Contributor ReportsAfghan officials fear talk of exit strategy
Source: Associated Press
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Mon Nov 30 13:49:57 -0800 2009 | travel-news
If he talks extensively in his speech Tuesday night about winding down the war, Afghans fear the Taliban will simply bide their time until the Americans abandon the country much as Washington did after the Soviets left 20 years ago....
Court bars release of detainee abuse pics
Source: United Press International
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Mon Nov 30 12:27:26 -0800 2009 | political-news
Supreme Court Monday threw out a lower-court ruling that would have forced the release of photos of alleged detainee abuse by the U.S. military. A federal appeals court in New York had ordered the Pentagon in 2008 to release the...
Capuano doubts polls, eyes undecideds
Source: The Arlington Advocate
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Mon Nov 30 13:29:35 -0800 2009 | political-news
Rep. Michael Capuano sought Monday to downplay polls showing him facing double-digit disadvantages against front-runner Attorney General Martha Coakley in the Senate race, and said the large bloc of undecided voters had just begun to focus on the election. “I...
Obama, Rudd to discuss Afghanistan
Source: United Press International
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Mon Nov 30 05:30:31 -0800 2009 | travel-news
President Obama welcomes Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to Washington Monday for talks on Afghanistan and climate change, the White House said. Rudd's visit to the White House begins a week in which Obama plans to announce his strategy for...
Senate to Begin Health Bill Debate
Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Mon Nov 30 07:35:36 -0800 2009 | political-news
The Senate is set to begin debate on its health-overhaul bill Monday, with Democrats and Republicans planning to offer amendments on divisive subjects such as abortion and taxes that could hamper passage of the bill...Democrats would like to pass a...
As Obama Mulls Afghan Decision, A Look Ahead
Source: National Public Radio
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sun Nov 29 14:34:26 -0800 2009 | travel-news
When the president takes the podium at West Point on Tuesday, he'll draw not only from America's experience at war in Afghanistan, but from the Soviet Union's as well. Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution talks to guest host Robert...
Jim Sheridan directs 'Brothers'
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Sun Nov 29 19:11:51 -0800 2009 | entertainment-news
But we both know that movies that so much as touch on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have turned out to be tough sells. Even "The Hurt Locker," which opened to almost uniformly glowing reviews, brought in only $12...
6 Afghan national police killed by fellow officer
Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Mon Nov 30 06:17:12 -0800 2009 | travel-news
A rogue Afghan police officer opened fire at a checkpoint in southwest Afghanistan, killing six police officers and injuring two before being killed, an official said Monday...The shooting in southern Nimroz province occurred Sunday morning in Khash Rod district, said...
Rape in Afghanistan a profound problem, U.N. says
Source: Chicago Tribune
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Mon Nov 30 04:51:00 -0800 2009 | political-news
Rape in Afghanistan is under-reported, concealed and a human rights problem of "profound proportions", the United Nations said on Monday. Norah Niland, the United Nations' human rights representative in Afghanistan, said field research conducted late last year and early this...
Daily U.S. Casualties
Source: Tulsa World
Kabul :: Afghanistan | updated Mon Nov 30 00:44:54 -0800 2009 | travel-news
Last Modified: 11/29/2009 2:32 AM Afghanistan: As of Saturday, at least 849 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.
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