RUSSIAN BUSINESS DEALS IN AFGHANISTAN
"... Russia has already begun a broad push into Afghan deal-making, negotiating to refurbish more than 140 Soviet-era installations, like hydroelectric stations, bridges, wells and irrigation systems, in deals that could be worth more than $1 billion. A Russian helicopter company, Vertikal-T, has contracts with NATO and the Afghan government to fly Mi-26 heavy-lift helicopters throughout the country..."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/19/world/europe/19russia.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fworld%2Fasia%2Findex.jsonp
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
KARZAI BANS PRIVATE SECURITY FIRMS
"Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has given private security firms working in Afghanistan four months to end their operations... saying they undermine government security forces... more than 50 private security companies, roughly half of them Afghan and the other half international, employ 30,000 to 40,000 armed personnel in Afghanistan... the conduct of private security personnel had caused "a lot of uproar among the Afghan population".
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/08/2010816104813959499.html
"Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has given private security firms working in Afghanistan four months to end their operations... saying they undermine government security forces... more than 50 private security companies, roughly half of them Afghan and the other half international, employ 30,000 to 40,000 armed personnel in Afghanistan... the conduct of private security personnel had caused "a lot of uproar among the Afghan population".
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/08/2010816104813959499.html
Monday, August 9, 2010
U.S. SUPERSIZES BAGRAM BASE BEFORE WITHDRAWAL
"BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Anyone who thinks the United States is really going to withdraw from Afghanistan in July 2011 needs to come to this giant air base an hour away from Kabul. There’s construction everywhere. It’s exactly what you wouldn’t expect from a transient presence.... But two years ago there were about 18,000 troops and contractors living here. Now that figure is north of 30,000, all for a logistics hub and command post that the United States didn’t ever imagine possessing before 9/11.
In 2011, the U.S. military probably won’t be thinking about turning over the keys to a new, huge base. It’ll be thinking about how it can finish up the construction contracts it signed months ago -– if not some it’s yet to ink."
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/08/u-s-afghan-mega-base/
"BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Anyone who thinks the United States is really going to withdraw from Afghanistan in July 2011 needs to come to this giant air base an hour away from Kabul. There’s construction everywhere. It’s exactly what you wouldn’t expect from a transient presence.... But two years ago there were about 18,000 troops and contractors living here. Now that figure is north of 30,000, all for a logistics hub and command post that the United States didn’t ever imagine possessing before 9/11.
In 2011, the U.S. military probably won’t be thinking about turning over the keys to a new, huge base. It’ll be thinking about how it can finish up the construction contracts it signed months ago -– if not some it’s yet to ink."
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/08/u-s-afghan-mega-base/
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
PAKISTAN SAYS NATO LOSING WAR IN AFGHANISTAN
"Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday the international community was losing the war against the Afghan Taliban... Zardari gave a stark assessment of the nine-year Afghanistan war, and said the West was to blame for failing to win the support of ordinary Afghans..."
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6721R820100803
"Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari said on Tuesday the international community was losing the war against the Afghan Taliban... Zardari gave a stark assessment of the nine-year Afghanistan war, and said the West was to blame for failing to win the support of ordinary Afghans..."
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6721R820100803
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