American Republican-style Conservative Alberta-centric Redneck Stephen Harper's illegal and unwinnable war is looking increasingly hopeless as Afghanistan is rapidly turning into ground zero for the Global Jihadist movement. Do you really believe that Canadians prepared to pay the mounting costs in both blood and treasure to fend off Afghan suicide bombers for perhaps decades to come, Mr Harper?. What honestly makes you think Canada will succeed where the Soviets and British failed in Afghanistan?
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Associated Press
A fresh influx of jihadi fighters is being drawn to Afghanistan from
Turkey, Central Asia, Chechnya and the Middle East, one more sign that
al Qaeda is regrouping on what is fast becoming the most active front
of the war on terror groups.
More foreigners are infiltrating Afghanistan because of a recruitment
drive by al Qaeda, as well as a burgeoning insurgency that has made
movement easier across the border from Pakistan, U.S. officials,
militants and experts say. For the past two months, Afghanistan has
overtaken Iraq in deaths of U.S. and allied troops, and nine American
soldiers were killed Sunday at a remote base in Kunar province in the
deadliest attack in years.
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned during
a visit to Kabul this month about an increase in foreign fighters
crossing into Afghanistan from Pakistan, where a new government is
trying to negotiate with militants.
Two U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the
sensitivity of the information, told the Associated Press that the
U.S. is closely monitoring the flow of foreign fighters into
Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Meanwhile, the Defense Department announced in Washington that it will
send close to 800 more bomb-resistant vehicles to Afghanistan, where a
resurgent Taliban has military leaders developing plans to add
thousands of U.S. troop reinforcements.
The hulking vehicles, known as MRAPs, protect U.S. personnel from the
powerful blasts of roadside bombs, the No. 1 cause of combat deaths
and injuries.
Yesterday in Iraq, where things are becoming more secure, Kuwait named
its first ambassador to Iraq since the 1991 Gulf War, a major step
toward healing the two countries' painful past.
The announcement came as the Sunni leader of Lebanon's parliamentary
majority met with Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki - also
reflecting Iraq's efforts to reconcile with aloof Arab neighbors and
tamp down sectarian tension across the region.
Kuwait closed its embassy in Iraq in 1990, after Saddam Hussein
invaded his tiny, oil-rich neighbor.
The attack spurred the 1991 U.S.-led invasion to oust Saddam's forces.
The two neighbors had no relations until more than a dozen years
later, when another American invasion toppled Saddam. They resumed
ties after 2003, and an Iraqi Embassy reopened in Kuwait.
Kuwait had held back from reopening its embassy in Baghdad, however,
citing security concerns. Diplomats from Bahrain, Turkey, the United
Arab Emirates and other Arab countries have all been either killed,
wounded or kidnapped in Iraq since 2003. *
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