Is Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, about to get fired? Should he be? As everyone now knows, freelance (and former Newsweek) reporter Michael Hastings has an article in the latest issue of Rolling Stone, quoting McChrystal and his staff officers talking dirt about their civilian superiors from President Barack Obama on down. One aide calls Gen. Jim Jones, Obama’s n
President Obama said his top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, had used “poor judgment” in an article that appeared in Rolling Stone. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times This article is by Helene Cooper, Thom Shanker and Dexter Filkins. WASHINGTON — President Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan flew to Washington on Tuesday to find out whether he would be fired for remarks
MOSCOW � To the surprise of human rights activists, Russian delegates to the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly on Tuesday approved a sharply critical draft resolution on Russia’s policy in the North Caucasus, which says “human rights violations and the climate of complete impunity were bound to foster the rise of extremist movements.” This is hardly the first time that the Strasbourg, Fra
The elusive founder of WikiLeaks, who is at the centre of a potential US national security sensation, has surfaced from almost a month in hiding to tell the Guardian he does not fear for his safety but is on permanent alert. Julian Assange, a renowned Australian hacker who founded the electronic whistleblowers' platform WikiLeaks, vanished when a young US intelligence analyst in Baghdad was arrest
Israel's defence minister, Ehud Barak, has attacked the timing of plans to raze Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem as prejudicial to hopes for continuing peace talks, echoing a row over housing that caused an unprecedented crisis between Israel and the US earlier this year. Barak, visiting Washington, highlighted the ever-sensitive issue of Jerusalem by suggesting that the go-ahead for the contro
Kurdish rebels exploded a remote-controlled bomb next to a bus carrying military personnel and their families on the outskirts of Istanbul this morning, killing five and wounding 12. Three of the dead were soldiers while the fourth was the 17-year-old daughter of an officer. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) claimed responsibility for the attack, the second on security forces in Istanbul in the pa
KABUL, Afghanistan — American taxpayers have inadvertently created a network of warlords across Afghanistan who are making millions of dollars escorting NATO convoys and operating outside the control of either the Afghan government or the American and NATO militaries, according to the results of a Congressional investigation released Monday. The investigation, begun last year by the House Subcommi
President Obama said his top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, had used “poor judgment” in an article that appeared in Rolling Stone. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times This article is by Helene Cooper, Thom Shanker and Dexter Filkins. WASHINGTON — President Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan flew to Washington on Tuesday to find out whether he would be fired for remarks
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