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Afghans Lend Hand To Anti-Taliban Efforts (USA Today)
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — Afghans who had been under the rule of the Taliban for years in Marjah are starting to offer help to U.S. and Afghan troops, pointing out the locations of buried roadside bombs as fighting continues in the town.
“Most of the people know where they are already,” said Lt. Col. Jeff Rule, [...]
TESTING THE OBAMA WAR STRATEGY: Marines Launch Offensive In Southern Afghanistan Town (L. A. TIMES)
The long-discussed operation against the Taliban in Marja is one of the biggest of the war. Along with targeting the insurgents’ grip on Helmand province, it’s a test of the Afghan army’s abilities.
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan, and The Outskirts Of Marja, Afghanistan — Thousands of U.S., British and Afghan troops moved to seize the Taliban [...]
HAITI UPDATE: Bill Clinton Says “Haiti Needs Cash, Trucks Urgently” (Yahoo!)
Former President Bill Clinton — his penchant for public speaking unbowed — called Thursday for more help for earthquake-ravaged Haiti, telling the World Economic Forum that the country is determined to escape its troubled past.
“This is an opportunity to reimagine the future for the Haitian people, to build what they want to become, not rebuild [...]
Mark Hyman, MD: Haiti Journal Day 8: The Tsunami Coming — Riding the Waves of Rescue, Rebuilding and Resurrection (Huffington Post)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Two photo slideshows appear in this post. The first one is not graphic. The second one includes extremely graphic depictions of surgery and wounds. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.
How can we measure the resiliency of the Haitian people who are the poorest in the western hemisphere with 55% living below the extreme poverty [...]
HAPPENING NOW 1/20: Strong New Earthquake Hits Haiti – 6.1, People Fleeing In Streets (Yahoo! News)
The most powerful aftershock yet struck Haiti on Wednesday, shaking more rubble from damaged buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets eight days after the country's capital was devastated by an apocalyptic quake.
The magnitude-6.1 temblor was the largest of more than 40 significant aftershocks that have followed the Jan. 12 quake. The extent [...]
UN Envoy Bill Clinton in Haiti, Meets Survivors In hospital (AFP)
UN special envoy Bill Clinton on Monday defended the pace of incoming foreign aid and praised doctors working in shocking conditions as he toured the devastation in Haiti’s capital.
“I’ll be surprised and disappointed if 48 hours from now we’re not feeding and bringing fresh water to dramatically larger amounts of people,” Clinton told reporters here.
The [...]
President Bill Clinton’s Haiti Update (Video/Time Magazine)
President Bill Clinton, U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti, tells TIME Managing Editor Richard Stengel about his long history as an advocate for Haiti, and how Tuesday’s earthquake will affect the troubled region
Bill Clinton: What Haiti Needs – Video – TIME.com.
Meet Mikey Hicks, He’s A Boy Scout, 8 Years Old And He’s On The Terror Watch List (New York Times)
The Transportation Security Administration, under scrutiny after last month’s bombing attempt, has on its Web site a “mythbuster” that tries to reassure the public.
Myth: The No-Fly list includes an 8-year-old boy.
Buster: No 8-year-old is on a T.S.A. watch list.
“Meet Mikey Hicks,” said Najlah Feanny Hicks, introducing her 8-year-old son, a New Jersey Cub Scout and [...]
STORY OF THE DAY: Help Haiti – Bill Clinton Asks For Your Support (Fox News Video)
President Bill Clinton, in an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren, said the next 10 days are the most critical for the rescue efforts in Haiti after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake rocked the country Tuesday.
For “three or four more days, we can still find people alive,” Clinton, the U.N. envoy to Haiti, said Wednesday. [...]
THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY OF THE DAY: Mr. Obama, The Next Jimmy Carter? (Foreign Policy)
Neither a cold-blooded realist nor a bleeding-heart idealist, Barack Obama has a split personality when it comes to foreign policy. So do most U.S. presidents, of course, and the ideas that inspire this one have a long history at the core of the American political tradition. In the past, such ideas have served the country [...]
