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US Politics & Gov't News tagged with taliban

First U.S. Official Resigns Over Afghan War
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: USA, Afghanistan, Marine, Iraq, State Department, miltary, Taliban, U.S. official, political resignation, afghan insurgency )

ON VACATI
- 28 days ago - foxnews.com
A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan has become the first U.S. official to resign in protest of the Afghan war.....
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U.S. Terror Cells / 09.11.01 / Economic Crisis / Two Islams & U.S. Media Response
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: terrorism, al-qaeda, taliban, terrorists, 09.11.01, economic crisis, finacial crisis, media, u.s., FBI, Islam, Muslim, world, news, government, politics, sleeper-cells, radical-Islam, UnitedStates, americans, military, obama, war, economy )

SirRobert
- 65 days ago - volconvo.com
An interconnected chain of events as we all know has been underway since September 11, 2001, which is continuing to cascade beneath the existing surface of the United States infrastructure. The U.S. media is mostly silent staving off another Civil War!
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Why the Taliban/Al Qaeda Chose Afghanistan Base of Operations
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: afghanistan, taliban, al-qaeda, terrorism, terrorists, global-war-on-terror, war, conflict, politics, government, u.s., radical-Islam, muslim, history, russia, world, research, humans, Americans, america, news, military, media, troops )

SirRobert
- 65 days ago - volconvo.com
The Russians had already learned that fighting a war in the Afghanistan mountains was a 'no win scenario', due to the endless underground tunnel networks, and an endless supply of opium trade financing revenue. Be Sure to read posts #8, #14, and #16.
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US Taxpayers Sponsor the Taliban!
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: taliban, americans, government, politics, propaganda, crime, war, terrorism, dishonesty, corruption, abuse, ethics scandal )

David
- 80 days ago - globalpost.com
"It is the open secret no one wants to talk about, the unwelcome truth that most prefer to hide. In Afghanistan, one of the richest sources of Taliban funding is foreign assistance"...Including U.S. taxpayer money!
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AP Sources: Taliban Video Shows Captive US Soldier
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, usa, troops, military, missing soldier, afghanistan, Taliban, crime, terrorism )

Dee
- 128 days ago - news.yahoo.com
WASHINGTON - The American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed to have been captured, appeared on a video posted Saturday to a Web site by the Taliban.
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Pamphlets Aid Search for U.S. Soldier Missing in Afghanistan
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, military, usa, troops, Afghanistan, missing, kinnapped, Taliban, terrorism )

Dee
- 131 days ago - cnn.com
(CNN) -- The U.S. military is distributing pamphlets in eastern Afghanistan in an effort to find a soldier who has been missing for more than two weeks, the military said Thursday.
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Taliban Threatens to Kill Captured U.S. Soldier
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, usa, troops, missing soldier, military, afghanistan, taliban, threats, killing, terrorism, crime )

Dee
- 131 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Military skeptical of report; fliers calling for his release airdropped.. The U.S. military is distributing fliers along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan asking for informaton about a missing soldier.
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Arms From U.S. May Be Falling Into Taliban Hands
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, usa, troops, afghanistan, Insurgents, Arms and ordnance, taliban, terrorism )

Dee
- 188 days ago - nytimes.com
KABUL-Insurgents in Afghanistan, fighting from some of the poorest and most remote regions on earth, have managed for years to maintain an intensive guerrilla war against materially superior American and Afghan forces.
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Saving Obama
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Afghanistan War, Foreign Policy Failure Afghanistan, Foreign Policy Failure Pakistan, Obama Administration, Obama Hope, Obama Middle East Policy, Peace, Propaganda, Taliban )

Just
- 234 days ago - opednews.com
I was numb to the lies and simplistic rhetoric of George W. Bush. But when Barack Obama tries to fill those incredibly small shoes, to rev up the same constituency of true believers (the constituency that didn't vote for him) and sell the same war --
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Republican Rep. Pete Sessions: Taliban Is 'a Model' for How GOP Can Become An 'Insurgency.'»
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Republicans, Taliban, insurgency, obstructionists, Congress, partisanship, corruption, abuse, ethics )

Blue
- 290 days ago - thinkprogress.org
You can't make this stuff up ... Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) said the Republican party will have to be come an "insurgency" to counter Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, and added that the Taliban can serve as "a model":
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9 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Attack in Afghanistan
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: war, afghanistan, Taliban, soldiers, attack, war, government, corruption, bush )

Terri
- 498 days ago - nytimes.com
Taliban insurgents mounted a large attack on an American base in eastern Afghanistan, killing nine U.S. soldiers in a fierce battle that lasted for hours.
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NATO Admits Mistakenly Supplying Arms and Food to Taliban
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: usa, afghanistan, taliban )


- 584 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Nato forces mistakenly supplied food, water and arms to Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, officials today admitted. (The Taliban probably wondered why U.S. weapons and aid to them suddenly resumed; the U.S. was their main support in the first place)
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Women Barred From Casting Vote In Tribal Areas
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Pakistan, Afghanistan, Taliban, elections, woman suffrage )


- 645 days ago - opednews.com
About 424,332 of the 1,524,284 registered women voters from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and frontier regions will be deprived of their right to vote following direct threats from local Taliban, says a report.
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