Afghan police

By Clayton Swisher in Asia on July 28th, 2010

Never thought a trip to the Arghandab District of Kandahar would leave Afroman in my head.

But apparently portions of the package we aired showing the Afghan police doing bong hits have made it to Comedy Central.

Kudos to Jon Stewart's Daily Show for giving Al Jazeera credit (the footage comes at the end of his set).

By John Terrett in Asia on February 21st, 2010
Photo by Reuters

Americans are being told to expect the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan to last well over another year.
 
The head of US Central Command, General David Petraeus, says the current operation in Marjah is only in its initial stages and the months ahead will be difficult. He was speaking on NBC's Meet The Press.
 
"They'll be tough. I have repeatedly said that these types of efforts are hard and they're hard all the time. I don't use words like optimist or pessimist I use realist but the reality is that it's hard and we're there for a very, very important reason and we can't forget that.

By James Bays in Asia on November 17th, 2009
I need to update and correct my recent posting "Military by numbers". Major General Richard Formica is about to finish his tour of duty as Commander of CSTC-A. When he leaves in a few days time, CSTC-A will become part of the new overall NATO command, “NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan”.
 
The new commander of both NTM-A and CSTC-A, in charge of efforts to train the Afghan police and army, is better known outside the military than most three-star US Generals. That's because Lieutenant General William Caldwell was chief US military spokesman in Baghdad, at a time when the war in Iraq was the global lead story.

Here is an appearance at the time on “Talk to Al Jazeera”:

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