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Afghanistan's Fiscal Cliff - By Matthieu Aikins | Foreign Policy - 0 views

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"Afghanistan's Fiscal Cliff Kabul-watchers are rightly worried about what the withdrawal of Western aid money will mean for one of the most impoverished countries on the planet. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Afghanistan's Fiscal Cliff Kabul-watchers are rightly worried about what the withdrawal of Western aid money will mean for one of the most impoverished countries on the planet. "</div>

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SIGAR: Roadside anti-IED devices never installed, increased risk to troops, asks Gen. A... - 0 views

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"SIGAR: Roadside anti-IED devices never installed, increased risk to troops, asks Gen. Allen for "immediate" action"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"SIGAR: Roadside anti-IED devices never installed, increased risk to troops, asks Gen. Allen for "immediate" action"</div>

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Afghan schools and clinics built by British military forced to close | World news | The... - 0 views

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Development in Afghanistan: ""Of course we built too much," said one official. "We didn't think about how the Afghans would pay for it. But it was understandable. Nobody is blaming the military. We wanted to show them what we could do for them, but without regard for sustainability.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Development in Afghanistan: ""Of course we built too much," said one official. "We didn't think about how the Afghans would pay for it. But it was understandable. Nobody is blaming the military. We wanted to show them what we could do for them, but without regard for sustainability.""</div>

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UN says US taxpayers fund Taliban| Reuters - 0 views

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"Another lucrative source of income has been the foreign funding of aid and development projects. Estimates of Taliban income from contracts funded by the United States and other overseas donors range from 10 to 20 per cent of the total, usually by the Taliban agreeing protection money with the contractor or demanding a cut," the report said.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Another lucrative source of income has been the foreign funding of aid and development projects. Estimates of Taliban income from contracts funded by the United States and other overseas donors range from 10 to 20 per cent of the total, usually by the Taliban agreeing protection money with the contractor or demanding a cut," the report said.</div>

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PTSDland - By Anna Badkhen | Foreign Policy - 0 views

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"But can an entire country have PTSD?... take Afghanistan, a war zone I know well. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"But can an entire country have PTSD?... take Afghanistan, a war zone I know well. "</div>

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America's Last Prisoner of War | Politics News | Rolling Stone - 1 views

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"Three years ago, a 23-year-old soldier walked off his base in Afghanistan and into the hands of the Taliban. Now he's a crucial pawn in negotiations to end the war. Will the Pentagon leave a man behind?"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Three years ago, a 23-year-old soldier walked off his base in Afghanistan and into the hands of the Taliban. Now he's a crucial pawn in negotiations to end the war. Will the Pentagon leave a man behind?"</div>

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Karzai Family Moves to Protect Its Privilege - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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"With the end in sight for Hamid Karzai's days in office as Afghanistan's president, members of his family are trying to protect their status, weighing how to hold on to power while secretly fighting among themselves for control of the fortune they have amassed in the last decade. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"With the end in sight for Hamid Karzai's days in office as Afghanistan's president, members of his family are trying to protect their status, weighing how to hold on to power while secretly fighting among themselves for control of the fortune they have amassed in the last decade. "</div>

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Michael Hughes: How U.S. Taxpayers Are Funding the Taliban - 0 views

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"The U.S. has been financing both sides of the war in Afghanistan since 2001 as a startling percentage of foreign aid continues to flood Taliban coffers on a daily basis, according to Douglas A. Wissing in his new book, Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The U.S. has been financing both sides of the war in Afghanistan since 2001 as a startling percentage of foreign aid continues to flood Taliban coffers on a daily basis, according to Douglas A. Wissing in his new book, Funding the Enemy: How U.S. Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban."</div>

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Fight Against Afghan Corruption Pits Few People Against Big Foe - 0 views

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"Anti-corruption programs established to combat graft and fiscal malfeasance in Afghanistan are struggling with a daunting mission. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Anti-corruption programs established to combat graft and fiscal malfeasance in Afghanistan are struggling with a daunting mission. "</div>

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Is counterinsurgency dead? - 0 views

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West Point faculty debate whether winning-hearts-and-minds strategy is dead.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">West Point faculty debate whether winning-hearts-and-minds strategy is dead.</div>

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Obama's Journey to Reshape Afghan War - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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"It was just one brief exchange about Afghanistan with an aide late in 2009, but it suggests how President Obama's thinking about what he once called "a war of necessity" began to radically change less than a year after he took up residency in the White House. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"It was just one brief exchange about Afghanistan with an aide late in 2009, but it suggests how President Obama's thinking about what he once called "a war of necessity" began to radically change less than a year after he took up residency in the White House. "</div>

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David Isenberg: Milo Minderbinder in Afghanistan: Part 1 - 0 views

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"Remember Milo Minderbinder, a fictional character in Joseph Heller's famous novel, Catch-22? Minderbinder is a war profiteer during World War II, "perhaps the best known of all fictional profiteers" in American literature. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Remember Milo Minderbinder, a fictional character in Joseph Heller's famous novel, Catch-22? Minderbinder is a war profiteer during World War II, "perhaps the best known of all fictional profiteers" in American literature. "</div>

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Podcast: KSFR-Santa Fe interview on Radio Cafe Show "Douglas Wissing Historian, journalist, and author of the book Funding the Enemy: How US Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Podcast: KSFR-Santa Fe interview on Radio Cafe Show "Douglas Wissing Historian, journalist, and author of the book Funding the Enemy: How US Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban"</div>

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Afghan Central Bank Curbs Cash Exodus - WSJ.com - 0 views

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"The Afghan central bank's efforts to curb the exodus of money abroad are bearing fruit...The money flow-part of it suspected by U.S. and Afghan officials to be stolen foreign aid and proceeds from the drug trade-undermines the country's economy just as foreign forces depart. The cash flight also raises Western concerns about Afghanistan, already the source of most of the world's illicit opiates, becoming a global money-laundering center. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The Afghan central bank's efforts to curb the exodus of money abroad are bearing fruit...The money flow-part of it suspected by U.S. and Afghan officials to be stolen foreign aid and proceeds from the drug trade-undermines the country's economy just as foreign forces depart. The cash flight also raises Western concerns about Afghanistan, already the source of most of the world's illicit opiates, becoming a global money-laundering center. "</div>

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American tax dollars are helping to bankroll the Taliban | Fox News - 0 views

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"Today the news broke that United States officials, in a futile hope of quelling violence, have been party to a pernicious "catch-and-release" system that facilitated the secret release of high-level insurgent detainees, who are then free to strike at American forces again. As American taxpayers try to process these indicators of a failing war, do they also know that their taxes are helping to bankroll the Taliban?"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Today the news broke that United States officials, in a futile hope of quelling violence, have been party to a pernicious "catch-and-release" system that facilitated the secret release of high-level insurgent detainees, who are then free to strike at American forces again. As American taxpayers try to process these indicators of a failing war, do they also know that their taxes are helping to bankroll the Taliban?"</div>

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Osama bin Laden's ironic victory | Washington Examiner - 0 views

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Bin Laden has been dead for a year, but his strategy continues to work in Afghanistan. Well over a decade after he first formulated his economic "bleed until bankrupt" strategy, the United States continues to spend hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars in Afghanistan on generally fruitless counterinsurgency operations"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Bin Laden has been dead for a year, but his strategy continues to work in Afghanistan. Well over a decade after he first formulated his economic "bleed until bankrupt" strategy, the United States continues to spend hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars in Afghanistan on generally fruitless counterinsurgency operations"</div>

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Col. wins award for scathing Afghan war essay - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Ira... - 0 views

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"An Army lieutenant colonel who accused senior U.S. officials of concealing bad news about the war in Afghanistan will receive the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling on Wednesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Lt. Col. Daniel Davis laid out his concerns in "Truth, Lies, and Afghanistan,""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"An Army lieutenant colonel who accused senior U.S. officials of concealing bad news about the war in Afghanistan will receive the Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling on Wednesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Lt. Col. Daniel Davis laid out his concerns in "Truth, Lies, and Afghanistan,""</div>

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Exclusive: Karzai family looks to extend boss rule in Afghanistan - National Afghanista... - 0 views

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"According to journalist Douglas Wissing in his new book, Funding the Enemy, once the unholy alliance was forged between the brothers Karzai, rapacious warlords and incestuous multinational corporations, U.S. taxpayer dollars began to "lubricate an entire system of corruption that eventually extended to the Taliban.""

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"According to journalist Douglas Wissing in his new book, Funding the Enemy, once the unholy alliance was forged between the brothers Karzai, rapacious warlords and incestuous multinational corporations, U.S. taxpayer dollars began to "lubricate an entire system of corruption that eventually extended to the Taliban.""</div>

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The real Afghanistan - Brattleboro Reformer - 0 views

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"Everyone knows a bit about the failed U.S. efforts in Afghanistan to win the hearts and minds of the people and to install a stable government, but in historian/journalist Doug Wissing's upcoming book, "Funding the Enemy: How U.S, Taxpayers Fund the Taliban," the stark details are laid bare. Wissing spent months in the country with U.S. soldiers and conducted hundreds of interviews. His conclusions are revelatory and scandalous. "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"Everyone knows a bit about the failed U.S. efforts in Afghanistan to win the hearts and minds of the people and to install a stable government, but in historian/journalist Doug Wissing's upcoming book, "Funding the Enemy: How U.S, Taxpayers Fund the Taliban," the stark details are laid bare. Wissing spent months in the country with U.S. soldiers and conducted hundreds of interviews. His conclusions are revelatory and scandalous. "</div>

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The Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) - 0 views

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"The attacks that took place a week ago in Kabul received more than their fair share of media coverage. The same thing cannot be said for the parallel attacks launched by insurgents simultaneously in three other provincial capitals."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"The attacks that took place a week ago in Kabul received more than their fair share of media coverage. The same thing cannot be said for the parallel attacks launched by insurgents simultaneously in three other provincial capitals."</div>

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