“More than 470 inmates at a prison in southern Afghanistan have escaped through a tunnel hundreds of metres long and dug from outside the jail. Officials in the city of Kandahar said many of those who escaped from Sarposa jail were Taliban insurgents. The Kandahar provincial governor’s office said at least 12 had since been […]
4/19/2011
In a Washington Post article on April 19, 2011, Lt. Gen. David M. Rodriguez described his arrival in Afghanistan in 2007. ” ‘[W]e didn’t know enough…it took us six months to figure out what we were doing… We fought hard every day to understand how Afghanistan worked. But we had a very shallow knowledge.’ “ […]
4/14/2011
“International forces in Afghanistan say they have killed their number two insurgent target in the country–senior al-Qaeda leader Abdul Ghani. The Saudi citizen died in an air strike almost two weeks ago [April 14, 2011] in Kunar province, near Pakistan, Nato-led forces said. Abdul Ghani, also known as Abu Hafs al-Najdi, ran training camps and […]
4/14/2011
“A senior Al Qaeda leader and the second most wanted insurgent in the country has been killed after a four-year manhunt in Afghanistan. Abu Hafs al-Najdi, also known as Abdul Ghani, a Saudi Arabian, was killed 12 days ago [April 14, 2011] in Dangam district as he met other senior insurgents and Al Qaeda members, […]
4/7/2011
“US troops could if required by Iraq stay in the country beyond the agreed withdrawal date of 31 December, 2011, the US defence secretary has said. Robert Gates, who is visiting Iraq, says an extended military presence is an option. ‘If folks here are going to want us to have a presence, we’re going to […]
4/4/2011
“Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday [April 4, 2011] that [9/11 mastermind] Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 terror suspects will face a military trial at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. The decision is a sharp reversal for the Obama administration, which wanted the terror suspects to have federal civilian trials. Besides […]
3/29/2011
According to information from the Congressional Research Service report on March 29, 2011: “The 9/11 attacks cost the United States at least $1 trillion through direct property damage and second-order economic consequences, including the impact on the stock market. Thereafter, budgetary outlays for the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq that were undertaken as a […]
3/15/2011
According to an article in the March/April 2011 issue of Foreign Policy, Afghan President Hamid Karzai: “frequently told top U.S. officials that of the three ‘main enemies’ he faced–the United States, the international community, and the Taliban–he would side first with the Taliban.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.] – […]
3/11/2011
“The official Department of Defense casualty figures reflected 4,421 U.S. military and defense department civilian deaths in Iraq as of March 11, 2011, and an additional 31,938 wounded in action. At the same point, the Iraq Body Count website found between 99,980 and 109,230 Iraqi civilian deaths as a result of the violence.” – Daveed […]
3/7/2011
As of March 7, 2011, “U.S.-led military forces have captured or killed more than 900 Taliban leaders in the past 10 months, making it harder for the insurgency to maintain its offensive capabilities, according to the U.S. military in Afghanistan. ‘We are getting indications that the (insurgency) is struggling to find replacements for leaders,’ said […]