Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Afghanistan War News Updates -- September 11, 2012

A U.S. soldier organizes unstable ordnance for destruction at the demolition range on Forward Operating Base Salerno in Afghanistan's Khost province, Sept. 2, 2012. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Kimberly Trumbull

9/11 Anniversary: Taliban Claim US Face 'Utter Defeat' In Afghanistan -- The Telegraph

US forces face "utter defeat" in Afghanistan and Americans are unsafe wherever they go in the world, the Taliban said ahead of the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Eleven years ago on Tuesday, almost 3,000 people lost their lives in the worst terror strike on American soil that saw two passenger planes hijacked by al-Qaeda slam into New York's World Trade Center and another into the Pentagon. A fourth plane crashed in a Pennsylvania field.

What followed was a war in Afghanistan, launched over the Taliban's alliance with al-Qaeda.

Read more ....

More News On Afghanistan

ISAF Joint Command morning operational update, Sept. 11 -- ISAF
War in Afghanistan News - 11 SEP 2012 -- War On Terror News

Three dead in Bagram base attack -- BBC
3 Afghans killed, NATO chopper destroyed in attack on U.S.-run base -- L.A. Times
3 Afghans killed, NATO chopper destroyed in attack -- Bloomberg/AP
Ammunition fired at Bagram kills 3 Afghan troops, NATO says -- CNN
Taliban Claims Attack on Helicopter in Afghanistan -- New York Times
18 Afghan police defect to join insurgency, Taliban claims -- NBC
Previously rejected report is now key to US effort to curb insider killings in Afghanistan -- Stars and Stripes

US faces 'utter defeat' in Afghanistan: Taliban -- AFP
Taliban taunts US with defeat on 9/11 -- The International News

Some Taliban figures ready to negotiate peace deal: report -- Reuters
Taliban deny report that they are ready for peace talks -- Reuters
Taliban says 9/11 attacks were excuse for 'illegal' war -- L.A. Times
Afghan Taliban claims it 'had no hand in the 9/11 incident' -- Long War Journal

Afghan officials: US reneged on parts of deal to hand over Bagram prison -- Stars and Stripes/L.A. Times
US, Afghanistan locked in dispute over Taliban and terror suspects in prisons -- FOX News/AP
United States transfers Bagram prison to Afghan control -- Reuters

Afghanistan's base bonanza
-- Al Jazeera
Afghanistan overdoses on military bases -- Asia Times

Controversial British plan to ‘divide and rule’ Afghanistan -- RT
Controversial plan to split up Afghanistan -- The Independent
Tory adviser denies existence of blueprint to split Afghanistan into 'kingdoms' -- Daily Mail

Afghanistan After 9/11: A Mission Unaccomplished -- Ishaan Tharoor, Time
3,173 foreign troops killed in Afghanistan since 2001 -- Frontier Post

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