S. warns of reprisals over bin Laden killing WASHINGTON - The State Department put U.S. embassies on alert early today and warned of the heightened possibility for anti- American violence after the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden by American forces in Pakistan.
Four days after killing al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden in Pakistan last Sunday, U.S. forces began an attack against another infamous terrorist. The strike -- this one in Yemen -- targeted Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born radical Muslim cleric. The pilotless drone`s missile missed him but killed two other militants.
WASHINGTON - President Obama will order a "real drawdown" of U.S. forces from Afghanistan starting in July, the White House insisted Monday, a milestone in a long war that is testing the patience of the American people and Congress particularly after the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. Roughly 100,000 U.S. troops are in Afghanistan, three times as many as when Obama took office, and U.S. forces are expected to remain there through 2014.
Ralph Peters, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, served as a foreign area officer and a global strategic scout for the Pentagon. The author of more than two dozen books, he also played guitar in a rock 'n' roll band in his younger days and now appears frequently as a television and radio commentator and strategic analyst. We talked by telephone Tuesday after Navy SEALs located and killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.
KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates appealed for patience with an unpopular war and said Saturday that only modest U.S. troop reductions would make sense this summer in a still unstable Afghanistan. On his 12th and final visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, Gates held out the possibility of a turning point in the war by year's end. But Gates, who's retiring June 30, said much depends on whether the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden creates a new opening for peace negotiations with leaders of the Taliban insurgency.
Will Pakistan rift cloud peace talks? ISLAMABAD -- A top U.S. envoy said Thursday that not all insurgent factions in Afghanistan will agree to enter the peace process, meaning that force will be necessary to subdue the holdouts. The envoy, Marc Grossman, was in the region to try to patch up ties with Pakistan, whose cooperation is considered key to bringing the Afghan war to an end. Grossman's comments underscored the complexity of reconciliation efforts in Afghanistan, even as some observers hope that America's killing of al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden would nudge some Afghan Taliban to shed their affiliation with the terror network and join eventual peace talks. "Will everybody be reconciled? No, I'm afraid not," Grossman told Express 24/7, a private Pakistani channel. Afghan Preside...
KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. Sen. John Kerry warned Sunday that already shaky U.S.-Pakistani relations have reached a critical juncture as calls grow in the United States to cut some of the billions of dollars in aid to Islamabad following al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's killing. Kerry, who spoke in Afghanistan before traveling to Pakistan, said sober and serious discussion was needed to resolve the widening rift amid growing suspicion that Pakistan's security forces were complicit in harboring the al-Qaida leader, who was killed May 2 in a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs not far from Islamabad.
BERLIN -- An American missile strike killed five German militants Monday in the rugged Pakistan border area where a cell of Germans and Britons at the heart of the U.S. terror alert for Europe -- a plot U.S. officials link to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden -- were believed in hiding. The attack, part of a recent spike in American drone strikes on Pakistan, came as Germany said it has "concrete evidence" that at least 70 Germans have undergone paramilitary training in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and about a third have returned to Germany.
Threat level stays same despite bin Laden death The death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden raises the possibility of retaliation, but the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management says the state isn't facing any new threats.
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