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Afghan Information and Culture Minister Abdul Karim Khurram, second right, is briefed regarding the rescued Afghanistan's artifacts at the National Museum in Kabul, Afghanistan on Oct. 6, 2009 Musadeq Sadeq / AP ... (KABUL) The National Museum of Afghanistan on Tuesday unveiled hundreds of looted artifacts, some dating back as far as the 11th century, seized from smugglers trying to sell them on Europe's black market ... A trade route between Europe and Asia for centuries, Afghanistan has long... (Time.com)
Corporate Greed a Bigger Problem Than Michael Moore Oct 6, 2009
Vice President Joe Biden sounds delusional when he says all's A-OK with Plan A and there is no need for Plan B. The Afghan War would seem to be ripe for Plan C. While "We are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism" by John Derbyshire is a bit of a stretch, "Culture of Corruption" by Michelle Malkin and "Exploiting Chaos" by Jeremy Gutsche have the ring of authenticity. "Catastrophe" by Dick Morris, a liberal-turned-conservative icon, gives all away on the cover. (Newsmax)
Boris Johnson on Blair as Europe president Oct 6, 2009
" But there isn't a constitution is there????? Geoff Turner on October 05, 2009 at 08:10 AM I watched what severely restricted sections of the Treaty were permitted to be debated by MPs in the house of commons before the treaty was rammed through just as so much bad legislation is rammed through. A pitifully small group of MPs bothered to turn up, making it clear they thought it a pointless waste of their time, and most just appeared in time to vote as ordered by the whips, despite this being an... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Oasis at risk Oct 6, 2009
Page last updated at 11:24 GMT, Monday, 5 October 2009 12:24 UK. Egypt oasis risks becoming mirage. (BBC News -- Africa)
Deadly Afghanistan attack: It wasn't just the Taliban Oct 6, 2009
During a lull in a firefight Sunday with taliban militants in Afghanistan's Helmand province, Afghan Army local commander Mohammed Hussein, left, stands with Marine squad leader Sgt. Matthew Duquette, of Warrenville, Ill ... The Taliban combined with an Al Qaeda-linked militant group and others to kill eight US soldiers in northeastern Afghanistan Sunday ... com's Pat Murphy about the forces that battled coalition troops over the weekend in northern Afghanistan, resulting in the death of eight... (Christian Science Monitor)
OBAMA DATE NIGHT: CELEBRATE WEDDING ANNI... Oct 5, 2009
Obamas' night out: First WH anniversary: The Swamp. Posted October 3, 2009 10:15 PM. (The Drudge Report)
Division over Tory welfare reforms Oct 5, 2009
Iran and Afghanistan feature prominently in the papers ... The Times and Guardian both quote a sacked UN official who says almost a third of the votes cast for Afghan President Hamid Karzai were. (BBC News -- UK)
Israeli police deploy around tense holy site Oct 5, 2009
Synagogue-dweller is Afghan Jewry's last gasp ... In the late 19th century, Afghanistan's Jews numbered about 40,000, many of them Persian Jews who had fled forced conversion in neighboring Iran ... Now Simentov is the caretaker and sole member of Afghanistan's only working synagogue. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Synagogue-dweller Is Afghan Jewry's Last Gasp Oct 4, 2009
Five Years Alone In His Synagogue, Afghan Jew Is His Community's Last Gasp ... In the late 19th century, Afghanistan's Jews numbered about 40,000, many of them Persian Jews who had fled forced conversion in neighboring Iran ... Now Simentov is the caretaker and sole member of Afghanistan's only working synagogue. (CBS News -- World)
Glastonbury tickets up for grabs Oct 4, 2009
Heavy US losses in Afghan battle. Japanese ex-minister found dead. (BBC News -- UK)
Diary from Swat Oct 3, 2009
Page last updated at 23:27 GMT, Friday, 2 October 2009 00:27 UK. Swat diary: 'Music from every corner. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Concussions, Cross-Promotions, and the Clinton Tapes Oct 3, 2009
Benchmarks might be the only way to regain the Afghan people's trust and restore legitimacy in the war. 4) ": How should Florida respond to Tim Tebow's concussive brain injury," by Josh Levin. (Slate)
RAHM MOCKED CRITICS: 'THEY'LL GET SOME GOOD SEATS'... Oct 3, 2009
Also, I am a Marine and a veteran of OEF and I do believe that the President should address the issue in Afghanistan immediately ... Also, I am a Marine and a veteran of OEF and I do believe that the President should address the issue in Afghanistan immediately ... With the Olympics going to Rio, the president is now free to focus on more pressing concerns, such as the war in Afghanistan. (The Drudge Report)
Nigeria singer's joy at Mobo win Oct 2, 2009
Page last updated at 18:11 GMT, Thursday, 1 October 2009 19:11 UK. Nneka's gritty style, haunting voice and political lyrics have won her a worldwide audience. (BBC News -- Africa)
US commander spells out Afghan difficulties Oct 2, 2009
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Search site aims to rival Google Oct 2, 2009
Marines under fire on Afghan front. FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
Full Story » Oct 2, 2009
US commander spells out Afghan difficulties - Yahoo ... US commander spells out Afghan difficulties. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
A tragic reminder of wars ultimate reality Oct 2, 2009
A Bibb County sheriff s deputy serving in the Georgia Army National Guard has been killed in Afghanistan. Staff Sgt. Alex French, 31, of Milledgeville, was a member of the National Guard s 48th Brigade, which deployed to Afghanistan earlier this year ... French was killed Sept. 30 in Kwhost, Afghanistan, when enemy forces attacked his unit using an improvised-explosive device, the Department of Defense said. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Attention seeking Oct 2, 2009
Marines under fire on Afghan front. Fossil finds extend human story. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Man On 24-Hr Surveillance in Terror Case Denies Terrorist Connections Oct 1, 2009 Graham: We're Walking a Road to Armageddon Sep 30, 2009 Terror on the Prairie: Zazi's Life in Colorado Sep 30, 2009 New Vegemite name puts Kraft Foods in a pickle Sep 30, 2009 Romans crushed Sep 30, 2009 Waltzing McChrystal Sep 30, 2009 * World News Quick Take Sep 26, 2009 HSBC bids farewell to dollar supremacy... Sep 25, 2009 Head of the Former Ottoman Dynasty Dies Sep 25, 2009 Wildlife: Just a luxury? Sep 25, 2009 US commander warns of "failure" in Afghanistan Sep 22, 2009 U.S. Commander Warns of 'Failure' in Afghanistan Sep 22, 2009 No Answer On More Troops in Afghanistan Sep 21, 2009 Afghan Commandos Persuade Towns to Turn on Taliban Sep 20, 2009 Is America Hooked on War? Sep 18, 2009 Addicts opens another front in Afghan war Sep 18, 2009 A veil of silence over murder Sep 17, 2009 Australia's ugly little secret Sep 17, 2009 LEONARD PITTS JR.: Culture war, quite literally Sep 16, 2009 As public wavers, Obama must weigh new options in Afghanistan Sep 16, 2009 Steve Walt: Why Is Osama Reading My Book? Sep 16, 2009 The Best from Sunday Sep 14, 2009 5 U.S. Troops Among 50 Dead in Afghanistan Sep 13, 2009 TMZ earns respect Sep 13, 2009 Getting out of the quagmire that is Afghanistan Sep 13, 2009 The Endless Aftermath of 9/11 Sep 12, 2009 On the road to gentle heroism Sep 12, 2009 2 Slain, Including Abortion Activist Sep 12, 2009 Why the US is afraid of 'Afghanization' Sep 12, 2009 Scots project extended in Malawi Sep 11, 2009 Love me don't Sep 11, 2009 UK City of Culture list unveiled Sep 11, 2009 Dunne eulogized in NY as great dad, friend, gossip Sep 11, 2009 Andrew Zimmern Eats His Way Around the World Sep 10, 2009 Criticism of Afghanistan hospital search Sep 9, 2009 UK 'must act' on planes Sep 9, 2009 'Mock muggings' to tackle crime Sep 9, 2009 Read the 'JER' transcript Sep 9, 2009 Reservist is both teacher, student in Afghan war zone Sep 8, 2009 Burundian police stoned to death Sep 8, 2009 Charity: U.S. troops stormed Afghan hospital Sep 8, 2009 Going for broke Sep 8, 2009 Anti-Islamists, Opposition Clash in U.K. Sep 7, 2009 Stryker training focuses on conflict resolution Sep 7, 2009 A loss of will in Afghanistan Sep 5, 2009 Spooks spill blood in the Hindu Kush Sep 4, 2009 Joint call for bank bonus rules Sep 4, 2009 Read the story Sep 3, 2009 Poll: Obama's Ratings on Afghanistan Drop Sep 2, 2009 Protests over Slovak language law Sep 2, 2009 Troops react to possible smoking ban Sep 1, 2009 Courts get 'booze Asbo' powers Aug 31, 2009 The curious appeal of miscellanea Aug 30, 2009 The CIA and Interrogations: A Bad Fit from the Start Aug 29, 2009 Full Story » Aug 28, 2009 CIA Program: Reckless or Tightly Governed? Aug 27, 2009 * World News Quick Take Aug 24, 2009 Observers say Afghan elections marred Aug 23, 2009 Afghanistan Voting Received Less Monitoring in South, Observer Groups Say Aug 23, 2009 Poetic, brutal world Aug 23, 2009 Afghanistan Is Still the New Vietnam Aug 23, 2009 Under burqas, Afghan women voted in protest Aug 22, 2009 Winning this war against terrorism with education Aug 22, 2009 Media views on Afghan poll Aug 22, 2009 Youth see Ramadan as chance to answer questions Aug 22, 2009
Khan said Zazi, who he got to know when they were both growing up in Queens, NY, asked if he could stay at his apartment for the night on Sept. 10 and he obliged, something he said is common in their Afghan culture. Since Khan wanted to stay late at the mosque, another man staying at his apartment gave Zazi a lift to Khan's home. (ABC News)
What crisis? Sep 30, 2009
Page last updated at 11:28 GMT, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 12:28 UK. Climate migration fears 'misplaced. (BBC News -- Africa)
" He also pointed to U.S. and NATO activities in fighting Taliban militants as demonstrative. "What we do in Afghanistan will affect the ability of Iran to get the message ... Smith asked the senator whether President Obama should give General Stanley McChrystal the additional 40,000 troops he has asked for in Afghanistan ... After having made several trips to Afghanistan, the senator concluded that the situation there is deteriorating and that more combat power is needed "to take fight back to... (CBS News)
Zazi was born in Afghanistan's war-torn border region, moving to Pakistan at age 7 and then to New York in 1999 ... Neighbors said the family kept to itself even before the arrests, and other Afghan-American families who came from southeastern Afghanistan said the Zazi family never interacted with Denver's tight-knit Muslim community ... "I used to see this guy Najibullah at the mosque from time to time," says Emanudin Ghiasi, an Afghan American and a founding member of the Colorado Muslim... (Time.com)
Page last updated at 07:11 GMT, Wednesday, 30 September 2009 08:11 UK. New Vegemite puts Kraft in pickle. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Page last updated at 13:24 GMT, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 14:24 UK. Roman 'disaster' that shaped Europe. (BBC News -- Europe)
Gen. Stanley McChrystal s request for a buildup of American troops in Afghanistan is being waltzed around the Obama administration as it stalls and ponders in its hope of talking the American commander out of it. We know that from the fact that the administration has had McChrystal's main report for over a month, and has stalled his troop request while they prepare a new "strategy." If they were interested in anything other than a phased withdrawal from Afghanistan, the White House would have... (Human Events Online)
Osmanoglu moved to New York City in 1933, and was married to Zeynep Tarzi, an exiled member of the Afghan royal family. UNITED STATES Dog kicked out of Aspen. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
The Afghan and Iraqi wars seem endless and we bleed endless debt into them ... This means Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, etc ... Would "protectionism enable us to use this now idle resource? And what would the effect be. Nowadays because of the depression even persons with skills cannot find jobs. What is awry? We have people with skills willing to work. We have the machinery, the infrastructure available in which they can do productive work. And we have people willing to consume goods.... (The Drudge Report)
Osmanoglu moved to New York City in 1933, and was married to Zeynep Tarzi, an exiled member of the Afghan royal family. He returned to Turkey in 1992 and was granted Turkish citizenship in 2004. (Time.com)
German Left urges Afghan pull-out. FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS. (BBC News -- Science)
Reuters AlertNet - US commander warns of "failure" in Afghanistan ... US commander warns of "failure" in Afghanistan 21 Sep 2009 07:24:09 GMT Source: Reuters ... (For more Afghanistan news, click [IDnAFPAK]). (AlertNet)
U.S. Commander Warns of lure Afghanistan ... U.S. Commander Warns of lure Afghanistan ... WASHINGTON/KABUL - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan says in a confidential assessment of the war that without additional forces the mission "will likely result in failure.". (Newsmax)
(CBS) President Barack Obama would not tell CBS News' Bob Schieffer whether he would approve a potential recommendation from General Stanley McChrystal, Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, to send tens of thousands of new American troops into that country ... Mr. Obama said that when he to 00004000 ok office he ordered a comprehensive review of the situation in Afghanistan, which was "adrift" after the Bush administration ... "Didn't you say on March 27th that you have announced a... (CBS News -- Politics)
Afghan Commandos Try to Persuade Countrymen to Turn Against Taliban ... Sept 8: The 6th Kandak Commandos of the Afghan National Army group ... GHOWS KALAY, Afghanistan The village is little more than a handful of mud huts surrounded by wheat fields, but the runway at NATO's main air base in Afghanistan's south is visible from the town center. (Fox News)
Last week, for instance, a New York Times front-page story by Eric Schmitt and David Sanger was "Obama Is Facing Doubts in Party on Afghanistan, Troop Buildup at Issue." It offered a modern version of journalistic Newspeak ... The conservative columnist George Will wrote a piece offering blunt advice to the Obama administration, summed up in its "Time to Get Out of Afghanistan." In our age of political and audience fragmentation and polarization, think of this as the Afghan version of Vietnam's... (CBS News -- Politics)
United Nations and Afghan officials say heroin use among Afghans is surging ... Afghanistan, besieged by decades of war, is fighting another battle a spiraling epidemic of heroin addiction in the country that is the world's largest producer of opium, which is used to make heroin ... Some Afghan officials worry these drug addicts could pose a threat to the country's security. (USA Today)
Plus, James refers to the extremity of the Northern Alliance that were used to displace the Taliban and by implication, the continuing Islamic misgyny of the present Afghan regime ... doubtless you'll be coming out against the afghan govt, now theyve endorsed such laws, Clive. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Most of the asylum seekers are Iraqis, and Afghan Hazaras ... For more than a decade, the Taliban has terrorised the Afghan people ... Many of the people held at our expense in Indonesia have plausible ties to Australia: some were caught up in the Pacific Solution but were forced back to Afghanistan or Iraq; some have family here. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
On the day to remember the terror of 9/11, the war it spawned in Afghanistan sowed fresh divisions ... But his call for an increased war effort in Afghanistan, birthplace of the 9/11 plot, is rejected by some who fear a Vietnam-style quagmire as the battle against Taliban insurgents bogs down in faraway, hostile terrain ... He is seeking more training for Afghan forces before committing more U.S. troops to the battle. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Since the inauguration, Obama has been weighing both sides of the issue concerning the Afghan War ... Majority opinion supports pulling out of Afghanistan in the near future while the other side, nearly half, believe that it is important to remain in Afghanistan to finish off the war with the possibly of another "surge." ... At this point, completely pulling out of Afghanistan does not even seem like the most logical option if you are able to see all factors that contributed to the Afghan War. (The Loyola Greyhound, MD)
It should be obvious that Americans shouldn't avoid having a debate about Israel or about Afghan policy just because bin Laden says we should ... " list at Amazon shows that W&M's book resonates with people of a certain mindset. Probably if the book was a bit more scholarly and a bit less polemical that wouldn't be as much the case. As it is, W&M start with a conclusion, present the evidence that supports their conclusion while omitting the evidence that contradicts it. Obviously they are trying... (Slate)
KABUL - About 50 civilians, security forces and militants were killed in a wave of violence around Afghanistan, including a bomb that left 14 Afghan travelers dead in one of the country's most dangerous regions. Five American soldiers died in two attacks using roadside bombs. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Members of the 3rd Platoon, Able Company 3-509th Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 4th BDE -25th Infantry Division from Fort Richardson, Alaska, patrol in East Paktika province, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 ... About 50 civilians, security forces and militants were killed in a wave of violence around Afghanistan, including a bomb that left 14 Afghan travelers dead in one of the country's most dangerous regions ... A roadside bomb and gunfire attack in western Afghanistan killed three... (CBS News)
Page last updated at 08:56 GMT, Saturday, 12 September 2009 09:56 UK. By Peter Bowes BBC News, Los Angeles. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Yes, Afghanistan is a quagmire ... But this rising anti-war sentiment presumes a false choice: that America must either make war in Afghanistan or quit the country altogether ... It's true that many Afghans in Afghanistan want to see Americans gone, but others still stake their very lives on America's presence. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
In the aftermath of 9/11, I spent a month in Afghanistan, covering life in Kabul shortly after the fall of the Taliban ... Afghanistan was no safer ... It was a stark contrast to what Id encountered in Afghanistan, where Id been shocked to find Afghanis who told me they were thrilled when the U.S. started bombing Kabul. (Slate)
Only when we encounter a herd of wild camels ; with their wonderful, superior expressions and their zig-zag hind legs ; does it dawn on me that the Ghan was named for the Afghan cameleers who did so much to make central Australia a going concern but are now largely forgotten. Mostly Afghan or Sikh but known universally as Ghans, the cameleers earned less than a quarter of the (mostly white) teamsters' wage. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
President Obama's Own Party Balks at Sending More Deployments, Prefers Training Afghan Army and Police. Defense Witnesses for U.S. Student Amanda Knox Expected to Challenge Evidence from Crime Scene. (CBS News)
The war in Afghanistan has not been lost yet, although a great deal has gone wrong ... The weakest link in the United States' Afghan strategy has been its handling of the calculus of power in Kabul ... But then, as the Afghan situation deteriorated in 2006, Washington. (Asia Times Online)
Afghan 'Indiana Jones' hunts lost Buddha ... The Afghan civil servants fighting for the Taliban. (BBC News -- UK)
Page last updated at 11:49 GMT, Thursday, 10 September 2009 12:49 UK. By Stephen Robb BBC News. (BBC News -- UK)
The Afghan civil servants fighting for the Taliban. Low production and high prices create sugar crisis in India. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
US commander confirms Afghan civilians among the wounded at site of NATO airstrike. KUNDUZ, Afghanistan (AP) - The top NATO commander in Afghanistan said Saturday that local villagers were among those wounded at the site of an airstrike on hijacked fuel tankers, declaring his resolve to limit civilian casualties that threaten to undermine the war against the Taliban. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
This fall I'm crossing Afghanistan and Mongolia off my list ... "" SULTAN MUNADI, the Afghan journalist and translator abducted by the Taliban and killed during the rescue attempt that freed his employer, New York Times reporter Stephen Farrell, in a Sept. 2 Times blog entry For use in rail of Articles page or Section Fronts pages ... "" SULTAN MUNADI, the Afghan journalist and translator abducted by the Taliban and killed during the rescue attempt that freed his employer, New York Times... (Time.com)
The U.S. military faced more criticism in Afghanistan on Monday as a charity accused American soldiers of storming through a provincial hospital, breaking down doors and tying up staff and visitors in a hunt for insurgents ... The American military said it was investigating the allegation, which comes on the heels of a furor over disputed reports that as many as 70 Afghan civilians died in a NATO air strike in the country's north last week ... Civilian deaths and intrusive searches have bred... (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Page last updated at 23:11 GMT, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 00:11 UK. Mock muggings' to tackle crime. (BBC News -- UK)
After the deadliest month of the war so far, calls from the left and the right to withdraw from Afghanistan ... After another bloody month in Afghanistan, calls from the left and the right to withdraw ... GIGOT: The news doesn't get any better for the president on foreign policy, with August marking the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Afghanistan since the war began there in 2001. (Fox News)
At age 33, and already in his 14th year of service with the Air Force, Master Sergeant Vongphakdy is on a yearlong tour of active duty at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan at a critical moment for the American mission there. As Afghans voted last month in a presidential election that many see as a test for the fledgling democratic government, Taliban rebels have stepped up their attacks, pushing US military casualties to the highest monthly levels since the US invasion in October 2001 ...... (Boston Globe)
UN warns Afghans over poll fraud ... Suicide bomb hits Afghan airport. (BBC News -- Africa)
U.S. soldiers are fighting to suppress the Taliban and win over the Afghan people ... From a lucky rock to photos of loved ones, U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan share the mementos that help remind them of home ... Serving in Afghanistan. (MSNBC -- International)
Page last updated at 09:37 GMT, Monday, 7 September 2009 10:37 UK. Michael Moore takes aim at money men. (BBC News -- Business)
Up to 70 Afghan Civilians Killed Friday; Two NATO Countries Trade Blame for Botched Attack. Couple Also Detained in Deal to Swap Baby for House and Other Payments, Police Say. (CBS News)
Some Fort Lewis soldiers will rely on words instead of weapons as their combat brigade navigates the difficult geographic and political terrain in Afghanistan ... The role of the Army installation in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has led to friction with South Sound peace activists ... The training reflects the new approach the U.S. military is taking as it fights counterinsurgencies among civilian populations in Afghanistan and Iraq. (Longview Daily News, WA)
WASHINGTON We are seeing the stirrings of a cross-ideological revolt against American military involvement in Afghanistan ... Such tinkering, the argument goes, is particularly doomed in Afghanistan, brimming with warlords both primitive and invincible ... And because Afghanistan is now s war, no partisan motive remains to support it. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Like in a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel, the murder of Dr Abdullah Laghmani, the deputy head of the Afghan National Directorate of Security, could have been foretold. But the sheer brutality of his murder by a suicide bomber in front of a mosque in the town of Mehtarlam in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday afternoon in the holy month of Ramadan speaks of a visceral hostility not easily fathomable ... The first circle of the Afghan security establishment has been breached. (Asia Times Online)
Page last updated at 20:22 GMT, Thursday, 3 September 2009 21:22 UK. Germany has signalled more desire to crack down on bonuses than the UK. (BBC News -- Europe)
Jobs, Water Key to Winning Afghan Villages - CBS Evening News - CBS News. YARGUL KALA, Afghanistan, Sept. 2, 2009 ... Jobs, Water Key to Winning Afghan Villages. (CBS News -- Evening News)
00004000 (CBS) The public remains negative about U.S. progress in Afghanistan ... Four in 10 now say they want U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan decreased, a percentage which has been rising since the beginning of 2009 ... In addition, President Obama's approval rating on handling Afghanistan has dropped eight points since April. (CBS News -- Evening News)
Sharp drop' in Afghan opium crop. Bubble' children treatment hope. (BBC News -- Europe)
Now a proposal to make the forces smoke-free is drawing strong reactions from troops who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though the Pentagon itself says any ban is a long way off ... Your nerves get all rattled and you need something to calm you down, said Staff Sgt. Jerry Benson of San Bernadino, California, with the 5th Stryker Brigade in southern Afghanistan ... Tobacco use in the military declined overall from 1980 to 2005, but is now reflecting the effects of the Iraq and... (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Page last updated at 01:22 GMT, Monday, 31 August 2009 02:22 UK. Drinkers could be banned from pubs or off-licences for up to two years. (BBC News -- UK)
is brown; more than 100 instances of misconduct have been alleged in the Afghan election; the swine flu is more likely to strike schoolchildren. And while the newspapers are on their way to financial ruin, it s not because people don t want information. (Boston Globe)
(David A. Passaro was convicted for assaulting in 2003 an Afghan detainee who later died. . (Time.com)
Early returns from Afghan election smell of a decorous massage job. The world's crookedest street turns into a life-size board game in The Week in Photos. (Yahoo News -- Politics)
" Funny how the "rule of law" means nothing to the war-mongers, when their own personal agenda is opposed by it. by stevex47 Augus 00004000 t 26, 2009 2:00 PM EDT Um, lets enter reality here...the boosh gang didn't govern ANYTHING tightly or loosely, reckless and incompetent was their only way of opereating. by calgal4 August 26, 2009 2:03 PM EDT I'm wondering how the people who carried out these tortures are able to live with themselves. I'd go AWOL before I'd harm another person deliberately!... (CBS News -- Early Show)
The bomb was planted in the car and was detonated by a remote control, he said, identifying the victims as Mubeen Afridi, spokesman for militant group Ansar-ul-Islam, which operates in Khyber tribal district near the Afghan border, and his driver. PHILIPPINES. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
KABUL, Afghanistan - Reports of fraud and intimidation in Afghanistan s presidential election continued to mount yesterday, with anecdotal but widespread accounts of ballot-box stuffing, a lack of impartiality among election workers and voters casting ballots for others ... The reports by election observers came as officials were still counting ballots from Afghanistan s second nationwide election in the nearly eight years since an American-led invasion ousted the Taliban ... Hundreds of polling... (Boston Globe)
Afghan Voting Received Less Monitoring in South, Groups Say - Bloomberg ... Afghan Voting Received Less Monitoring in South, Groups Say ... Aug. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Presidential voting in southern Afghanistan was subject to little attention from international observers because of attacks by Taliban guerrillas, raising the possibility of fraud there, independent monitoring groups said. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Back from Afghanistan, Guardsmen describe a world as poetic as a prayer and as brutal as a bomb ... Back from Afghanistan, Guardsmen describe a world as poetic as a prayer and as brutal as a bomb ... W EST PALM BEACH When the soldiers from Palm Beach County talk about their just-completed tour of duty in Afghanistan, they tend to gaze into the past. (The Palm Beach Post)
Afghanistan is today's Vietnam ... For those who say that comparing the current war in Afghanistan to the Vietnam War is taking things too far, here's a reality check: It's not taking things far enough ... From the origins of these North-South conflicts to the role of insurgents and the pointlessness of this week's Afghan presidential elections, it's impossible to ignore the similarities between these wars. (Slate)
Whether American troops can leave Afghanistan sooner rather than later depends on democracy's gains in that war-ravaged country and the gains of women, too ... Having lived under Taliban rule until the 2001 US invasion and now facing a Taliban resurgence women in Afghanistan are eager to keep what few rights they now have ... As in many Muslim countries, advances for Afghan women are critical to preventing a takeover by Islamic terrorists or to reduce their backward influence. (Christian Science Monitor)
There was one piece of advice that really stood out to me in reference to problem resolution. The author said, If you do not understand relationships, people, cultural economics, human terrain, and all those related issues, you will only see the symptoms rather than diagnosing the problem. (Somerset Daily American, PA)
Regional media split on Afghan poll ... As millions of Afghans wait for the country's election commission to announce preliminary results from Thursday's presidential election, regional media consider the challenges facing the future president and the possible implications of the outcome for foreign troops deployed there ... While some commentators described the vote as an important step for the democratic development of the country, others suggested that whatever the outcome, Afghanistan's fate... (BBC News -- South Asia)
Paratroopers off to new job training Afghan police ... The success of his assignment to mentor Afghan national police will depend on his paratroopers going beyond combat skills to learn the culture and what it takes to enforce the law in a country racked by warlords and corruption. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
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