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US troops told there are only one hundred al-Qaeda in Afghanistan
Afghanistan News.Net Thursday 3rd December, 2009
Intelligence officials in the US have been angered by suggestions that President Obama is sending 30,000 more troops to fight only one hundred al-Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan.
Responding to an ABC News story that mentioned to the intelligence community estimate on the number of Al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan, US intelligence officials described the story as an irresponsible assessment.
The officials have argued that even though the al-Qaeda numbers are small, their influence with the Taliban makes them far more harmful than their numbers would indicate.
They said while only about one hundred al-Qaeda operatives remain in Afghanistan, their real centre is Pakistan, where their leadership works tightly with leaders of the Afghan Taliban.
The assessment has been referred to in the US as "Obama’s secret," with some media pundits saying the president deliberately omitted mentioning the numbers in his speech on Tuesday night.
Top officials on Wednesday defended Obama’s surge decision, arguing that the US military needs to take on the Taliban as a way to keep Afghanistan from falling under al-Qaeda influence. Email this story to a friend
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jack 12-03-09, 02:44 AM |
30,000 troops sent to find one hundred al-Qaeda
I like the idea fo us finding all or most of the terriosts but does it take that many soldiers in a country that may not even have that many people living there. What is the population of Afghanistan? I just hope our soldiers do the job and come back soon after that.
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Nickhead 12-03-09, 03:27 AM |
Get Paid
The whole idea is !!! You cannot get paid by doing nothing.
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PinkPatriot 12-03-09, 03:40 AM |
1000 to 1
It takes 100,000 US troops to defeat 100 muslim terrorists? Man, our troops must really suck.
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PinkPatriot 12-03-09, 03:43 AM |
1000 to 1
It takes 100,000 US troops to defeat 100 muslim terrorists? Man, our troops must really suck.
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Anonymous 12-03-09, 03:49 AM |
I bet the Africa Korps could have done a better job!
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hhhh hasan 12-03-09, 05:45 AM |
Afghans muslims are fighting to free their lands, US invaders are real terrorists
force Afghans to accept that corrupt democracy? will be doomed to failure...
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Anonymous 12-03-09, 07:24 AM |
That’s it!
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chink_chopper 12-03-09, 10:27 AM |
America gone stupid
c’mon America!!!!!
wake up.
islam and democracy don’t mix just like oil and water, use your mini nukes.
its the islam, the root cause of problem not the terrorists. you can take on 100 terrorist while leaving behind billion plus.
please note, the chinx want you to bleed to death like this so get them as well.
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kawahchan 12-03-09, 11:13 AM |
Just another Obama's ruse to play ...
(R) 2012 DAN QUAYLE Presidential Foreign Policy & Affairs / CIA reform: Silly! as long as ABC’s George Stephanopouios has his microphone, Obama can play his ruse in White House everyday to show his Obama’s fans of ages 19-30 and housewives, guarantee every evening news will have a new special Obama’s gimmick to watch ! Fakery wants to send 30,000 troops to find one hundred al-Qaeda within a “18-month timeline” is just another Obama’s new ruse to show a black man can “also” play like another ex- US President Lyndon B. Johnson too! That’s the fact of Obama-McChrystal’s fantasy of vanity, they have been waiting for that moment for a long time; but not quite copycat. The 2013 US President DAN QUAYLE’s White House just WON’T play another ex- US President Gerald R. Ford again; we WON’T continue to fight Obama’s self-interested Afghanistan War again; those Pentagon’s hot-shots who’ve been attended Obama’s round-table meeting will be FIRED by the 2013 US President DAN QUAYLE’s White House before to reform a new leaderships to a better “winnable” Pentagon. The 2013 US President DAN QUAYLE’s CIA will reform into 2-level of low-level department to specialize the foreign aids and foreign affairs, also will administer the ex- US President John F. Kennedy founded Peace Corps. (Dan will renew Peace Corps again), the 2013 CIA’s high-level department will specialize nuclear warfare, terrorism warfare and undercover, all kinds of mission impossible strategy to defend the United States of America.
* (R) 2010 CARLETON S. FIORINA (Carly) for 2010 US Senator of California.
* REPUBLICAN PARTY welcomes our homecoming US Ambassador KRISTIE KENNEY to the Philippines back to the States. GOOD JOB! KENNEY.
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redraven 12-03-09, 11:03 AM |
America ----- Afghanistan
Each place it own problems. We as American need to take of home. Our troops are tired and are need at home with their families. They are still fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, and spouses.
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Anonymous 12-03-09, 01:00 PM |
send more troops,get the job done and forget it.Don’t play the balanced power game with them.Let the muslims cry out when we do what we can.
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Sammy 12-03-09, 03:02 PM |
Nothing has changed
Yes, nothing has changed, because the old bush policies are still in force, only the actors changed, but the story is still the same.
All of this money that is being spent for these useless wars, could have been put to good use to help humanity, rather than to destroy it.
Create, jobs, eradicate famine, free healthcare for all the people on this globe, legalize drugs, so that it would take the profits that finances criminal organizations.
At the present many governments are working destructively for mankind, by istigating the rise of terrorism through their reckless foreign policies, manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, for the sake of monetary gains for the few, while the many suffer the consequences of wars, and destruction to promote their polòitical idiologies.
Sammy
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Pontotoc Bill 12-03-09, 03:23 PM |
Sammy;171885: Yes, nothing has changed, because the old bush policies are still in force, only the actors changed, but the story is still the same.
All of this money that is being spent for these useless wars, could have been put to good use to help humanity, rather than to destroy it.
Create, jobs, eradicate famine, free healthcare for all the people on this globe, legalize drugs, so that it would take the profits that finances criminal organizations.
At the present many governments are working destructively for mankind, by istigating the rise of terrorism through their reckless foreign policies, manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, for the sake of monetary gains for the few, while the many suffer the consequences of wars, and destruction to promote their polòitical idiologies.
Sammy
So, you admit there are “governments are working destructively for mankind, by istigating the rise of terrorism through their reckless foreign policies, manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, for the sake of monetary gains for the few, while the many suffer the consequences of wars, and destruction to promote their polòitical idiologies."
How do you propose the US defend itself from those governments? How do we defend this nation from terrorists using WMDs?
You comment is not logical with your previous posts.
Remember, the best defense is having the best offense.
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:P 12-03-09, 04:29 PM |
wmms
o wow
:3
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hhhh hasan 12-03-09, 04:34 PM |
18 months to get the job done?
he he, it’s been 9 years of occupation but the situation is deteriorating and the Talibans have the momentum and the occupiers' troops morale are sliding.... Obama, Clinton, Gates and other hawks are dreaming
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Pontotoc Bill 12-03-09, 06:20 PM |
hhhh hasan;171898: he he, it’s been 9 years of occupation but the situation is deteriorating and the Talibans have the momentum and the occupiers' troops morale are sliding.... Obama, Clinton, Gates and other hawks are dreaming
Actually, it is more like you and the Taliban are dreaming.
Death to Islamofascist terrorists!
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Afpakwar 12-04-09, 05:00 AM |
Al Qaeda is the WMD of Afghanistan
Iraq was invaded to take out Saddam’s non-existent WMDs; now Afghanistan, to d-3 Al-Qaeda! See:
http://afpakwar.com/blog/2009/11/09/how-many-americans-does-it-take-to-%e2%80%9cdisrupt-dismantle-and-defeat%e2%80%9d-100-1000-al-qaeda-members-in-afpakistan/
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{CA}Gen{Lead} 12-04-09, 07:28 AM |
The United States will win!
This is our moment where we will win another war for a just cause like in world war 2. Osama Bin Laden can’t hide forever nor Mullar Omar. We will find them and we will win this war!
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` ~galljdaj+ 12-04-09, 08:25 AM |
What does it take to believe...
...'the best defense is having the best offense'?
What other beliefs must be in place prior to accepting the 'slogan' for offense?
Does the slogan have a purpose for all the peoples? Or does the slogan serve the purposes of the few over the Whole?
Does the slogan tell the whole story? Obviously not, slogans are for the lazy, trainees, those intended to be robots for the few priviledged.
When everyone has a good life and all the good(s) are common goods, is there civil discord? robbery ? Or does such crime and rancor deminish?
When the rich get richer and the poor gets poorer, because the few say I’am taking Jobs to a foreign country because of 'overnment regulations', when yesterday they took jobs away because of more money went into their pockets via lower wages, is it just a GOOD OFFENSE? It certainly is an Offense! Its also offensive!
Answering my own question, It takes not knowing the Truths about the Realities of the Topic to believe based on a slogan! And to say slogans takes a whole set of other traits, which are against sharing anything! Except the cost!
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Pontotoc Bill 12-04-09, 02:47 PM |
` ~galljdaj+;171990: ...'the best defense is having the best offense'?
What other beliefs must be in place prior to accepting the 'slogan' for offense?
Does the slogan have a purpose for all the peoples? Or does the slogan serve the purposes of the few over the Whole?
Does the slogan tell the whole story? Obviously not, slogans are for the lazy, trainees, those intended to be robots for the few priviledged.
When everyone has a good life and all the good(s) are common goods, is there civil discord? robbery ? Or does such crime and rancor deminish?
When the rich get richer and the poor gets poorer, because the few say I’am taking Jobs to a foreign country because of 'overnment regulations', when yesterday they took jobs away because of more money went into their pockets via lower wages, is it just a GOOD OFFENSE? It certainly is an Offense! Its also offensive!
Answering my own question, It takes not knowing the Truths about the Realities of the Topic to believe based on a slogan! And to say slogans takes a whole set of other traits, which are against sharing anything! Except the cost!
And what the hell are you trying to say here, colon monkey?
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` ~galljdaj+ 12-05-09, 02:47 PM |
Our lil midget mental expert cleared up one question!
The question being is he slogan believer? or is he a slogan maker?
Since he can’t figure out what has been posted, its clear he is a messianic believer of slogans! It he true line of 'fabled'!
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Pontotoc Bill 12-07-09, 06:19 PM |
` ~galljdaj+;172199: The question being is he slogan believer? or is he a slogan maker?
Since he can’t figure out what has been posted, its clear he is a messianic believer of slogans! It he true line of 'fabled'!
Another example of girlyjihad taking off on a tangent without answering the question.
Typical liberal debate technique.
Try again, mentally ill one.
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