Week in Review

November 15, 2009
Clinton: No Long-Term Stake in Afghanistan

•  Afghan Surge Would Send Costs Soaring
•  Afghan Women Want West to Back Off 'Rape Law'
• NATO Braced for Attack as President Karzai Is Sworn In
•  Afghanistan's 300-Year-Long Civil Wa
  
  

  	Afghanistan Plans Court to Try Corrupt Ministers
  	Increasing 'Indian Presence' in Kabul Cause for Concern for Pakistan
  	Four Taliban, Three Civilians Die in Afghan Clash
  	90-Kg of Explosives Found and Defused in Kabul
  	Biometric Tests to Identify Rebels in Afghanista

  
  Editorials:
  
  

• The Afghan Government Is More a Racket Than a Regime
  

• Why the Afghan Surge Will Fail by Conn Hallinan 
•   Without War We Are Nothing, Apparently by Alex Massie 
• Why Die for Karzai? by Tom Hayden
• The Fifty-Year War by Jonathan Schell
• Pacifying Afghanistan: A Dangerous Dream by Walter Rodgers

Afghanistan Occupation News:

	Bombed, Blasted and Shot Yet Still the Taliban Come
	Three Americans Killed in Afghanistan
	71% Support Afghan Withdrawal, Says British Poll
	South Koreans Protest Afghan Troop Dispatch
	British Troops Say They Killed 80 Taliban in 10 Days of Helmland Fighting
	Afghan Roadside Bombs a New Priority for US
	Traumatized British Troops Get Payout Pittance After Afghanistan and Iraq
	Marine Corps to Make Women an Integral Part of Spec Ops Teams in Afghanistan
	Army Study: Mental Health Staff Lacking in Afghanistan
	Afghan War Protest Targets NATO Meet in Edinburgh
	City Vigil Supports UK Soldier Who Refused to Deploy to Afghanistan
	Canada: 'Space Clown' Had More Attention Than Afghan Mission

November 16, 2009

	Attack Aimed at French General Kills 12 Afghans
	Obama: Al-Qaeda Still Greatest Threat to US Clinton: No Long-Term Designs on Afghanistan German Foreign Minister Calls for Afghan Withdrawal Plan US Readies New Facility for Afghanistan Detainees

Afghanistan

French, Afghan Troops Push Into Hostile Valley Three Afghan Soldiers Killed in Taliban Rocket Attack The Hidden Beauty Parlor of Helmand NATO: 2 Rockets Hit Kabul Airport Area; No Injury Afghan Forces Get Two C-27 Military Support Planes UK Helicopters Boost Troops in Afghanistan Army Holding Maryland Soldier in Afghanistan as Deserter

Pakistan

Bombing at Police Station in Pakistan Kills 3 Militants Attack 2 Anti-Taliban Figures 26 More Militants Killed in Swat Valley 18 Taliban Killed in Orakzai Agency For Pakistani President, Goodbye to Goodwill Pakistan's Conspiracy Cottage Industry US Rejects Hersh Report on Pakistani Nukes

November 17, 2009

	Attack Aimed at French General Kills 12 Afghans
	Obama: Al-Qaeda Still Greatest Threat to US Yet Another Anti-Corruption Unit for Afghanistan

Afghanistan

UK Soldier Killed in Afghanistan Rocket Attack Kills Five Afghan Civilians Militants Attack Police in South Afghanistan Brown: UK Countdown to Leave Afghanistan Could Start Next Year EU Ministers Mull Afghanistan

Pakistan

Afghanistan Strategists Turn Focus to Pakistan Pakistan Taliban Taps Punjab Heartland for Recruits Bombing at Police Station in Pakistan Kills 4

November 18, 2009

	Afghanistan: About as Corrupt as They Come
	Afghanistan, Iraq Near Bottom of Corruption Index British Army Formally Sets Out 'Bags of Gold' Strategy UK's Brown Tries to Sell Unpopular Afghan War Poll: Most Americans Say War in Afghanistan Going Badly
	Swat Valley Taliban Chief Escapes to Afghanistan

Afghanistan

NATO Chief Confident of Big Afghan Troop Increase Afghan Minister Accused of Taking Bribe EU Mission to Train Afghan Police in Disarray US Struggles With 'Electronic Fratricide' in Afghanistan Slovakia to Add 250 NATO Troops to Afghan Mission US Turns to Local Guns-For-Hire to Guard Afghan Outpost What's Real Price Tag on War in Afghanistan? Taliban Militants Fire Rockets on Crowded Bazaar Northeast of Kabul

Pakistan

Pakistani 'Successes' May Sway US Troop Decision Bomb Targeting Police Chief Kills 1, Wounds 6 in Pakistan Security Forces Further Consolidate Positions in South Waziristan Taliban Blow Up Girls' School in Pakistan: Officials

November 19, 2009

	NATO Delays Afghan Talks Until Obama Decides
	White House: No Afghan Decision Before Thanksgiving As Clinton Visits, Karzai Inaugurated to 2nd Term as Afghan President Suicide Bomber Kills 10 Civilians in Afghanistan Afghans Say Poverty, Not Taliban, Main Cause of War Obama Calls Leaks on Afghanistan a Firing Offense
	20 Killed in Courthouse Bombing in NW Pakistan
	Pakistani Army Kills 6 Civilians, Sparking Protests US Drone Strike Kills Four in North Waziristan Taliban Declare Guerrilla War Against Pakistan Army

Afghanistan

Afghan Minister Accused of Taking $30 Million Bribe Obama Says He Is Seeking 'Endgame' to Afghan Conflict Obama Demands Afghan Reforms Produce Results Afghans See No Change to Life of Hardship, Fear Afghan Attorney General to Indict Five Leading Politicians Germany Approves Extension for Afghan Mission Afghan Capital Braces for Karzai Inauguration Troubled Afghan President Readies Inaugural Speech Canada Spending Millions on Private Security in Afghanistan Dozens of Militants Die in Afghanistan Canadian Diplomats Ordered to Hold Back Information on Afghan Prison Torture Business Flees Afghan Instability British Soldier Killed in Afghanistan

Pakistan

Taliban Blame Blackwater for Pakistan Bombings 24 Killed in Hangu and Orakzai Airstrikes UN Investigators Quiz Musharraf Over Bhutto Assassination Pakistan Maintains 'Proof' of Indian Meddling in Balochistan US Pleased With Pakistan's Advances in South Waziristan

November 20, 2009

	Afghan Governor Gave 3,000 Men to the Taliban
	Suicide Bomber Kills 17 in Western Afghanistan Gates: Too Early to Set Afghan Handover Timeline Senator Specter Opposes Adding Troops in Afghanistan Karzai Inauguration: Feted by Warlords and Foreign Diplomats White House: No Afghan Decision Until After Thanksgiving US-Run Prison in Afghanistan Holds Few Taliban Diehards

Afghanistan

Clinton Emerges as Obama’s Key Link to Afghan Leader US Warming Ties With Karzai UN: Afghanistan Is World's Worst Place to Be Born Suicide Attack Kills Two US Soldiers as Karzai Starts Second Term Karzai Inaugurated – but Where Were the Crowds? Karzai Makes Big Promises in Afghan Inaugural Clinton Says Karzai's Speech 'New Starting Point' Suicide Bomber Kills 10 Civilians in Afghanistan Troops Fear IED Blasts While Riding in Humvees NATO Chief: We Cannot Afford to Turn Our Back on Afghanistan Germany to Reassess Afghan Troop Levels Next Year

Pakistan

Suicide Attack Is Pakistani City's 7th in 2 Weeks Report: Afghan Taliban Chief Takes Cover in Pakistan Populace Pakistani Nuclear Scientist Said to Affirm Accuracy of Report on China Ties 2 Officers Killed in Pakistan After Court Bombing US Woos Skeptical Pakistanis on Afghan Strategy Pakistan Seeks to Recast Its Role in Afghan War Seven Hurt in Quetta Rocket Attack Major Militant Attacks in Pakistan Since October