BBC - 11/16/2009]
Friends in high places [Guardian.co.uk - 11/16/2009]
Government has failed to hand over interrogatio... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/15/2009]
The only X Factor that bothers Peter Hain [Times Online - 11/14/2009]
Hain exposes Cabinet alarm on Afghanistan [Times Online - 11/14/2009]
The only X Factor that bothers Peter Hain is th... [Times Online - 11/13/2009]
Gordon Brown: British troops in Afghanistan can... [Telegraph - 11/13/2009]
Peter Hain questions Afghan war publicly [Times Online - 11/13/2009]
Brown to ask Nato countries to commit 5,000 mor... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/13/2009]
Gordon Brown sounded cheerful this morning – a ... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/13/2009]
Brown: British troops cannot be "occupying... [Telegraph - 11/13/2009]
Brown says British troops in Afghanistan cannot... [Telegraph - 11/13/2009]
UK ex-ministers for vote on war [South Asian News Agency - 11/12/2009]
Labour MPs demand vote on Afghanistan war [Guardian.co.uk - 11/11/2009]
Brown singals exit strategy [South Asian Media - 11/11/2009]
Only one in five Britons support Afghanistan co... [Telegraph - 11/11/2009]
PM says sorry to mother in letter row [Observer - 11/11/2009]
46% think war is increasing threat [Virgin Media - 11/10/2009]
Gordon Brown says sorry to mother in condolence... [Guardian.co.uk - 11/10/2009]
Shortly after the Afghan elections, Mr Cameron ... [Times Online - 11/10/2009]
Afghanistan Mission Impossible [Monday Morning - 11/10/2009]
Letters from our readers [World Socialist Web Site - 11/10/2009]
Afghan progress 'painful', says Stirrup [Defence Management - 11/10/2009]
British Army to Retreat in Afghanistan [Suite101.com - 11/09/2009]

Blogs

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Friends in high places \| Peter Oborne [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/16/2009] Britain's pro-Israel lobby needs to be far more open about how it is funded and what it doesEvery year a very grand lunch is given by the Conservative Friends of ...
Gordon Brown sounded cheerful this morning – a ... [Politics: Politics blog \| guardian.co.uk - 11/13/2009] The PM was rather good as he explained his Afghan strategy today – calm, lucid and far from tetchyDid you catch Gordon Brown on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this ...
Labour MPs demand vote on Afghanistan war \| And... [Politics: Politics blog \| guardian.co.uk - 11/11/2009] Frank Field tables early day motion signed by 22 demanding debate on conflictThis may not get anywhere, but it's being pushed by Frank Field, who has the ability ...
Chickens of chicanery [IntelliBriefs - 11/10/2009] Premen Addyhttp://www.dailypioneer.com/21441 ... Anglo-American alliance allowed Islamism to strike root during the Cold War as this served ...
I love Europe, but I despair of the EU [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 11/08/2009] Twenty years after I watched the Berlin Wall fall, I worry that the hope it inspired is being slowly crushedWhen the European Court of Human Rights announces a ban ...

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