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Saturday, November 07, 2009 7:35 PM

NATO

Type: Organization

Name: NATO (The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)

Nationality: United States

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for NATO

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 5 hours ago - 64 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Barack Obama

Obama adviser urges caution on extra Afghan troops

BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's national security adviser, James Jones, has said there is no guarantee that sending extra troops to Afghanistan would solve NATO's problems, and that they could just be 'swallowed up'. In an interview published ... [Reuters India - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, NATO, James L Jones

First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 22 mins ago - 10 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

8 Afghans killed in search for missing troops

NATO forces have mistakenly killed eight Afghan soldiers and police in an air strike during a battle while searching for two missing American soldiers in Afghanistan.The NATO-led force said none of its troops were killed but five were wounded, along with ... [ABC Online - 22 mins ago]

Entities: NATO, Air Strike, 82nd Airborne Division (United States), Todd Vician

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 12 Documents

2 NATO Soldiers Missing in Afghanistan; Taliban Tells of Finding 2 Bodies

KABUL Two NATO soldiers are missing in western Afghanistan, and an intensive search mission is under way, a spokesman for the international forces announced here Friday, as a Taliban spokesman said fighters had recovered the bodies of two drowned s ... [New York Times - 11/06/2009]

Entities: Taliban, Afghanistan, NATO

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 22 hours ago - 16 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

The war in Afghanistan is necessary so why aren't we trying harder to win?

The campaign in Afghanistan is being let down by weak leadership, on both sides of the Atlantic, says Charles Moore By Charles Moore Published: 7:18PM GMT 06 Nov 2009Comments 8 | Comment on this article Forgive me for starting with a harsh point, but ... [Telegraph - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Afghanistan, Charles Moore, Nick Parker, NATO

First Reported 19 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 4 Documents

Robert Simmons

Armenia: NATO and CSTO Likely to Come Face to Face

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization's envoy to the South Caucasus, Robert Simmons, asserted on November 6 that NATO is not jockeying over Armenia with its Moscow-led counterweight, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).Speaking at a news ... [EurasiaNet - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Armenia, NATO, Robert Simmons, Yerevan, Collective Security Treaty Organization

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 7 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Troop Deaths in Afghanistan Stir Outcry in Britain

A victim of Tuesday's attack on British soldiers by an Afghan policeman was brought to a hospital in Helmand Province.Notes from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other areas of conflict in the post-9/11 era. Go to the Blog » KABUL, Afghanistan The deaths ... [New York Times - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Afghanistan, United Kingdom, NATO

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 5 Documents

International Security Assistance Force

NATO, ISAF should help Afghans to strengthen their role in self-gov't: NATO Secretary General

NATO allies and the members of the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) should re-examine their resources to render different support to Afghans in strengthening of their role in self-government, says the official statement by NATO Secretary ... [Trend News Agency - 11/06/2009]

Entities: NATO, International Security Assistance Force, Atlantic Council, Anders Fogh Rasmussen

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 7 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

UN evacuates Afghan staff

The United Nations announced on Thursday it will evacuate more than half its international staff based in Afghanistan after a deadly Taliban attack on UN workers, prompting a dismayed reaction from NATO.The UN insisted it was not abandoning Afghanistan, ... [iafrica.com - 11/06/2009]

Entities: United Nations, Afghanistan, NATO

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 11/06/2009 - 3 Documents (in Politics)

ARMENIA, NATO DEVELOPING COOPERATION

Armenia-NATO cooperation is successfully developing. New events in the framework of the Individual Partnership Action Plan, said Robert Simmons, NATO special representative for Caucasus and Central Asia. ... ... [Armtown.com - 11/06/2009]

Entities: Armenia, NATO, Robert Simmons

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 21 hours ago - 4 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Civilians die in Afghan strike

Melissa EddyBerlin - Germany's defence minister said on Friday he believes civilians were killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan, but insisted that the German-requested attack was necessary from a military standpoint.Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said a Nato ... [News24.com - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Guttenberg (Germany), NATO, Military/Armed Forces, Afghanistan

First Reported 11/05/2009 - Updated 11/05/2009 - 19 Documents

Afghan War: France's Kouchner Slams US, Germany and Karzai

05/11/2009 French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner hit out at the United States and Germany for failing to coordinate on NATO policy and branded Afghan President Hamid Karzai 'corrupt', in remarks reported Thursday.According to the New York Times, Kouchner ... [Al Manar TV - 11/05/2009]

Entities: Bernard Kouchner, Hamid Karzai, Germany, Afghanistan

First Reported 11/06/2009 - Updated 21 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Politics)

Intense talks under way on Afghan war: NATO

Intense deliberations are under way between the United States and its allies regarding the future of Afghanistan as the Obama administration continues its protracted strategic review of the war, the NATO chief said Friday. NATO Secretary-General Anders ... [The Nation Pakistan - 21 hours ago]

Entities: NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Afghanistan, Jens Stoltenberg, Nationalism

Quotes

Those killed include four Afghan soldiers, three policemen and another person believed to have been an interpreter. "Yesterday, in a NATO air strike, seven Afghan [soldiers and police] were martyred in Badghis province" Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman General Zaher Azimy said

8 Afghans killed in search for missing troops [ABC Online - 22 mins ago]

...ministry spokesman Mohammad Zahir Azimi told AFP there was no doubt Afghan personnel had been killed and injured by their international partners. "It was an erroneous air strike which caused casualties to friendly forces" he said. More than 100,000 troops under NATO and US command are in Afghanistan fighting a Taliban insurgency now at its deadliest in the eight years...

NATO strike kills 7 Afghan security personnel: government [Philippine Daily Inquirer - 33 mins ago]

And even Nato's Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has been quoted as saying: "The basic problem in Afghanistan is not too much Taliban; it's too little good governance."

Afghan challenges for President Karzai [e-Ariana - 1 hour ago]

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Conrad Black: Centuries in the making [National Post - 3 hours ago]

Blogs

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Russia Spy Chief Warns Of New Georgia War [Asian Energy - 18 hours ago] Russian troops crossing the Russian-Georgian border. (Photo from Russiablog)From Swiss Info:OSCOW (Reuters) - Russian military intelligence believes Georgia might ...
Remembrance Day: Goodbye to all that [Comment is free \| guardian.co.uk - 19 hours ago] It has been another bad week in Afghanistan. Seven British soldiers have died, as well as uncounted civilians, some unintended casualties of the Nato effort. Support ...
Krakauer: McChrystal shouldn't be in charge in ... [CNN Political Ticker - 20 hours ago] WASHINGTON (CNN) – Best-selling author Jon Krakauer sharply criticized Gen. Stanley McChrystal for his handling of former NFL player-turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman's ...
Dissatisfaction at US failure to make Afghan tr... [BBC NEWS \| Talk about Newsnight - 11/06/2009] Prime Minister Gordon Brown's speech on Friday morning was intended to make the case for a continued British combat role in Afghanistan after another grim week of ...
Two ISAF troops missing in western Afghanistan [The Long War Journal - 11/06/2009] Two soldiers serving with the International Security Assistance Force and operating in western Afghanistan have been reported missing. The two soldiers, whose ...

Audio/Video

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Why was Berlin the key to the Cold War? [Slate Magazine - 22 hours ago]
Why Berlin Mattered [Slate Magazine - 23 hours ago]
Afghan protests over Koran burning [Reuters Video: Top News - 10/26/2009]
NATO Backs U.S. Troop Boost in Afghanistan [ABC News Video: World - 10/25/2009]
Obama mulls Afghan war strategy [Reuters Video: Top News - 10/23/2009]

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