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... miles away. I spent time out on the ground during May and June working with coalition units, tribal leaders and fighters engaged in the ... Punjabis are the foreigners here: al Qa'ida have been here 25 years and have married into the Pashtun hill-tribes to the point where it's ...

Blog entry - Aug 29 2007 - 1:52am - 29 comments - 0 attachments

... anything new was being tried other than to send another 25,000 troops into what had become a hopeless situation. In fact, the surge ... less than 115, and for 41 consecutive days, from May 4 to June 14, the 31-day moving sum was over 100. One way to put that number into ...

Blog entry - Dec 25 2007 - 4:13am - 3 comments - 0 attachments

... leader getting ready to assault the Colleville draw on 6 June 1944. Also Sean, your above post seems to assume that present and ... is also very generous in providing Afghan farmers with 25 kilogram bags of fertiliser, which have become the Taliban's preferred ...

Journal Article - Dec 22 2009 - 12:18pm - 38 comments