UN Guest House Attacked in Kabul

Informed Comment by Juan Cole | Oct. 28, 2009 (News Analysis)
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(Blog Post) Afghanistan continues to generate bad news at an alarming rate. Gunmen stormed a UN guest house in Kabul, deploying small arms fire and killing 3 UN staff members along with 4 other persons . A Taliban spokesman said his group was behind the attack and that it was aimed at disrupting the Nov. 7 presidential runoff election. At the same time, a rocket slammed into a five star hotel in Kabul. Heavy gunfire reverberated through the streets shortly after dawn ... Full Story »

Posted by Derek Hawkins - via NewsRack (Afghanistan), Informed Comment

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Topics: War, Afghanistan, Presidential Election 2008
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Posted by: Posted by Derek Hawkins - Oct 28, 2009 - 12:20 AM PDT
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Edited by: Derek Hawkins - Oct 28, 2009 - 11:09 AM PDT
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 by Derek Hawkins - Oct. 28, 2009

Cole ties together several recent news items on Afghanistan and asks relevant questions about their relation. Short but effective; somewhat light on analysis.

What I still don’t hear is what the objective of the war is, and how it will be accomplished in some reasonable time frame. If the objective is that Pashtun tribesmen ... More »

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    New York Times by Dexter Filkins, Mark Mazzetti, James Risen | Oct. 28, 2009 (News Report)
    Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of President Hamid Karzai and a suspected player in the opium trade, has gotten payments from the C.I.A. for eight years, officials said.
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