Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Afghanistan War News Updates -- November 23, 2010



Negotiator For Taliban Was An Impostor, Afghan Officials Say -- Washington Post

KABUL - A man purporting to be one of the Taliban's most senior commanders convinced both Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the NATO officials who flew him to Afghanistan's capital for meetings, but two senior Afghan officials now believe the man was a lowly shopkeeper from the Pakistani city of Quetta.

His daring ruse has flummoxed those attempting to start a peace process with a determined Taliban adversary.

"He was a very clever man," one of the officials said.

Read more ....

More News On Afghanistan

Secret peace talks in Afghanistan collapse after 'Taliban' negotiator is exposed as a fraud -- The Daily Mail
Man involved in Afghan talks said to be impostor -- Yahoo News/AP
Afghan Impostor: U.S. Officials Confirm Talks with Phony Taliban Leader -- ABC News
Self-Described Taliban Leader Could Have Been Anyone, Really -- Vanity Fair
Karzai Denies Talks With Alleged Taliban Impostor -- NPR
Faking It: Taliban Negotiator Was A Phony -- Time Magazine
Taliban Leader in Secret Talks Was an Impostor -- New York Times
Afghan Talks Featured an Impostor -- Wall Street Journal

25 Taliban Killed As Afghan Bomb Factory Is Blitzed -- The Sun
Afghan Fighting Kills More Than 30 Insurgents -- New York Times/AP

‘Professor of War’ Petraeus Rolls Into Town, Armed With PowerPoint
-- France24
Pakistan sees need for crackdown in tribal belt: Petraeus -- AFP
Pakistan hits back at American support for India by stopping al-Qaeda offensive -- The Telegraph
Petraeus: NATO to squeeze the life out of Taliban -- Washington Post/AP

Sending Tanks to Afghanistan
-- At War/New York Times
Training Pays Dividends for 101st Soldiers in Afghanistan -- U.S. Department of Defense
Face of Defense: Female Advisor Heads to Afghanistan -- U.S. Department of Defense
Army reviews leadership in Afghan civilian deaths -- Stars And Stripes/AP

Afghan president still against NATO night raids -- Yahoo News/AP
Karzai Says Afghan Army Woes Bring NATO Raids, Civilian Deaths -- Bloomberg
NATO to keep limited presence in Afghanistan after 2014: President Karzai -- Xinhuanet

Afghan body says final poll result out on Wednesday -- Reuters
Afghanistan poised to announce election results -- AFP
Afghan Election Results Due Out Wednesday -- Voice of America
Afghan election officials suspended -- BBC

Children Safe in Kabul, Says NATO Ambassador; Aid Groups Disagree -- Voice of America
Nato official clarifies Kabul child safety comment -- BBC

Holding Terrain in Afghanistan: Pakistan’s Games of Duplicity Part III -- Captain's Journal
Afghanistan's disheartened -- Washington Post
Could Democrats give Obama trouble in 2012? War in Afghanistan is key. -- Christian Science Monitor
U.S. Out of Afghanistan by 2014? Don't Hold Your Breath -- Hannah Gurman, Foreign policy In focus
Winding up a war without calling it defeat -- The Australian editorial

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