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Experts On Afghanistan Doubt Survey On Foreign Occupation: Results Are Impossible

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new survey of the Afghan people is being touted as evidence that hearts and minds may, in fact, be warming to the U.S.'s military presence, which is...

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Fixer Tells The Story Of The Afghan War Through One American Journalist And His Biggest Asset

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hanna Ingber Win

The HuffPost sat down with Christian Parenti to talk to him about the film, Fixer: The Taking Of Ajmal Naqshbandi, modern war reporting and why he thinks Obama's current Afghan policy is bound to fail.

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HuffPost Review: Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi

Katya Wachtel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Katya Wachtel

This is the story of one of the thousands of silhouettes who roam war-zones every day so that we, thousands of miles away, can grasp what is happening on the front-line of wars that affect life on this continent too.

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Everything That Happens in Afghanistan Is Based on Lies or Illusions

Ann Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ann Jones

Fixer is the best documentary I've seen on Afghanistan -- so good it's hard to imagine a better one. It's a film full of the kind of fear that seems to inhabit international centers of power in Afghanistan today.

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