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submitted by rodeox 8 months ago, from nytimes.com
As he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, President Obama defended the necessity of some wars, aligned his decision to escalate the combat in Afghanistan with the rationale for other conflicts where the United States has led the fight against oppression and appealed for greater... More
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submitted by riverdrops 16 months ago, from google.com
Taliban militants on Thursday assumed control of a district in Pakistan about 100 kilometres from the capital, patrolling streets and markets, officials and witnesses said. Hundreds of armed fighters have set up checkpoints and occupied mosques in Buner district northwest of Islamabad, sparking... More
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submitted by riverdrops 16 months ago, from nytimes.com
Despite a recent spate of attacks, the United States will leave Iraq on schedule, the top American commander in Iraq said on Sunday. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gen. Raymond T. Odierno said that he would continue to monitor the situation on the ground, but that overall violence in... More
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submitted by chiasma 17 months ago, from nytimes.com
President Obama made an unannounced trip to Iraq on Tuesday, his first visit as commander in chief to the site of one of the two wars he inherited and must now see through to an end. More
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submitted by eooties 17 months ago, from nytimes.com
Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top American commander for Iraq and Afghanistan, warned a Senate panel on Wednesday that militant extremists in Pakistan “could literally take down their state” if left unchallenged, as he and two other top officials presented a grim picture of growing dangers in the... More
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submitted by agabriel 17 months ago, from news.bbc.co.uk
The US military says it has evidence elements within Pakistan's military intelligence, the ISI, continue to provide support for the Taleban. Officials said that this support for militants had to end. More
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submitted by eooties 17 months ago, from bloomberg.com
President Barack Obama plans to send 4,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan to train local forces and set benchmarks for progress in battling militants there and in Pakistan, administration officials said. The president’s new strategy for turning the corner in the eight-year-old war... More
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submitted by trippie48 17 months ago, from nytimes.com
President Obama and his national security advisers are considering expanding the American covert war in Pakistan far beyond the unruly tribal areas to strike at a different center of Taliban power in Baluchistan, where top Taliban leaders are orchestrating attacks into southern Afghanistan. More
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submitted by bafficio 18 months ago, from boston.com
President Obama ordered an overhaul yesterday of the way the US government awards defense and other contracts, saying that more competition is needed to drive down costs and declaring that "the days of giving government contractors a blank check are over." More
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submitted by trippie48 18 months ago, from news.bbc.co.uk
President Barack Obama is expected to announce his plan to withdraw most of the US troops from Iraq by August 2010. The move is said to envisage reducing troop levels from the current 142,000 to some 50,000 by that time. Mr Obama is reported to have told members of Congress that that number needed.. More
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submitted by rodeox 19 months ago, from nytimes.com
Iraqis across the country voted Saturday in provincial elections that will help shape their future, but regardless of the outcome it is clear that the Americans are already drifting offstage — and that most Iraqis are ready to see them go. More
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submitted by grandie4 19 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
Iraqis passed through security checkpoints and razor-wire cordons to vote Saturday in provincial elections that are considered a crucial test of the nation's stability as U.S. officials consider the pace of troop withdrawals. Polls opened shortly after dawn after a step-by-step security clampdown... More
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submitted by eooties 19 months ago, from kansascity.com
President George W. Bush on Monday used his 50th and final news conference to defend his service and thank reporters for theirs. “This is the ultimate exit interview,” Bush said in the White House briefing room. More
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submitted by rodeox 20 months ago, from washingtonpost.com
White House Chief of Staff Joshua B. Bolten and national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley remember conferring with President Bush during the darkest days of the Iraq war, in 2005 and 2006, when violence was out of control. In daily 7 a.m. meetings in the Oval Office, Bush reviewed "blue sheets"... More
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submitted by trippie48 20 months ago, from nytimes.com
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have been unusually talkative in recent weeks, sharing candid thoughts in a string of exit interviews. But after eight years of a tight partnership that gave Mr. Cheney powerful influence inside the White House, the two are sounding strikingly... More
