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Sat Nov 29, 2:01 AM
By Jon Hemming
KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. general commanding NATO forces in Afghanistan has ordered a merger of the office that releases news with “Psy Ops,” which deals with propaganda, a move that goes against the alliance’s policy, three officials said.

Dan Savage on the Prop 8 aftermath, and the argument that religious bigots are simply expressing their heartfelt faith:
“In the wake of Prop 8 millions of gays and lesbians all over the country have decided that we’re no longer going to play by the old rules. We’re not going to let people kick our [...]

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Cernig
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called for a timetable to end the occupation of Afghanistan by Western forces or if not, said that the West must accept negotiations with the Taliban to end bloodshed there.
President Hamid Karzai told a visiting U.N. Security Council delegation Tuesday that the international community should set a timeline to end [...]

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Noah Shachtman
Don Ayala, the military contractor accused of a revenge killing in Afghanistan, is now back in the United States.
Ayala began working in Afghanistan in late September, as part of an Army Human Terrain Team, which embeds cultural advisors in combat units. Six weeks later, Ayala allegedly shot Abdul Salam in the head, after Salam [...]

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By Peter Bergen
CNN National Security Analyst
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A classified review of U.S. policy in Afghanistan is likely to judge that the United States is losing ground there, according to a government official involved with preparing the review.
The review, under way since September 20 and led by Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute, the senior National [...]

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LAKE PLACID — Some of the most powerful military commanders in the world met in Lake Placid over the weekend.
Speculation was rife after a C-32, the military equivalent to a Boeing 757 airliner, touched down Friday at the Adirondack Regional Airport in Lake Clear.
The 155-foot-long jumbo jet, which is used as Air Force 2 when [...]

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from Huff Po by Eric Margolis
Special for the Huffington Post
By Eric Margolis
October 15, 2008
Afghanistan is in a `downward spiral,’ the Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen, admitted last week, giving the most negative view of that conflict heard in Washington.
Military men are programmed to always be optimistic, so Admiral Mullen’s [...]

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) — The Pentagon denied news reports Tuesday that a U.S. military aircraft was forced to land in Iran after violating Iran’s airspace.
Pentagon Bryan Whitman said he hasn’t “heard anything like that.”
“All aircraft in the region are accounted for and we have no reports of any aircraft landing in Iran,” said [...]

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Elaine Sciolino
October 5, 2008
A CODED French diplomatic cable leaked to a newspaper quotes the British ambassador in Afghanistan as predicting that the NATO-led military campaign against the Taliban would fail.

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Colonel Tells Senate Panel How U.S. Training Program Was Adapted for Use Against Iraqi Detainees
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 26, 2008; A17
The techniques themselves — forced nudity, sleep deprivation, painful shackling — had been used for years to prepare U.S. fighter pilots for possible capture by an enemy. But Col. Steven Kleinman, an [...]