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The Great Taliban Escape

GQ | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Taliban Prison Break, Kandahar Jailbreak, Kandahar, Video, Taliban Prisoners, Afghanistan, Kandahar-Afghanistan, Kandahar Prison, Taliban Fighters, Prison Break, Taliban, Taliban Afghanistan, Kandahar Jail, Afghanistan War, World News

It took years to lock them up. Hundreds of enemy fighters captured during some of the fiercest combat of the war. But then, one night last spring, as ...

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The Spirit Of Memorial Day: Remembering Those Who Didn't Return

Andrew Lubin | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Memorial Day, Usmc, Kandahar, Jim Anderson, Marines, Military, Army, Afghanistan, Air Force, Ied, Chris Anderson, Impact News

That's the spirit of Memorial Day; it's the remembrance of those who didn't come back alive, and a celebration of the esprit-de-corps and how they lived their lives.God bless the United States and those who stand watch over us tonight.

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Afghanistan Suicide Bomb Kills 2 Children

Posted 05.22.2012

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Afghan police say a suicide car bomber has blown himself up at a security checkpoint outside a police station, killing two ch...

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Massacre Story Sparks Both Outrage and Reflection

David Tereshchuk | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Afghanistan Massacre, Kandahar, Rampage, Protests, Kill Team, Moral Outrage, Afghan Media, Leon Panetta Defense Secretary, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan Killings, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Shooting, Media News

Amid the worldwide horror and revulsion over nine Afghan children and seven adults evidently murdered by a US soldier, it was remarkable how, in the wake of the shootings, the Afghan media were so restrained in their coverage.

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Think Locally, Occupy Globally: Our Fight Is the World's - and Vice Versa

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Global Change, Kandahar, Apartheid, Poverty, Global Poverty, South Africa, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, Politics News

The struggle goes on -- in Capetown and Durban and Pretoria, in Oakland and Manhattan and Los Angeles, in the hearts and minds of souls of people who fight despair and corruption in the cities, towns, and villages of the world.

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Suspected Insurgents Open Fire On Investigators Of Afghanistan Shooting Massacre, Officials Say

Reuters | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Kandahar, Video, Kandahar-Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Panjwai, Afghanistan Taliban, Afghanistan Insurgency, Taliban, Abdul Qayum Karzai, Shah Wali Karzai, Afghanistan War, World News

By Rob Taylor and Mirwais Harooni KABUL, March 13 (Reuters) - Suspected insurgents opened fire on Tuesday on senior Afghan investigators of the mas...

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U.S. Fears Reprisals After Afghan Shooting Rampage

Reuters | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Joshua Foust, Kandahar, Video, Afghan Shooting, Afghanistan, Asadullah Khalid, Reuters, Afghan Taliban, Haji Samad, World News

* Killings could hurt U.S.-Afghan partnership efforts * US embassy issues warning, restricts personnel movements * Nine ...

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Attacks In Kandahar Kill At Least 13

Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: Kandahar, Kandahar Attacks, Kandahar Explosions, Afghanistan Suicide Attacks, Afghanistan, Kandahar Suicide Attacks, Afghanistan Attacks, Afghanistan War, World News

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Officials say three explosions in a day have killed 13 people in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. The dead include a c...

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Move the Money Home

Sen. Claire McCaskill | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Helmand Province, Kandahar, Infrastructure, Infrastructure Investment, Senate, Highways, Afghanistan, Bridges, Claire McCaskill, Afghanistan War, Politics News

If America is going to build roads and bridges, I believe they ought to be built here, not in an unstable war zone.

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NATO Kills 30 Insurgents In Taliban Attack

AP | TAREK EL-TABLAWY | Posted 12.28.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgents attacked a convoy of Afghan and international troops on Friday in eastern Afghanistan, sparking a gunbattle that...

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G.I. Jew Explores Canada (in Kandahar)

Benari Lee | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Kandahar, Afghanistan, Canada, Comedy, Gijew, Kandahar Airfield, Video, Comedy News

Oh, Canada. Is there nothing in the world that you can't make better with your kind spirit and love of hockey?

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Afghanistan: Who Can Lead Kandahar?

Khalil Nouri | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Khalil Nouri, Kandahar, Ahmad Wali Karzai, Afghanistan, Pashtun, Afghan Tribal Politics, World News

The question now is; who should control all of Southern Afghanistan's tribal structure, and ultimately attempt to sooth tensions over what will soon become the full political formation and structure.

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Two Jews Walk Into a War

Benari Lee | Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Kandahar, Afghanistan, Uso, Jon Stewart, Comedy News

Jon Stewart's surprise visit not only boosted my morale as a soldier, but as a comedian. And I'm sure he was just as surprised to find a fellow Jew in the middle of a military base in Afghanistan.

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Mayor Of Kandahar Assassinated By Suicide Bomber, Say Afghan Officials

AP | Associated Press | Posted 09.25.2011

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — An assassin struck at the heart of President Hamid Karzai's political machine in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing...

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How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: Karzai, Iraq War, Libya, Kandahar, War on Terror, Middle East, Biometrics, Terrorism, Taliban, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Favorable opinion about the U.S. has plunged dismally since the early days of the Obama presidency, but it's not just in popularity terms that Washington has been racking up mind-boggling numbers in the no-friends business.

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Multiple Policemen Killed, 2 People Beheaded In Afghan Violence

Reuters | Posted 09.17.2011

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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, July 18 (Reuters) - Seven Afghan policemen were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in the southern city of Lashkar Gah ...

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Who Killed Ahmed Wali Karzai?

Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Kandahar, Assassination, Afghanistan-Assassinations-Ahmad-Wali-Karzai, Ahmad Wali Karzai, Afghanistan, World News

KABUL -- Around 11 a.m. this morning, Kandahar time, Ahmed Wali Karzai, the controversial half brother of President Hamid Karzai and the most powerful...

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7 U.S. Soldiers Killed In Taliban Bombing

AP | DEB RIECHMANN and MIRWAIS KHAN | Posted 07.26.2011

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Nine NATO service members were killed Thursday in Afghanistan, including seven U.S. troops among eight who died when a powe...

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Afghan in Exile: Taking a Stand Against the Karzai Cartel

Michael Hughes | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, White House, Kandahar, Kabul, Nato, Cia, Vietnam, Pakistan, Taliban, Afghanistan, Wikileaks, Holbrooke, Karzai, State Department, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Awk, Pashtuns, World News

That "our man in Kabul" heads a criminal state is anything but breaking news, yet what remains a mystery is America's continual support for the brothers Karzai as the U.S. neglects promoting Afghans whose power isn't derived from drugs, guns and money.

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Afghanistan: Reflections on the the Kill Team

Josh Shahryar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Karzai, Kandahar, Spiegel, US Military, The Kill Team, Afghanistan, Der Spiegel, Obama, Morlock, US Army, Hillary Clinton, World News

Incidents like Abu Ghraib have seriously desensitized the American people and the rest of the world to the extent that we've, in my opinion, ran out of anger.

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U.S. Soldier Gets 24 Years In Prison For Murders Of 3 Afghans

AP | ROBIN HINDERY | Posted 05.25.2011

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JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. — A U.S. soldier who pleaded guilty Wednesday to the murders of three Afghan civilians was sentenced to 24 years...

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Karzai Relative Killed In Night Raid

Reuters | Ismail Sameem and Matt Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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KABUL (Reuters) - An elderly relative of Afghan President Hamid Karzai was shot dead by NATO forces during a botched night raid in southern Afghan...

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Nation Building: Roads, Laws, Cops, Jobs And The Challenges Of The Afghan Surge

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan Counterinsurgency, Coin, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Surge, Kandahar-Afghanistan, US Troops Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, Afghanistan War, Marijuana, World News

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- "Take a look at this," Tom Symalla says, reaching down to yank at a piece of gravel poking out from the surface of Morghan Ro...

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Obama's War, One Year Later: 195 Million Say No to War

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Troop Casualties, Kandahar, Petraeus, Economy, War, Obama, War Spending, Robert Greenwald, Unemployment, Rethink Afghanistan, Mcchrystal, Civilian Casualties, War Costs, Marjah, Afghanistan, Defense Spending, Counterinsurgency, World News

Next month will mark the one-year anniversary of the launch of President Obama's escalated military campaign in Afghanistan. One year later, violence is still getting worse and costs are skyrocketing.

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Afghanistan: An Election Without Results

Abdulhadi Hairan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan, 2009, Election, Abdullah, Afghan Election, Hamid Karzai, Kandahar, Kabul, Election Fraud, Fraud, Terrorism, War, Tension, US, Un, World News

Everyone here is impatient to know the outcome of the much-discussed, controversial Afghan elections, but two months have passed and still no one has a clue about the real situation.

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