More fallout from U.S. Ambassador Peter Galbraith’s abrupt firing from the United Nations mission in Afghanistan. U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq confirms that an aide to the mission’s political-affairs section, which Galbraith headed before being fired yesterday over loudly protesting what he saw as U.N. acquiescence to election More…
As you’ve read, yesterday the U.N. mission in Afghanistan abruptly fired its deputy director for political affairs, Peter Galbraith, the longtime American human-rights gadfly diplomat. Galbraith got sacked for the absurdity of speaking out against fraud in an election the U.N. mission helped sponsor. And now the United States More…
Don’t worry America, Sweden is with you in Afghanistan. The surge is on.
Sweden wants to send more troops to Afghanistan after an assessment by the Armed Forces concluded that the current force of 500 soldiers is too small.
The Swedish military wants instead to boost
According to The New York Times, Ambassador Peter Galbraith, the top U.S. official on the United Nations’ Afghanistan mission, has been fired after urging his colleagues — and especially his boss Kai Eide — to take a harder line on addressing the election fraud that marred last month’s presidential More…
I’m still trying to figure out just what happened with Peter Galbraith, the possibly-former top American on the United Nations’ Afghanistan team who reportedly broke with the United Nations over its relatively soft line on election fraud. But until then: the U.N.-backed Afghan elections commission has More…
I don’t know how much credit to give this Times of London story, but it reports in detail that there was a fight between Kai Eide, the head of the United Nations’ mission to Afghanistan, and the seniormost American in the mission, former Ambassador Peter Galbraith, a lion in More…
Karen DeYoung of The Washington Post reports that all of that “whole-of-government” stuff coming from the Obama administration about (among other things) bolstering civilian efforts in Afghanistan is coming to pass:
Hundreds of additional U.S. diplomats and civilian officials would be deployed to Afghanistan as part of the
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