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CQ: Senate Homeland Leadership: N.Y. Terror Trial Funding Won’t Pass
By Rob Margetta
Congressional Quarterly
February 24, 2010
The leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee sent a clear message Wednesday to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano: If they have their way, her department won’t get the $200 million it has requested for terrorist trials in New York City. |
NYT: In Blow to Taliban, 2 More Senior Leaders Are Arrested
By Dexter Filkins
New York Times
February 18, 2010
KABUL, Afghanistan — Two senior Taliban leaders have been arrested in recent days inside Pakistan, officials said Thursday, as American and Pakistani intelligence agents continued to press their offensive against the group’s leadership after the capture of the insurgency’s military commander last month.
AFP: Suspected 9/11 bomber should face military trial: poll
Nov 17, 2009 by Military Families
WASHINGTON — Almost two-thirds of Americans disagree with the decision by President Barack Obama's administration to try the suspected 9/11 mastermind in a civilian court, a poll showed Monday.
Sixty-four percent of those surveyed said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be tried in a military court, while only 34 percent agreed with Obama that the civilian judicial system was the best way forward, the CNN poll said. More >>
AP: Gates blocks release of detainee abuse photos
Nov 16, 2009 by Military Families
By Stephen Ohlemacher - The Associated Press
Sunday Nov 15, 2009 12:01:47 EST
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates has blocked the public release of any more pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors, saying their release would endanger American soldiers.
The Obama administration filed a brief with the Supreme Court late Friday saying that Gates has invoked new powers blocking the release of the photos. More >>
AP: Gates: Afghanistan war strategy should come first
Oct 20, 2009 by Military Families
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Associated Press
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY JET – The Obama administration needs to decide on a war strategy for Afghanistan without waiting for a government there to be widely accepted as legitimate, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday.
Gates' comments put him at odds with top White House and NATO officials who are balking at ordering more troops and other resources to Afghanistan until the disputed election crisis there is resolved.
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NYT: Deliberating on Afghanistan, in Plain Sight
Oct 14, 2009 by Military Families
By Jeff Zeleny
New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Afghanistan strategy sessions that President Obama is leading in the Situation Room are closed, classified and confidential. Yet many days it seems as though the White House is delivering a play-by-play account of the commander in chief’s decision making.
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AP: Official: Taliban better financed than al-Qaida
Oct 13, 2009 by Military Families
By Richard Lardner
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Taliban are in much stronger financial shape than al-Qaida and rely on a wide range of criminal activities to pay for attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan, a senior Treasury Department official said Monday.
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WSJ: Big Attacks in Iraq Decrease, but Arab-Kurd Tensions Remain
Oct 12, 2009 by Military Families
By Gina Chon
Wall Street Journal
BAGHDAD -- While large-scale attacks in Iraq are decreasing, tensions between Arabs and Kurds remain high and represent the top driver of instability in the country, U.S. military spokesman Brig. Gen. Stephen Lanza said Monday.
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Wash Post - A To-Do List for Afghanistan
Oct 9, 2009 by Military Families
By Turki al-Faisal
Washington Post
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- As President Obama considers what to do about Afghanistan, it is important that he hear perspectives from all sides concerned about that critical region. In Riyadh, it is clear that the Taliban is weak in Afghanistan. Their record in government is well remembered by Afghans, including large numbers of Pashtuns, all of whom suffered greatly at the hands of Mohammad Omar's Taliban cohorts.
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AP: Obama, advisors weigh Afghanistan options
Oct 7, 2009 by Military Families
By Ben Feller
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — On the eighth anniversary of the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama is gathering his national security team for another strategy session.
Obama, who inherited the war when he took office last January, is examining how to proceed with a worsening combat situation that has claimed nearly 800 U.S. lives and sapped American patience. Launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to defeat the Taliban and rid al-Qaida of a home base, the war has lasted longer than ever envisioned.
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Time: Two Arguments for What to Do in Afghanistan
Oct 5, 2009 by Military Families
By Peter Bergen and Leslie H. Gelb
Time
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ICYMI: Guantánamo Deadline May Be Missed
Sep 29, 2009 by Military Families
By PETER BAKER and DAVID JOHNSTON
New York Times
September 29, 2009
WASHINGTON — The White House suggested Monday that it might not be able to close the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, by next January as President Obama promised, an acknowledgment underscoring the difficulties in figuring out what to do with the men being held there. More >>
