PUBLIC MARKS with tag Afghanistan

The vast scale of Afghanistan’s mineral wealth was discovered by a small team of Pentagon officials and American geologists. The Afghan government and President Hamid Karzai were recently briefed, American officials said.

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"President Obama is more concerned at “whether there’s an Afghan partner” worth defending, than with the politically fraught question of how many more troops to send, said Rahm Emanuel, Mr Obama’s chief of staff and a central figure in White House deliberations on Afghanistan."

Rising bloodshed is threatening the security of Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the first of two articles, we look at America’s military options in Afghanistan

The timing of Barack Obama’s much-awaited decision on how many new troops to send to Afghanistan has been thrown into further doubt amid mounting global speculation that Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, may face a second round election run-off.

Frantic diplomacy under way as report looks set to give Afghan president less than 50% of the vote, forcing run-off

BEYOND THE CALL follows Antic and his compadres as he travels the third world bringing medicine, money , and educational tools to the poor in lands as diverse as Afghanistan or the Phillipines.

Sara Daniel (grand reporter au Nouvel Observateur, auteur de “Voyage au pays d’Al-Qaïda”) nous parlera de ses reportages et notamment de son récent voyage au Darfour. Présentation de Tatiana Salomon Modération assurée par Natacha Salomon (Quester-Séméon) et Tristao Mokusei (Mendès France).

Its been roughly 5 years and 3 months since David Hicks was captured by the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan and with charges only recently being laid for attempted murder and for providing material support for terrorism, how much longer does David Hicks have to wait before he has his day in court?

Die Geschichte einer indogermanischen Wanderung in Asien

A l'occasion de la sortie de L'Etoile du soldat, le film de fiction de Christophe de Ponfilly, notre site est submergé de visites le concernant. topolivres avait des liens forts d'amitié avec Christophe, et nous avions évoqué avec douleur sa disparition au moment où elle est intervenue, à l'orée du Festival de Cannes 2006. Les Editions des Arènes, par l'intermédiaire de Laurent Maréchaux, avaient alors demandé un texte aux proches de Christophe, dont j'étais, à destination de ses enfants, et bien sûr aussi de ses lecteurs et de ses spectateurs. Il semble que cette parution ne soit plus à l'ordre du jour pour des raisons que je ne connais pas. C'est la raison pour laquelle je choisis de diffuser aujourd'hui ce texte non retouché sur internet. A défaut du livre qui ne verra manifestement pas le jour, je souhaite que le site de topolivres devienne, au-delà de ses prérogatives habituelles, un forum de discussion et d'échanges autour de Christophe, pour tous ceux qui le souhaitent : cet espace est le vôtre. Isabelle Rabineau http://blog.topolivres.com/blogtopolivres/223/

Life in a ruined refuge - A photo essay by Daniel Morin, CBC News

I don’t think people are getting the seriousness of this. " In a move that some say appears ‘a total capitulation’ to pro-Taliban forces, Pakistan signed a peace deal with tribal leaders in the North Waziristan region of Pakistan Tuesday, and is withdrawing military forces in exchange for promises that militant tribal groups there will not engage in terrorist activities."