Sentences with phrase «as afghan»

Screen - printed black text on bright green, the memo requests a review of the «al Qida network» (eight months before 9/11) and inquires about funding groups in opposition to «the Taliban / al Qida,» such as the Afghan Northern Alliance, the perceived «threat magnitude» from the terrorist network, and the Bush administration's intended strategy.

She uses materials such as Afghan carpets, cardboard and other found textiles.

The mesmerizing campaign and all - time map classics such as Afghan, Terminal, Wasteland and Highrise (just to mention a few) would be a sure fire winner.

If you have a sighthound such as an Afghan or Greyhound, consider the outdoor sport lure coursing.

Sight hounds (sometimes called gazehounds) include the Borzoi along with such breeds as the Afghan Hound, Greyhound, Ibizan Hound, Irish Wolfhound, Pharaoh Hound, Saluki, Scottish Deerhound, and Whippet.

He is an active member of several professional organizations including the American Veterinary Medical Association, Illinois State Veterinary Medical Association, the Veterinary Emergency & Critical Care Society, as well as The Afghan Hound Club of America and Fox Terrier Club of Chicago.

While some longhaired breeds such as Afghan Hounds or Shit - Zu's may be pretty in pictures, in reality it takes a large amount of grooming and maintenance to get that perfect, manicured look.

These are heavy duty tools used for dogs who have coarse, thick coats of fur such as the Afghan, German Shepherd, or Schnauzer.

Although some investigators reported an apparent fast rise in incidence paralleling the spurt in popularity in some breeds such as Afghan Hounds and Doberman Pinschers, such drastic changes have not been well documented elsewhere.

Meanwhile, in the vacuum left by the U.S. and NATO, the Taliban is regrouping as the Afghan and Pakistani governments flounder.

Alfred Molina plays a far dopier role as an Afghan politician somewhat obsessed with Fey's character, but that whole storyline is so jokey (and hokey) it's hard to take it too seriously.

Martin Freeman (as war photographer Iain MacKelpie), Christopher Abbott (as Afghan fixer Fahim), and Billy Bob Thornton (as a Marine General) contribute mightily to the film's artistic success.

And then there's the casting of two white actors, Alfred Molina and Christopher Abbott (James White, Girls), as Afghan characters.

Vulnerable populations, such as these Afghan children in Kabul, have the right to food and health.

Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene, A two - star general from the Capital Region, became the highest - ranking American military officer to be killed in a combat zone since the Vietnam War on Tuesday when a gunman dressed as an Afghan soldier opened fire on U.S. and coalition leaders touring a military academy in Kabul.

This Afghan policy was very much influenced by «Pashtunistanism,» driven by idealistic and principled causes (i.e. supporting Pashtuns and Balochs» right to self - determination, not recognizing the Durand line, and most of all continuing to claim as Afghan land territory lost in the 1893 Durand agreement, parts of today's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces in Pakistan).

Again, what is your objective in Afghanistan and as Afghan predict you come with an agenda again to make the lives of Afghans miserable... The center of Terrorism, Pakistan, was created by Britain and the 1890 - 1920s British policy blueprint to use «MAD Mullahs» against Afghanistan has been adopted by Islamabad.

Doctors with his skills were in high demand as the Afghan conflict heated up, and in 2009 he went to Kandahar, where he became the last Canadian in charge of the Role 3 Multinational Hospital at Kandahar Airfield.

«As the Afghans become steadily more capable of looking after their own security, so we will be able to start to bring our own forces home.

Not exact matches

You might recall his regrettable taste in romantic companions (a Hells Angels associate), his habit of leaving sensitive documents in random locations (said associate's home) and his talent for saying foolish things (such as calling for the ouster of an Afghan governor).

An attack on Save the Children's Jalalabad office on January 24 that killed six people and an attack on Kabul's military academy on January 29 that killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers were claimed by ISIS» Afghan branch — known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — Khorasan Province (ISIS - K).

But even worse, as of 2017, neither the US nor the Afghan government actually know how many personnel are ready for duty, thanks to the prevalence of «ghost» personnel: phony soldiers used to fence US - paid salaries and equipment.

One of the aircraft under consideration, the A-29 Super Tucano, is already in service with the Afghan air force, and the US has ordered six more of them to send to the country as the military adjusts to President Donald Trump's plans to expand the US - led war effort there.

The Department of Defense has only classified these figures once before — in 2015, when the Obama administration «was trying to portray the war in Afghanistan as all but over,» as the New York Times put it; today, the Afghan government appears to be playing defense, as well.

He meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the White House this week and is expected to press for immunity from prosecution as a condition for allowing even a relatively small contingent of U.S. troops to stay behind in Afghanistan after the 2014 drawdown.

He plans to organize Security Samplers, events at which Afghan military and police officers show off some of their skills — such as marksmanship and procedures for searching a house — to tribal elders.

Trump on Monday railed against the recent string of attacks in Afghanistan, and ruled out any US discussions with the Taliban as part of the effort to seek peace talks between the Afghan government and the insurgents.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about US war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

Known as «Afghan Girl,» journalist Steve McCurry's photograph of 12 - year - old Afghani refugee Sharbat Gula was the result of a five - minute session in 1984.

An integral part of the program was to pay militants to transfer their loyalty, and their weapons, to the Afghan government in order to serve as informal peacekeepers in a country dominated by militias.

Rangers from 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, as part of a combined Afghan and coalition security force operating in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, await a CH - 47 for extraction.

This process requires a lot of face time with Afghan Ministry of Interior officials — such as the men Ménard went to visit in the dusty capital on Jan. 10.

The PBO has provided credible estimates on the costs of the F - 35 fighter, the costs of the Afghan War as well as credible analysis on the fiscal affects of an aging population.

The documents also reveal that Afghan and Canadian officials tracked the suspect and that he was arrested and released a second time, even though intelligence officers had flagged him as a possible threat.

And when Canada is asked by its allies and when Canada is asked by the Afghan people get us ready to defend ourselves, I think Canada should respond as we are responding, as the government has responded...

Many are making a career out of it.Once promoted as strategic to control Afghan has become a noose around their neck, it is certainly a strategic pit where they have to eventually surrender.

They got mad that we were giving away radios with a picture of the Afghan flag on the boxes (the flag has verses from the Koran and they said we were encouraging people to throw the Koran on the ground as garbage).

«Our military neglected, out of ignorance, long - established correct procedures for handling religious materials,» said Lavoy, «even as we were fighting to help the Afghan people secure and govern their country, we as the military did not meet our obligations to the Muslim community.»

The U.S. believes an operation in North Waziristan is key to success in the Afghan war because the area serves as the main base for the Haqqani network — a militant group that military officials have said poses the greatest threat to troops in Afghanistan.

A suicide bomber detonated a device at a Shiite shrine in Kabul, as worshippers were marking the Shiite holy day of Ashura, Afghan Health Ministry spokesman Kargar Norughli said.

Radicals such as Palestine, Syria, Iran, Afghan, West Indonesia and North East Pakistan.

I don't know what fraction of the fallen dead they would regard as «heroes», but whatever it is, it hasn't stopped many of them from opposing the Iraq War or the Afghan Surge.

Jack, you had been reading too much about radicals such as Palestine, Syria, Iran, Afghan, West Indonesia and North East Pakistan.

Public discourse on the fallen is going to be an approximation, but if Hayes was going to wonder whether (for instance) troops who died because their Humvee ran over an IED or because they were shot by an Afghan security officer they were training should not be described as heroes, the calendar offers about 320 or so better days to bring up the subject.

Their contribution to parish life may turn out to be as marginal as their assistance to the Afghans — traditionally impervious to Christian witness.

One Iranian Christian convert was beaten by an Afghan man who reportedly saw this change as sinful, according The Express.

This continuing neglect of the Afghan contribution by U.S. media and policymakers can only have a demoralizing effect on the alliance between Kabul and Washington, an alliance that Miller cites as a reason for a continued U.S. military presence.

As the country enters 2007, the administration is about to present a nearly $ 100 billion supplementary request to Congress just for the Iraq and Afghan wars.

While the Afghan Constitution protects religious freedom in general, it also defines Islam as the state religion and prohibits the enactment of any law contradicting Islamic beliefs.

We see ample evidence of such violence and domination by those who are «connected» in much of our world — by Afghan warlords as well as the tyrannical chair of the condo board.