Top Taliban Commander Arrested

Top Taliban Commander Arrested – The top military commander of the Taliban has been arrested in a joint CIA-Pakistani operation in Pakistan.

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group’s No. 2 leader behind Afghan Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar and a close associate of Osama bin Laden, was captured in the southern Pakistan port city of Karachi.
One [...]

Breacher Vehicle Leads Assault On Marjah

As U.S. Marines begin the assault on the key town of Marjah, Afghanistan, the Assault Breacher Vehicle – aka “The Breacher” – leads the way with tremendous power.

Weighing 70 tons, traveling up to 45 mph and possessed of a smash-mouth name, the Assault Breacher Vehicle is the Marine Corps’ latest answer to a perennial problem [...]

Peter Galbraith On Afghan Election Fraud

By Peter Galbraith, former deputy head of the U.N. mission in Kabul.
No one will ever know how Afghans voted in their country’s presidential elections on Aug. 20, 2009. Seven weeks after the polling, the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) is still trying to separate fraudulent tallies from ballots.
In some provinces, many more votes were [...]

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