Tag Archives: Nato
Nato ready to risk swifter Afghan handover
A classified document seen by The Sunday Times shows planners are mulling the idea of completing the planned transfer of power in 2013 The Sunday Times Nato has drawn up plans to accelerate the passing of security to Afghan soldiers and police before it withdraws from the country. It currently plans to hand over all […]
Karzai death plot aimed to ignite ethnic war
The Sunday Times SITTING on the floor of a house on the outskirts of Kabul, the Haqqani network commander sipped green tea as he calmly explained the chaos his organisation set out to cause with an elaborate plot to blow up Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace. The operation would have begun with an explosion […]
Gadaffi and sons flee like rats up a water pipe
The ousted Libyan dictator Muammar Gadaffi and his sons may have evaded capture by fleeing through waterpipes large enough to hide military vehicles, rebel commanders believe. The pipes of the Great Manmade River project, designed to supply Libyan coastal cities with water from a huge natural reservoir beneath the desert, are up to 13ft in […]
Rise of the Taliban’s kneecap commanders
The Sunday Times The young Taliban commander with a penchant for severing spies’ heads with strands of thin wire dragged 28 of his foot soldiers from a makeshift jail and lined them up against a mud wall at his base. Pacing along the row of handcuffed men, the fresh-faced 21-year-old — surrounded by bodyguards — […]
Casualties soar as US steps up airstrikes
The Sunday Times The two Afghan farmers were gathering alfalfa in their fields when a convoy of heavily armoured American vehicles rolled through the outskirts of their hamlet. Suddenly Taliban gunmen unleashed a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades and mortars at the American soldiers. As the insurgents fled, attack helicopters and fighter jets roared overhead. Sensing […]
Miles Amoore 