Ann Marlowe (05/08): “The crown jewel in the American counterinsurgency is Khost province.”
Barnett Rubin (05/08): “No amount of road building and police mentoring in Khost will compensate for a failed regional policy and unreliable security forces. The successes in Khost are not so much fake as irrelevant to the larger picture.”
Xinhua (05/08): “Anti-government militants set ablaze a clinic in Afghanistan’s eastern Khost province early Wednesday, a police officer said.”
CJTF-101 (05/08): IED after militant clash after militant capture after IED… in Khost
e-Ariana (06/07): “The police in Khost showed us a suicide vest they had captured a few days ago. It was wired and ready for use, packed with 30kg of explosives.”
Overall security incidents in RC/East, courtesy Rubin?
Up 36.3% over 2007. The signs of impending victory are afoot.
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Joshua Foust is a Fellow at the American Security Project and the author of Afghanistan Journal: Selections from Registan.net. His research focuses primarily on Central and South Asia. Joshua is a correspondent for The Atlantic and a columnist for PBS Need to Know. Joshua appears regularly on the BBC World News, Aljazeera, and international public radio. Joshua is also a regular contributor to Foreign Policy’s AfPak Channel, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Reuters, and the Christian Science Monitor.