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Breaking News: Robert Gates: Escalation can be quick in Afghanistan
Posted by: northsunm32

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sat Nov 21 23:58:40 -0800 2009 | political-news

One wonders what sort of escalation could take place in the middle of an Afghan winter. Usually conflict dies down until the Spring. Many areas where the Taliban are entrenched will be inaccessible. Also, if there is going to be...
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Latest Breaking News: Combat zone designation for Fort Hood massacre transcends semantics
Source: The Dallas Morning News

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sun Nov 22 00:43:46 -0800 2009 | political-news

Twelve of the 13 casualties in the Fort Hood massacre were soldiers. But were they combatants, and was an Army post in the middle of Texas a combat zone? If the answer is yes – as many Texas lawmakers say...
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Current News: Again ! 16 Killed in Homicide Bomb in West Afghanistan
Posted by: intellectual

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sat Nov 21 00:23:37 -0800 2009 | political-news

KABUL — A homicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 16 people, including two children and a policeman who were there, and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, many people were their for...
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Current World News: Time for truth about torture | Colin Horgan
Source: The Guardian

Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated Sat Nov 21 16:05:10 -0800 2009 | political-news

Time for truth about torture After a whistleblower revealed Canadian complicity in the torture of Afghan prisoners, a full public inquiry is vital One man has Canada in an uproar. Former second-in-command at the Canadian embassy in Kabul, Richard Colvin...
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Source: Baltimore Sun

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sat Nov 21 00:54:25 -0800 2009 | political-news

Standing just beyond the crime scene tape in a light drizzle, an older man passing through the area watched as detectives gathered evidence. "Some things supposed to be sacrosanct," he said...Brown III, a fourth-general mortician who handles services for at...
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Current Event: In Indiana, practice for 'civilian surge' in Afghanistan
Source: Washington Post

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Fri Nov 20 20:31:25 -0800 2009 | political-news

Outside a scruffy, two-story building, armed and flak-jacketed U.S. soldiers stood watch under a sagging Afghan flag. Inside, the provincial governor, a Hamid Karzai look-alike in a striped robe and Karakul cap, pleaded with two tribal elders to get along....
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Latest World Event: Counterinsurgency by the book
Source: The Globe & Mail

Kandahar :: Afghanistan | updated Fri Nov 20 18:57:48 -0800 2009 | political-news

T he question of whether Canada handed over large numbers of Afghans – possibly innocents – to face abuse and torture is not just one of morality or law, but about making the mission a success. So says the Canadian...
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Breaking News Event: Strains in Party Threatens Democrats
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Fri Nov 20 17:45:18 -0800 2009 | political-news

The Democratic Party's broad ruling coalition is starting to fracture as lawmakers come under increasing pressure from the left to respond to voter anger over joblessness and Wall Street bailouts. Tensions boiled over this week, with an angry party caucus...
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Source: Chicago-Sun Times

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Fri Nov 20 02:17:18 -0800 2009 | political-news

Southtown Star The 65-year-old Vietnam War veteran who suffered broken ribs and hurt his knee during a strong-arm robbery in south suburban Midlothian earlier this week died from his injuries. William Burtner's death was ruled a homicide Thursday after an...
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Breaking World News: Afghan govt would fall if NATO withdraws - UK minister
Source: Chicago Tribune

Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Fri Nov 20 15:08:43 -0800 2009 | political-news

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Friday. "If international forces leave, you can choose a time -- five minutes, 24 hours or seven days -- but the insurgent forces will overrun those forces that are prepared to put up...
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