Thursday, January 20, 2011

Afghanistan War News Updates -- January 20, 2011

GENERAL'S GREETING - U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan, and Ashraf Naseri, governor of Zabul province, exchange greetings on Forward Operating Base Lagman, Afghanistan, Jan. 17, 2011. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Petty Officer Joshua Treadwell

Karzai Postpones Seating Parliament, Deepening Afghan Crisis -- New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai ordered a month’s delay in seating a new Parliament on Wednesday, heightening a constitutional crisis that threatens to fuel bitter infighting and potentially even violence among the country’s rival factions.

The move leaves Afghanistan without a Parliament five months after its September election, with the prospect of even further delays. It also puts Mr. Karzai squarely at odds with his international backers, who insist that the elections were valid after investing heavily in them as a way to promote Afghanistan’s fledgling democracy.

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More News On Afghanistan

Karzai postpones seating of the new Afghan parliament -- Washington Post
Legislators Vow to Open Afghan Parliament -- New York Times
Parliament delay threatens Afghan 'crisis' -- AFP
Afghan Parliament Opening Delayed -- Wall Street Journal
Karzai delays parliament to allow more fraud probes -- Reuters
Afghanistan Delays Parliament Opening By A Month -- Radio Free Europe
Afghan Parliament opening delayed -- UPI

Foreign soldier, 23 suspected militants killed in Afghan attacks -- M&C
2 NATO Service Members Killed in Afghan Attacks -- New York Times/AP
NATO and Afghan forces kill 10 insurgents in north -- Yahoo News/AP
FACTBOX-Security developments in Afghanistan, Jan 19 -- Alertnet
Afghanistan blast claims 20 lives -- One India News
Bomb blast kills 20 Afghan civilians in southeast -- Reuters
Roadside bomb kills 13 Afghan children, 7 others -- L.A. Times
115 Afghan Taliban fighters give up militancy in 9 days -- Xinhuanet
Afghans launched SAS-style stealth attack -- Mirror.co.uk
Refugees deny claim of progress in rebel heartland -- Irish Times
Afghan official sees big hurdles to capable army -- Reuters
Canadian Forces seek new staging base for Afghanistan -- Globe And Mail

German radical reported killed in Afghanistan -- AP
Senior German al Qaeda leader killed in Afghanistan -- Long War Journal
Al-Qaida Fighter from Bonn Believed Dead -- Spiegel Online

Taliban, ISI, deny Mullah Omar heart attack report
-- AFP
Taliban rejects report of leader's hospitalization -- Washington Post/AP
Pakistan Army, Afghan Taliban reject report about Mullah Omar's surgery in Karachi -- Sify News
Pakistan army rejects Mullah Omar's treatment report -- Xinhuanet
Report about Omar’s surgery in Karachi denied -- DAWN

Afghanistan: Something To Die For -- Strategy Page
Taking on the Taliban -- Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times
Karzai worried about electoral fraud... really? -- Dan Murphy, Christian Science Monitor
Afghan Wreckage -- Amy Davidson, New Yorker

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