http://labs.daylife.com/journalist/c._j._chiversArticles by C. J. CHIVERS, aggregated by daylife.comen-usMon, 23 Nov 2009 22:19:13 GMTMon, 23 Nov 2009 22:19:13 GMTDaylife Betaken@daylife.comken@daylife.comhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/world/americas/01briefs-ARMSbrf.html?partner=rss&emc=rssAn arms dealer in Miami Beach who had extensive business with the Pentagon to supply ordnance for Afghanistan’s security forces pleaded guilty last week to conspiracy. The dealer, Efraim E. Diveroli, of AEY Inc., admitted that he had arranged the ...Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:50:50 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/world/americas/01briefs-ARMSbrf.html?partner=rss&emc=rsshttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=4d78f20a78a21ea76f97512908bcb71cHer killers worked quickly, as if on orders. They drove to a remote place, shot her and left her near the road, killing her in exactly the manner her friends had long feared would be her fate. Her purse was nearby. Her killers did not want it. This ...Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:36:14 GMThttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=4d78f20a78a21ea76f97512908bcb71chttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/world/asia/08afghan.html?partner=rss&emc=rssThe Afghan foot patrol descended a mountain and slipped through a canyon. Then things went wrong. One Afghan soldier insulted another. And there, exposed on dangerous ground, a scuffle erupted. The soldiers turned on each other with shoves, punches ...Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:28:17 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/world/asia/08afghan.html?partner=rss&emc=rssThe PentagonBarack ObamaGeorge W. Bushhttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=964be7fcd744d21c90e3ea869ed4b29dTwo former employees of A.E.Y. Inc., a military contracting firm in Miami Beach, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the government. David Packouz, 27, a former vice president, and Alex Podrizki, also 27, a company agent who worked in Albania, ...Wed, 27 May 2009 03:28:19 GMThttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=964be7fcd744d21c90e3ea869ed4b29dhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/world/asia/20ammo.html?partner=rss&emc=rssKABUL, Afghanistan Insurgents in Afghanistan, fighting from some of the poorest and most remote regions on earth, have managed for years to maintain an intensive guerrilla war against materially superior American and Afghan forces. Arms and ordnance ...Wed, 20 May 2009 00:44:58 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/world/asia/20ammo.html?partner=rss&emc=rssThe PentagonNew York Times Companyhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/world/asia/14korangal.html?partner=rss&emc=rssKORANGAL OUTPOST, Afghanistan The helicopters landed in blackness before the moon rose. The infantry company rushed out and through waist-high vegetation and into forests on an Afghan ridge. Over the next 40 hours, more than 100 soldiers from the First ...Wed, 13 May 2009 23:53:22 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/world/asia/14korangal.html?partner=rss&emc=rssGeorge W. Bushhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/world/asia/01firebase.html?partner=rss&emc=rssFIREBASE VIMOTO, Afghanistan Three stone houses and a cluster of sandbagged bunkers cling to a slope above the Korangal Valley, forming an oval perimeter roughly 75 yards long. The oval is reinforced with timber and ringed with concertina wire. An ...Fri, 01 May 2009 00:29:44 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/world/asia/01firebase.html?partner=rss&emc=rssNew York Times Companyhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/world/asia/20ambush.html?partner=rss&emc=rssALIABAD, Afghanistan The two Army lieutenants crouched against boulders beside the Korangal River. Taliban gunfire poured down from villages and cliffs above, hitting tree branches and rocks and snapping as the bullets passed over the officers’ helmets. ...Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:36:42 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/world/asia/20ambush.html?partner=rss&emc=rssThomas Wrighthttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/world/asia/17afghan.html?partner=rss&emc=rssKORANGAL OUTPOST, Afghanistan Only the lead insurgents were disciplined as they walked along the ridge. They moved carefully, with weapons ready and at least five yards between each man, the soldiers who surprised them said. Behind them, a knot of ...Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:33:06 GMThttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/world/asia/17afghan.html?partner=rss&emc=rssJustin Smithhttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=ec4f246ce4167d0669192ecdf6341dbfDANGALEEK, Afghanistan First Lt. C. Carter Cheek stood in the Afghan rain. His patrol had climbed a switchback road leading to the Taliban-dominated village of Wanat, the location of the bloodiest battle for American forces in Afghanistan since 2005. ...Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:32:31 GMThttp://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=ec4f246ce4167d0669192ecdf6341dbfBarack ObamaThe Pentagon