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Why Afghanistan's Mineral Deposits Won't Help
Afghan Police Detain A Dozen Pakistani Soldiers In Kunar Province
Afghan border police have detained a dozen Pakistani soldiers in the
country’s eastern Kunar province, bordering Pakistan, according to an
Afghan news website.
5 U.S. Soldiers Up On Murder Charges In Afghan Civilian Killings
Alert Issued for 17 Afghan Military Members AWOL From U.S. Air Force
Base
Paul Jay on RT - US knew Afghan bonanza in '07Did mineral
deposits in Afghanistan affect President Obama's '09 decision to widen
the scope of the war?
New Tape Reveals Al Qaeda's Finance Worries
Kandahar campaign will be bloody US troops by day, Taliban by
night Pt.2 - Junaid: Local people likely to suffer majority of
casualties
New Afghan commission is setting Taliban suspects free Afghanistan's
controversial new commission formed to release suspected Taliban
prisoners has set free 14 detainees already, primarily from U.S.
custody, and over two dozen more releases are imminent, Afghan officials
told McClatchy on Sunday. The commission was a concession to get the
Taliban to join peace talks.
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Taliban attack Afghan airbase US attorney general visits Afghanistan
as rebels strike a major base in Jalalabad.
AFGHANISTAN FUNDS
BLOCKED
Citing Corruption,
House Dems Cut Off $3.9 Billion In Reconstruction Money
After 100 deaths, UK troops to pull out of Sangin US forces move in
to Afghan district that has seen about a third of British casualti
Top McChrystal Aide Resigns In Wake Of Rolling Stone Piece
May 2009: Seymour Hersh - McChrystal Was Cheney's Chief Assassin; Camp
Nama
Petraeus to Modify Afghanistan Rules of Engagement, Source Says
A military source close to Gen. David Petraeus told Fox
News that one of the first things the general will do when he takes over
in Afghanistan is to modify the rules of engagement to make it easier
for U.S. troops to engage in combat with the enemy, though a Petraeus
spokesman pushed back on the claim. Troops on the ground and some
military commanders have said the strict rules -- aimed at preventing
civilian casualties -- have effectively forced the troops to fight with
one hand tied behind their backs.
Top Afghan Taliban commander killed while fleeing in
woman's attire
Toxic Sand: Another Enemy in Afghanistan? In a presentation at a
neurotoxicology conference in Portland, Ore., earlier this month, Palur
G. Gunasekar, a senior scientist with the Navy Environmental Health
Effects Laboratory, said that dust kicked up in sandstorms contains
manganese and other metals. "The sand is a risk factor for inducing
neurotoxicity,"
Taliban attacks Afghan aid office
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Wikileaks Founder Has Massacre Video Shenon Wikileaks Part 2 Julian
Assange, whom Pentagon investigators fear may soon release State Dept.
secrets, denies having them—but says he’s readying video of a deadly
U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan
The US and Karzai's little brother US should embrace Kandahar
'strongman' Ahmed Wali Karzai, says Robert Grenier.
9 NATO troops killed in Afghan helicopter crash, bombings
UK Special Envoy To Afghanistan Who Called For Taliban Talks Quits
Health official, 2 NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan
OBAMA OUSTS MCCHRYSTAL, SAYS HE
UNDERMINED CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT
President Obama will tap Gen. David Petraeus to take over for
McChrystal. Petraeus already leads US forces in Iraq.
Army Staff
Sergeant: 'We're F***ing Losing This Thing'
CIA head: 'No choice' but to use
Blackwater
Official Blames US for Increased Drug Production in Afghanistan
An Iranian provincial security official took the US responsible for
increased drug production and trafficking in Afghanistan, saying the
Afghan drug problem has seriously deteriorated since the US invasion of
the country.
Dem Senator backs longer war
If Petraeus
wants to prolong Afghan war, Feinstein would allow it.
Taliban Warn Foreign Companies Against Signing Mining Contracts
Kucinich: ‘We are losing our nation to lies about the necessity of war
Top General Supports July 2011 Timetable For Afghanistan, Sends Signals
On Strategy Change
Suicide attack on US aid office in Afghanistan
French General: American Strategy In Afghanistan Not Working
Vincent Desportes, head of France’s elite Inter-Forces Defense
College, has said that the American strategy in Afghanistan is ‘‘not
working’’ and that the situation there is at an all-time low,
according to a Pakistani daily.
Your tax dollars carried in suitcases
on planes to buy posh Dubai villas for rich Afghanis
Taliban Execute Seven Captives In Khost Province The Taliban have
executed seven out of the 40 civilians seized by them on the charge of
working for the Afghan government in southeastern Khost province,
according to a Pashtu-language daily.
Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz violence level 'alarming' Children being killed and
civilians raped in ethnic unrest in country's south, UN says
Number dead during Kyrgyzstan violence '10 times higher than thought'
Kyrgyzstan Hunts for ‘Militants’ Behind Ethnic Clashes
Kyrgyz forces staged raids Monday in the tense
south, killing two people and wounding 23, to find those behind deadly
ethnic clashes in the volatile Central Asian state, authorities said |