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Town Meeting: Alan Khazei on Afghanistan troops

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:44:51 -0500

(NECN) ? Alan Khazei joined NECN for a Town Meeting of the Air, a chance for viewers to ask questions of the Senate candidates. 48-year-old Alan Khazei is described as a social entrepreneur. He’s the co-founder of City Year. The founde...

Bush, Clinton Debate

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:43:29 -0400

Former U.S. presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton drew a standing ovation from a packed Toronto convention centre Friday after their mostly amiable discussion touching on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, AIDS programs in Africa and border security at home.

At one point during the event, which was billed by organizers as a "moderated conversation," both Clinton and Bush admitted they were surprised to learn Canadians and Americans will require a passport or an enhanced driver’s licence to cross into the United States as of Monday.

Clinton, the first to take to the stage at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, joked in his opening speech that the event felt like a "21st-century coliseum," and the audience might want to see him and his Republican counterpart "devour each other." He said he and Bush would do their best to "thwart" such a spectacle.

Bush also struck a congenial note when he took the stage, giving Clinton top billing as he told the audience: "Welcome to the Bill and George Show."

He joked that his mother, Barbara Bush, told him Clinton has been spending so much time with his own father, former U.S. president George H.W. Bush, that he is "like a son to her."

"So brother, it's good to see you," Bush said, just over four months after he left office at the end of one of the most turbulent periods in modern American history.

Bush, making his second public appearance in Canada since leaving office in January, said he doesn't "miss the spotlight," and he spoke of adapting to post-presidential life in Texas.

He said he hopes to complete a book about the decisions he made while in office for publication by next November, and intends to establish a policy centre in his native Texas to push "the freedom agenda" he adhered to while in office.

"Freedom is transformative," he said. "Freedom brings hope and freedom brings peace."

Clinton praised Bush for increasin...

Taliban Flee U.S. Forces

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:54:51 -0400

Most Taliban militants encountered by U.S. troops on the first day of a massive new offensive retreated rather than engage in battle, military officials said Thursday.

Nearly 4,000 U.S. marines and 650 Afghan forces moved into southern Afghanistan early Thursday under the cover of darkness as part of an operation called Khanjar, which translates as "Strike of the Sword."

Transport helicopters carried marines into the village of Nawa, about 30 kilometres south of the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, in a region where no U.S. or other NATO troops have operated in large numbers.

There were reports of gunfire being exchanged, helicopters firing rockets and rocket-propelled grenades being launched from houses as the sun came up in the region.

But in the first day of the offensive U.S. troops did not suffer any serious injuries and resistance from militants was only sporadic, said unit spokesman Lt. Abe Sipe.

"The enemy has chosen to withdraw rather than engage for the most part," Sipe said.

Taken by surprise

The troops dropped behind Taliban lines took many insurgents by surprise, said Capt. Drew Schoenmaker.

"We are kind of forging new ground here. We are going to a place nobody has been before," said Schoenmaker, 31, who commands Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment.

The operation in the poppy-growing region of Helmand province is the first under U.S. President Barack Obama’s strategy to stabilize Afghanistan and is aimed at removing insurgents ahead of the country's Aug. 20 presidential election.

Pakistan moved troops along its Afghan border in an effort to stop militants from entering the country to escape a new U.S.-led offensive.

Pakistani Maj.-Gen. Athar Abbas said there has been visual confirmation that militants are fleeing into Pakistan but declined to provide further details.

'End game'

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U.S. AFGHANISTAN WAR : NEW MARINE MISSION

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:27:10 -0400

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