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59% polled say Afghan mission lost cause

Fifty-nine per cent of respondents agreed Canadian soldiers “are dying for a cause we cannot win,” while just 34 per cent disagreed with that statement.

Canada follows prisoner rules: Red Cross head

The head of the International Red Cross says he’s satisfied that Canadian troops in Afghanistan are following all the rules when they take prisoners.

Retired Pakistani intelligence officials may be helping Taliban: Musharraf

Pakistan’s intelligence service has played no role in propping up the renegade Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, President Pervez Musharraf told US television Sunday, although he is investigating possible support to the rebels from retired Pakistani intelligence officials.

Military worried about Tory failure to defend Afghan mission over summer

The Conservative government’s inability last summer to clearly articulate and defend Canada’s mission in Afghanistan was a source of great frustration among the country’s top military commanders, Defence Department sources say.

Afghanistan considers spraying opium fields

With profits from this spring’s record opium crop fueling a broad Taliban offensive, Afghan authorities say they are considering a once unthinkable way to deal with the scourge: spraying poppy fields with herbicide.

Layton mulls trip to Afghanistan

Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton, who wants Canada to pull its troops from Afghanistan, says he wants to visit the war-torn country to get a sense of the situation there.

Harper Bizarro reveals more Conservative patronage here and here.