Afghan Washington Videos and Clips

Washington Redskins Cheerleaders Visit Afghanistan for X Bowl 2010
Video gamers and other coalition forces gathered for an evening of music, games and welcome guests. Petty Officer Dustin Diaz reports from Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan.

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Palin / Biden debate Afghanistan @ Washington University
Gov. Palin and Sen. Biden debate whether a surge strategy would also work in Afghanistan.

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afghan attan @ washington high school 08
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Taliban Threat in Afghanistan Seen Differently in Washington and Islamabad
A senior White House official says US President Barack Obama is asking his national security team to revise the options for US strategy in Afghanistan. The official says the president wants to know how and when US troops can hand over security responsibility to the government in Kabul. Administration officials say Mr. Obama wants to make clear to Afghan President Hamid Karzai that the US commitment in Afghanistan is not "open-ended." Some senior analysts in Washington say any strategy in Afghanistan must take into account the differences in the way the US and Pakistan perceive the threat. VOA's Ravi Khanna has more.

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Marines In Afghanistan - Interview With Female Marine from Monroe Washington While Deployed
Lcpl Francisco talks about day-to-day activities and life while deployed in Sangin, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Female Engagement Team (FET) work with Afghan women to breach the cultural divide. During 9.11 Lcpl Francisco was in 7th grade, now she lives and works in Sangin, Afghanistan. See more at: www.holidayinafghanistan.com

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Washington used depleted uranium in bombs used in Afghanistan
These Afghan babies were born with severe deformities. And Mohammad Daud Miraki, an Afghan-American doctor blames the US forces for these crimes. He says that the US used depleted uranium in Afghanistan. Press TV 's Fayez Khorshid reports from Kabul

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Afghan Warlords
June 2009 Despite shady pasts, powerful warlords are given recognition from Washington in return for their support fighting drug-traffickers and the Taliban. We take a look at Americas new pragmatic approach. One such character is Gul Agha Sherzai, aka The Bulldozer and Governor of Nangarhar for the last five years. After striking a political deal with President Karzai, he became a powerbroker to be reckoned with. Ruling from his Jalalabad palace, Sherzai shows off his power: The Taliban is no danger. I have defeated them. By Afghan standards, security in his region has drastically improved along with an impressive fall in drugs production. Its hard to argue that hes been anything but a success enthuse US counter-narcotics officials. However, his past is less than pristine. An expert on the region says: To be an effective leader there, at some point you had to have been involved in the commission of atrocities, together with the accumulation of enormous wealth and that means Opium.' Sherzai allegedly got wealthy during his time as governor of Kandahar taking a cut from the opium profits from the area. While his former associate has been serving a life-sentence in the US, hes been enjoying a high-profile collaboration with Washington. Why? Theres a perception among the West that hes somebody who can be rehabilitated. He was simply deemed more useful. Produced by ABC Australia, distributed by Journeyman Pictures

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Bagram: America's blackhole in Afghanistan
While the US has spent billions of dollars on humanitarian projects in Afghanistan, any goodwill generated may well be undermined by the continued existence of a notorious detention facility operating outside the proper Afghan legal framework.

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Misguided Aid in Afghanistan - Washington Post Panel
Complete video at: fora.tv Washington Post reporter Pamela Constable discusses problems with American aid distribution in post-war Afghanistan. This excerpt is taken from a panel discussion entitled, "Washington Post Panel: America and the World in 2008," recorded in collaboration with the World Affairs Council of Washington, DC ----- The Council's Annual Washington Post Panel continues with the Foreign News Editors and Correspondents from the Washington Post discussing major world issues facing the country and the new president - World Affairs Council of Washington, DC Pamela Constable has covered South Asia for The Washington Post since April 1999, with extensive coverage of Afghanistan as well as both India and Pakistan. Before arriving in New Delhi in 1999, Constable worked for The Post from 1994 to 1998 covering immigration and Hispanic affairs in the Washington area, and reported from Honduras, El Salvador, Haiti and Cuba. Prior to joining The Post, Constable worked for The Boston Globe as deputy Washington bureau chief and foreign policy reporter from June to September 1994. Previously, from 1983 until 1992, she was The Globe's roving foreign correspondent, Latin America correspondent and diplomatic correspondent. During this time she reported from Haiti, Chile, Peru, Argentina, Cuba, Colombia, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico, South Korea, the Philippines, the Soviet Union and Brazil, as well as in Washington. From 1978 to 1982, she was a staff writer at The <b>...</b>

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Scores dead after US strike in Afghanistan - 06 May 09
The Afghan president is in Washington DC for high level talks, but back in Afghanistan a deadly airstrike has once again killed scores of civilians. The local governor of a small community in Western Afghanistan claims that more than 100 civilians have been killed in a US led airstrike. The Red Cross confirmed the attack, saying its representatives have seen dozens of bodies. Al Jazeera has filmed exclusive pictures from Farah Province and Nick Clark reports from Kabul.

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Charlie Rose - Interview - DR Abdulla Abdulla Afghan political man in Washington DC
From USA .

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Afghanistan Massacre Fallout
Via The Washington Post: "The Army staff sergeant accused of massacring Afghan civilians while they slept was providing security at a remote base for special operations forces that were teaching the Afghans how to defend themselves. While the soldier had no special operations training, his alleged actions deal a blow to the elite outreach program — called "Village Stability Operations" — which the US says is key to handing off security to Afghans and keeping the Taliban at bay...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks down the potential fallout from the shootings - will a withdrawal of troops come sooner than expected and end the year that began over 10 years ago? www.washingtonpost.com Subscribe to The Young Turks: bit.ly Find out how to watch The Young Turks on Current by clicking here: www.current.com The Largest Online New Show in the World. Google+: www.gplus.to Facebook: www.facebook.com Twitter: twitter.com

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'US seeks to stay forever in Afghanistan'
The US seeks to continue the Afghan war into a "perpetual state of low intensity guerilla conflict", preventing the country to rebuild its infrastructure, says a prominent political analyst. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called for an investigation into what is described as the biggest coordinated Taliban attacks this year. Karzai says intelligence failures on the part of US-led forces allowed the militants to sneak into the most secure neighborhoods. The weekend assault in the capital Kabul and elsewhere left over 50 people--including four civilians and 11 Afghan soldiers --dead. Washington has dismissed Karzai's claim, saying the attacks were likely carried out by the Pakistan-based Haqqani network. This comes weeks ahead of the NATO summit in Chicago, where Karzai is expected to ink a strategic pact with the US. Meanwhile, the US is reportedly gearing up for a major offensive in the war-torn nation. Reports say the US-led spring offensive will be in the regions that control the main access routes into Kabul. Press TV has conducted an interview with Webster Griffin Tarpley, an author and historian in Washington, to further talk over the issue. Watch this article on our website: www.presstv.com

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Cameron meets Obama for White House talks
David Cameron has told Barack Obama during talks in Washington that releasing the Lockerbie bomber was "wrong". . Follow us on twitter at twitter.com .

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Soft Spot: Afghan supply route reveals US frailty
NATO's recent deadly air attack on Pakistan has put the US mission in Afghanistan in danger with supplies cut-off, meaning Washington will soon have to turn to other transit states to keep its military effort going. Russia is among the alternatives and this could mean some well-timed diplomatic leverage for Moscow. RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com

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US strategy questioned after Afghan massacre
The lawyer for the US army sergeant suspected of killing 16 Afghan villagers is preparing for his first face-to-face meeting with his client. John Henry Browne, a lawyer from Seattle, said he was to meet staff sergeant Robert Bales, a 10-year veteran, who allegedly entered three homes in two Afghan villages and killed 11 people in one single household. Bales is to face formal charges within a week, but the case has raised scrutiny and questions about US military strategy and planning in Iraq and Afghanistan. Al Jazeera's Daniel Lak reports from Washington.

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Afghan War Vet Tells It Like It Is, Listen Up Obama
Afghan War Vets March On Washington To Protest Against Ongoing War. As the conflict in Afghanistan becomes increasingly unpopular, a group of veterans came to Washington, DC to show lawmakers the perspective of soldiers and afghan civilians. Priya Sridhar talks to former soldier Brock McIntosh about US options in Afghanistan. Afghanistan War is like Killing a Fly with a Sledgehammer

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Amid Push for Talks With Taliban, Where Do Rights of Afghan Women Fit In?
Read the Transcript: to.pbs.org Three Afghan women, influential figures in politics, business and non-governmental organizations, were in Washington last week meeting with senior members of the Obama administration and Congress on the topic of negotiating peace with the Taliban. Margaret Warner gets their views on the situation in their country.

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History of Afghanistan
Tasawar ul Karim Baig, URDU VOA NEWS, Washington. Afghanistan's history, internal political development, foreign relations, and very existence as an independent state have largely been determined by its geographic location at the crossroads of Central, West, and South Asia. Over the centuries, waves of migrating peoples passed through the region and leaving behind a mosaic of ethnic and linguistic groups. In modern times, as well as in antiquity, vast armies of the world passed through Afghanistan, temporarily establishing local control and often dominating Iran and northern India. Assistant Professor of history at George Washington University, Benjamin Hopkins, says Future development is a participation of Afghanis themselves in writing that Future. At the moment there is lot of attention paid to American efforts, those of its allies, those of its regional neighbors, whether they be Pakistan or India, well these are certainly important part of elements they going to condition the opportunities and the limits to Afghan body politics has to deal with, at the end of the day the stability and viability the Afghan body politic in an Afghan question and its going to be buying from the Afghan public into the public structure, that is going to determine, its ultimate legitimacy and stability.

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The Platform: Implications of Afghan-India agreement for South Asia (Part I)
With Afghanistan and India signing a new strategic partnership agreement, what contribution do economic ties have for a stable South Asia with the fast approaching endgame. Dr Maria Zulfiqar hosts former State Bank of Pakistan Governor Dr Ishrat Hussain and South Asian studies expert and driector of Afghanistan-Central Asia Institute of Strategic studies. Raza Naqvi in Washington simultaneously hosts South Asia expert Dr Walter Anderson and Afghanistan expert and senior Fellow American Security Project, Joshua Foust. Feedback: email: theplatform@expressnews.tv twitter: @VOAXprsplatform

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The Platform: Implications of Afghan-India agreement for South Asia (Part II)
With Afghanistan and India signing a new strategic partnership agreement, what contribution do economic ties have for a stable South Asia with the fast approaching endgame. Dr Maria Zulfiqar hosts former State Bank of Pakistan Governor Dr Ishrat Hussain and South Asian studies expert and driector of Afghanistan-Central Asia Institute of Strategic studies. Raza Naqvi in Washington simultaneously hosts South Asia expert Dr Walter Anderson and Afghanistan expert and senior Fellow American Security Project, Joshua Foust. Feedback: email: theplatform@expressnews.tv twitter: @VOAXprsplatform

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Haqqani Network and Ongoing Reconciliation Efforts - Murad Khan, Washington DC
One of the Smartest moves on part of Pakistan and Afghanistan Governments to reach out to Haqqani Network for reconciliation

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Quantico, where Marines train before Afghan tours
REPORT: At Quantico, a US Marine training camp an hour away from Washington, DC, young men and women are training to become officers. Most students here are athletes, and all are trained in the basics of martial arts.

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US shrouds massacre of Afghans-The Real Deal-03-19-2012
An unnamed US soldier has killed 16 defenseless civilians, most of them children, in Afghanistan. "The occupation forces and the politicians who sent them there make a big deal of the so-called democracy they put in place in Afghanistan but in the democracy you would expect that the perpetrators of such a crime would be named ..." Says George Galloway. "[However] the US forces in the Washington regime have attempted to shroud the killer's identity," Galloway adds. Meanwhile, the US is so confident in Afghan democracy and its judiciary that it quickly and quietly flew the soldier out of the country. The incident prompted Afghan President Hamid Karzai to ask that US troops no longer patrol villages and rural areas and leave it to the Afghan army. Does anyone really believe that Barack Obama or his successor is ever going to be able to say "mission accomplished in Afghanistan?" Watch this video on our Website: www.presstv.com Follow our Facebook on: www.facebook.com Follow our Twitter on: twitter.com

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Taliban: Soldier held in Afghanistan - 23-year-old Bowie Idahoan
WASHINGTON The Pentagon on Sunday confirmed that an American soldier who went missing from his base in Afghanistan has been captured and identified him as a private from Idaho serving with an Alaska-based infantry regiment. The Defense Department released the name of Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, 23, of Ketchum, Idaho, one day after he was seen in a video posted online as saying he was "scared I won't be able to go home." Even before his name became public, two US defense officials confirmed to The Associated Press that the man in that 28-minute video was the captured soldier. The video provided the first public glimpse of the American. The Pentagon statement said Bergdahl's status was listed as whereabouts unknown on July 1 and was changed to missing-captured on July 3. He is a member of 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, based at Fort Richardson, Alaska. The soldier in the video had his head shaved and was seen with the start of a beard. He was sitting and dressed in a nondescript, gray outfit. Early in the video one captor held the soldier's dog tag up to the camera. His name and ID number were clearly visible. He was shown eating at one point and sitting cross-legged. The soldier gave his name, age and hometown on the video, which was released on a Web site pointed out by the Taliban. He said the date was July 14 and that he was captured when he lagged behind on a patrol. He was interviewed in English by his <b>...</b>

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