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Afghanistan Security

Sam Stein

US Spends Ten Times More On Afghanistan Than Airport Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics

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The botched Christmas airliner attack, followed by a steady stream of alarming reports about the vulnerability of airports, has prompted questions abo...

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Afghanistan UN Security Lapse Is Inexcusable: Foreign Correspondent

True/Slant | Michael Hastings | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

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I try to avoid posts like this, weighing in with a strongly held opinion about something I have no first hand information of. The initial reports are ...

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Has Kandahar Already Fallen?

Erica Gaston | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

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Erica Gaston

With Taliban control present in large swaths of Afghanistan, the question is less where is this situation going, but where has it already gone? And the critical follow-up: Is there a way to turn it around?

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Afghanistan Security Contracts Make Millions For Texan Couple

Mother Jones | Daniel Schulman | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

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It was March 2002, and Del and Barbara Spier were flat broke. The Texas couple, grandparents of five and owners of a small, Houston-based private inve...

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In Eastern Afghanistan Roadside Bomb Kills 10 Civilians

AP | SEBASTIAN ABBOT | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

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KABUL — One roadside bomb killed 10 civilians Wednesday in a van along a route used by foreign troops in eastern Afghanistan while another wound...

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Hamid Karzai's Call For Early Election Rejected By Afghan Election Commission

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ and JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

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KABUL — The Afghan election commission rejected President Hamid Karzai's request to move the presidential elections to the spring, saying the co...

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Afghan Road Bombings, Kidnappings Doubled In 2008, Says US Diplomat

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 01.30.2009 | World

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KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S.-led coalition forces killed 11 militants during an operation just outside the Afghan capital, the coalition said Wedne...

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