Posted by: twingecko56 on: May 20, 2010
There are over 2 million heroin addicts in Russia today. Both heroin consumption and production has increased exponentially in central Asia over the last few years. The majority of the smack is being produced in Afghanistan, where poppy farmers can make a fast fortune through growing opium poppies and selling them to their northern neighbors. [...]
Posted by: bbss23 on: May 2, 2010
As sad as it is to report, it appears that things in Afghanistan are not getting any better, but in fact even worse. Violence is up nearly 90 percent in the last year as the amount of roadside bombing, murders and shootings are beginning to skyrocket. Obama continues to speak of change and that we [...]
Posted by: twingecko56 on: February 17, 2010
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is behind bars. The Taliban’s second in command was picked up in Pakistan by U.S. and Pakistani officials. With his capture comes fuel for the largest effort by the United States to root out the Afghanistan Taliban insurgency since 2001. The focus of this new campaign is centered on the [...]
Posted by: danieladaniela on: December 1, 2009
President Obama said on Tuesday that the deployment of 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan is part of his strategy to reverse the Taliban’s and stabilize the country’s government. Obama said he is going to begin sending additional troops starting in early 2010 and will try to end it in 2011. President Obama’s strategy is to deny [...]
Posted by: sambo9 on: December 1, 2009
President Obama gave orders to the top military and Diplomatic Officials on Sunday to send 30,000 more troops to the war zone in Afghanistan. He gave the order ahead of his planned speech that took place on the following Tuesday that will outline his new Afghanistan war strategy. It is said that before Christmas, at [...]
Posted by: gonzaloasis on: November 30, 2009
Obama is getting the last details ready for the speech he will adress this Tuesday at the military academy of West Point, in which he would let the world know about United States’ plans for the war in Afghanistan. One of his many promises when running for President was the return of all American troops [...]
Posted by: bbss23 on: November 2, 2009
Chaos filled Afghanistan for more years then we could ever imagine, as they have never had a leader that represents what the people believe in. Especially over the past few years, chaos has been the word to describe the Afghan government and the citizens. The U.S. has done its part to make peace within [...]
Posted by: gonzaloasis on: November 2, 2009
The elections in Afghanistan have been solved six days before the established date, and have elected Hamid Karzai as new President. One day after the withdrawal from the election of opponent Abdula Abdula, stating that the machinery that generated the massive fraud in the first round of the election was going to be used again to perpetuate another fraud, [...]
Posted by: gonzaloasis on: October 18, 2009
The French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, said that “France will not send one more soldier” to Afghanistan. “Is it necessary to stay in Afghanistan? I think it is. And stay to win,” he said in an interview to Le Figaro. But he also added that they will not do it at any cost. According to Sarkozy, [...]
Posted by: allie11610 on: October 17, 2009
President Obama is facing a huge amount of pressure to decide what he should do with Afghanistan. The president and his top military national security and foreign policy advisers have formed an intensive strategic review of the status of the military in Afghanistan today. The top U.S. commander is suggesting that 40,000 troops are needed [...]
Posted by: lrogersimg on: October 7, 2009
The war with the Middle East should not be still going on, because it is the longest war that the United States has been in. We need to get the soldiers out of Iraq or Afghanistan. We should get as much children and women that are in Iraq and Afghanistan and we should threaten them [...]
Posted by: socalgolfer on: October 6, 2009
Last Saturday, October 3rd, Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan launched a surprise attack on the American troops as they were preparing to pack their things and depart from the military base. It was an extremely intense battle that lasted for twelve hours. It started at 5 A.M. A total of eight Americans were killed and many [...]
Posted by: allie11610 on: October 5, 2009
We have fought with the Afghans for a long time. Last Saturday,we had a new battle with the Afghans again and the battle lasted for about 12 hours. Officials say that at least eight American troops and two-afghan national security forces died, this is the largest amount of deaths in war since 2008. We had [...]
