Afghanistan

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• Obama: Drone strikes effective, legal; but not perfect

  will largely remain highly secret for the public. Congress is already briefed on every strike that U.S. drones take outside Afghanistan and Iraq during the war there, Obama said, but those briefings are largely classified and held privately.The president said 3:03 PM Read more »

• Ceremony planned for fallen Conn. soldier

  28-year-old Special Forces commander was killed in March when an Afghan policeman opened fire inside a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan.A ceremony, led by Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman, is scheduled to take place in the Legislative Office Building atrium,   Read more »

• Hosseini discusses new novel at NYC reading

  going to happen" in Kabul. He would call the boy Abdullah, and the girl Pari. He would, once again, draw upon old memories of Afghanistan, a country he left as a child.Hosseini considers the book his most ambitious, with a complex narrative and stops in Paris,   Read more »

• LI home to a dozen U.S. Army generals

  school district.The three Smithtown generals each hold positions that are critical to Obama 's intentions to end U.S. combat in Afghanistan and to downsize the U .S. military. Tovo commands the Combined Security Transition Command and NATO Training Mission   Read more »

• Afghan lawmakers block law on women's rights

  Violators were publicly flogged or executed.Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001, women's freedoms have improved vastly, but Afghanistan remains a deeply conservative culture, especially in rural areas.Saturday's failure of the legislation in parliament reflected   Read more »

Around the web

• In Afghanistan, businesswomen must seek a delicate balance

  interviews to Afghan television, radio or newspapers. She maintains three offices: one in her home city of Herat in western Afghanistan, another in New York City and a third in a small, two-story building in Kabul tucked away in a maze of rutted dirt lanes 8 m ago from Los Angeles Times Read more »

• For India, worries of another 1989 moment in the region

  to force India to settle Kashmir on Pakistan's terms." Mr. Sareen adds that if the situation with militants in Pakistan and Afghanistan falls out of the hands of the Pakistani military establishment, it may be worse for India. "Who do you hold responsible 10 m ago from Christian Science Monitor Read more »

• Obama Rejects Perpetual War, But Questions Remain About Targeted Killings

  of the worldwide “war on terror.” Pointing out that the AUMF is almost twelve years old and that US involvement in the war in Afghanistan will be coming to an end in 2014, Obama noted that “core al Qaeda is a shell of its former self” and that “not every collection 21 m ago from The Nation Read more »

• How Obama Criticizedand DefendedHis Own Drone War

  drone campaign has become a defining part of his foreign policy. As the president coordinated the troop drawdowns in Iraq and Afghanistan, he was simultaneously escalating this shadow war. The killings intensified as he struggled to keep pressure on militants. 27 m ago from Popular Mechanics Read more »

• Thursday Links Part 2

  Giulio Meotti has much to recommend it, a fact reflected by the irritation it is causing to Christian Israel-haters ... Afghanistan Comes to London - After telling the story of Mohammed’s boast that he would make the mountain come to him, only to be forced 31 m ago from Elder of Ziyon Read more »