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Canada spending millions on private security in Afghanistan

C anadian military officers in Afghanistan approve millions of dollars each year for private firms that guard military bases and development projects in the increasingly dangerous Kandahar province. Defence Department documents obtained under federal ...

From GLORIA GALLOWAY, Globe and Mail,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NATO,  Taliban,  Xe,  Ujjal Dosanjh,  Peter MacKay

Kandahar field officers given wide powers over military spending

W hen Canadian military personnel in Afghanistan decided last February to rent an undisclosed number of armoured vehicles for travelling around Kabul, they did not need to beg money from bean counters in Canada. And when deployed soldiers bought more ...

From GLORIA GALLOWAY, Globe and Mail,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Peter MacKay

Canada won't apologize to British home children

E lsie Hathaway is glad that Britain will apologize for sending her and other poor children to former colonies, including Canada, to work as servants in homes and institutions where many became victims of abuse. Now Ms. Hathaway, 93, of Plaster Rock, ...

From GLORIA GALLOWAY, Globe and Mail,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Gordon Brown,  Kevin Rudd,  Jason Kenney

Coalition set to adopt Canadian counterinsurgency model

An uncomfortable awakening has occurred among coalition forces in Afghanistan – after so much time and dollars and lives lost, they realize they have been fighting this war all wrong. As a result, the coalition countries, including Canada, have ...

From GLORIA GALLOWAY, Globe and Mail,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  NATO,  Stanley A. McChrystal,  Barack Obama,  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Taliban launch bloody attacks ahead of vote

T he Taliban kicked off a promised bloody countdown to next week's presidential runoff with a series of audacious attacks in Kabul to try to scare people away from the polls. Before the flames had even been fully extinguished at the Bakhtar guest house – ...

From GLORIA GALLOWAY, Globe and Mail,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  Hamid Karzai,  Abdullah Abdullah,  United Nations

Blast kills Canadian foot soldier

J ustin Garrett Boyes was leading a foot patrol of Afghan National police through a district heavily populated by Taliban on Wednesday morning when the ground exploded beneath him. Lieutenant Boyes, a 26-year-old father who had just arrived for his ...

From GLORIA GALLOWAY, Globe and Mail,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Taliban

Six foreign workers killed in Afghanistan

T welve people, including six international workers, were killed and several others injured when gunmen raided a United Nations-approved guest house in the Afghan capital just after dawn on Wednesday morning. Rockets were fired at about the same time at ...

From GLORIA GALLOWAY, Globe and Mail,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Taliban,  Hamid Karzai,  Abdullah Abdullah

6 foreign workers killed in attack on UN guest house in Kabul

S ix international workers were killed and several others injured in an attack at a United Nations approved guest house in the Afghan capital Wednesday morning. At about 6:15 a.m. local time, three armed gunman in suicide vests entered the Baktar guest ...

From GLORIA GALLOWAY, Globe and Mail,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  New York Times Company,  Taliban,  Hamid Karzai,  Abdullah Abdullah

6 UN staff members killed in attack on Kabul guest house

A fghanistan's capital is in lock-down after multiple early-morning attacks that have taken the lives of six UN staff members at a United Nations sanctioned guest house. Rockets were also reportedly fired at the Serena, an upscale hotel where many ...

From GLORIA GALLOWAY, Globe and Mail,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Taliban,  Hamid Karzai,  Abdullah Abdullah

Afghan runner-up lists election conditions

A bdullah Abdullah has set out a list of “minimal” conditions that he says must be met if the run-off presidential election between him and Hamid Karzai is to be perceived as fair. Mr. Abdullah, a former foreign minister, called reporters to his home in ...

From GLORIA GALLOWAY, Globe and Mail,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Hamid Karzai,  Taliban,  New York Times Company

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