NATO: Threat preceded VP's visit
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Intelligence reports indicated that the Taliban had the ability to carry out suicide attacks near the main US base in Afghanistan even before a bloody bombing during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, NATO said yesterday.
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Nato's chief warns of big challenges in Afghanistan, as top US and UK diplomats visit the country.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and the top U.S. commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan yesterday issued a blunt assessment of the alliance's shortcomings in that country, arguing that the unwillingness of some member states to risk combat casualties is threatening NATO's future and underminin...
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett was in Afghanistan Wednesday for talks amid tight security a day after a suicide blast during a visit by US Vice President Dick Cheney killed at least 14 people.
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Nato to fight WMD with instant sun? A group of former senior military officials has said that Nato must be prepared to launch pre-emptive nuclear strikes to "ward off the use of weapons of mass destruction by its enemies", the Telegraph reports.â¦
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - NATO stepped up patrols in   Kosovo on Thursday to head off possible violence as a decision   nears on the fate of Serbia's breakaway province.
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Vice President Dick Cheney said that the nation's fundamental security was at stake in the presidential election.
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan  - Vice President Dick Cheney made surprise visits to Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday to discuss a planned spring offensive against the Taliban after the most violent year since the hard-line group was ousted in 2001.
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Nato can prevail in Afghanistan - but only if members boost their commitment, the alliance's head warns.
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NATO military chiefs were set to wrap up a first meeting on Afghanistan amid urgent calls to boost their deployment in the south of the country where they have been surprised by the ferocity of the Taliban resistance.
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BRUSSELS -- Nearly 2,000 NATO troops, including two &quot;rapid response&quot; battalions from Spain and Italy, began arriving in Afghanistan this week to strengthen the international military presence there in time for the Oct. 9 presidential election, NATO officials said.
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Britain warned that the credibility of NATO was at stake in Afghanistan after it was surprised by the strength of resisitance from the Taliban, the country's hardline former rulers.
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The Nato alliance is to assume charge of security over the entirety of Afghanistan on Thursday.
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The NATO mission in Afghanistan threatens a rift between nations willing to participate in combat operations and those that are not.
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Guess who's not coming to dinner? Vladimir Putin was not invited to NATO's first summit in a country once incorporated into the Soviet Union, but that did not stop rumors that the Russian leader might show up ...Comment
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US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warns the future of Nato is at risk due to differences over Afghanistan.
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PORTOROZ, Slovenia -- NATO defense ministers faced a tense meeting with their Russian counterpart Friday after the Western alliance angered Moscow by agreeing to deepen cooperation with Georgia.Comment