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War In Afghanistan

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Pentagon Forcing More Soldiers To Stay In Army

USA Today | Tom Vanden Brook | April 22, 2008 10:42 AM

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The Army has accelerated its policy of involuntary extensions of duty to bolster its troop levels, despite Defense Secretary Robert Gates' order last year to limit it, Pentagon records show. Gates directed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...

NATO Ammunition Drop Lands In Taliban Hands

AFP | April 17, 2008 10:54 AM

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NATO has admitted that a helicopter mistakenly dropped military supplies in the wrong place in southern Afghanistan and that they had subsequently disappeared. Afghan media said the ammunition including rocket-propelled grenades as well as food and water was seized by...

Pentagon To Cut War Tours Down To 12 Months

Associated Press | April 5, 2008 07:58 PM

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The Bush administration plans to announce next week that U.S. soldiers' combat tours will be reduced from 15 months to 12 months in Iraq and Afghanistan beginning later this summer, the Associated Press has learned. The decision, expected to get...

Taliban Again Threaten Spring Offensive As Car Bomb Kills At least 8

AP | AMIR SHAH | March 26, 2008

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KABUL, Afghanistan — A car bomb exploded Wednesday in a farmers' market in southern Afghanistan, killing eight civilians, as the Taliban warned it will use new techniques and draw on years of fighting experience to increase attacks this spring. Mohammad...

Bush "Envious" Of Soldiers Serving "Romantic" Mission In Afghanistan

Huffington Post | March 13, 2008 06:11 PM

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President Bush let his inner adventurer out while discussing the state of the war in Afghanistan with military and civilian personnel. While those in Afghanistan detailed the logistical and diplomatic problems via teleconference, the President took a much more whimsical...

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Afghanistan's Soldiers Back Up Obama's Debate Story

Think Progress | February 24, 2008 11:02 AM

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In last week's Democratic debate, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) said he was told by an Army captain that his platoon's resources in Afghanistan were shortchanged because of the Iraq war. Seeking to turn Obama's remarks into a political attack, Sen....

Murtha And The Cost Of The War

Washington Post | Walter Pincus | February 11, 2008 09:03 AM

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One longtime House member's views of the hidden costs of the war in Iraq are worth studying -- when the congressman is Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee on defense. Murtha was a Marine officer...

Time Runs Out For An Afghan Held By The U.S.

NY Times | Carlotta Gall | February 5, 2008 09:45 AM

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Abdul Razzaq Hekmati was regarded here as a war hero, famous for his resistance to the Russian occupation in the 1980s and later for a daring prison break he organized for three opponents of the Taliban government in 1999. But...

Al-Qaida Commander Moved Freely In Pakistan

Washington Post | Imtiaz Ali and Craig Whitlock | February 4, 2008 10:12 AM

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A Libyan al-Qaeda commander who was killed last week in northwestern Pakistan had lived there for years and, despite a $200,000 U.S. bounty on his head, felt secure enough to meet officials and visit hospitals, according to officials and residents...

US Military May Not Be Ready for Attack

Associated Press | Lolita Baldor | January 31, 2008 12:25 PM

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The U.S. military isn't ready for a catastrophic attack on the country, and National Guard forces don't have the equipment or training they need for the job, according to a report. Even fewer Army National Guard units are combat-ready today...

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Suicide Bomber Kills Afghan Official

AP | NOOR KHAN | January 31, 2008

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up Thursday in a mosque in southern Afghanistan, killing a deputy provincial governor and five other people in another blow to President Hamid Karzai's U.S.-backed government. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the...

Suicide Bomber Kills One, Wounds Four In Kabul

Reuters | January 31, 2008 10:17 AM

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A suicide bomber targeted an Afghan army bus in the centre of Kabul on Thursday, causing numerous casualties, officials said. One civilian was killed and four people were wounded, including an army officer, they said. A purported Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah...

Justice Department Eyes Firm's Donation To Afghan Diplomat

New York Sun | Joseph Goldstein | January 29, 2008 09:05 AM

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The Justice Department is probing the relationship between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a small investigative firm that helped American officials make a headline-grabbing arrest of an Afghan warlord. Under scrutiny are several payments that the firm, Rosetta Research...

DOD Wants $70 Billion More for Wars

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | January 28, 2008

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WASHINGTON — The White House will ask Congress next week for another $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an amount that would help cover operational costs only until early next year when the next administration takes over....

US Shift Seen to Pakistan, Afghanistan

AP | ROBERT BURNS | January 27, 2008

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WASHINGTON — In a shift with profound implications, the Bush administration is attempting to re-energize its terrorism-fighting war efforts in Afghanistan, the original target of a post-Sept. 11 offensive. The U.S. also is refocusing on Pakistan, where a regenerating al-Qaida...

Afghan President: The British Have Made Things Worse

The Times | David Charter, Anthony Loyd and Richard Beeston | January 25, 2008 09:39 AM

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Britain and Afghanistan fell out in spectacular fashion yesterday after President Karzai accused his British allies of bungling the military operation in Helmand and setting back prospects for the area by 18 months. Mr Karzai, Britain's key ally in Afghanistan,...

Attacks on Afghan Students Up Sharply

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | January 23, 2008

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KABUL, Afghanistan — The number of students and teachers killed in Taliban attacks has tripled in the past year in a campaign to close schools and force teenage boys to join the Islamic militia, Afghanistan's education minister says. While the...

Canadian Military Has Quit Turning Detainees Over To Afghans

NY Times | IAN AUSTEN | January 24, 2008 09:51 AM

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The Canadian military secretly stopped transferring prisoners to Afghanistan's government in November after Canadian monitors found evidence that they were being abused and tortured. The suspension, which began Nov. 5, was disclosed in a fax sent by government lawyers to...

Army Gets Fewer High School Grads in '07

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | January 22, 2008

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WASHINGTON — The percent of Army recruits with a high school diploma dropped last year, continuing a trend that has worsened since the start of the Iraq war, according to a report released Tuesday. National Priorities Project, a research group...

Violence Forces Afghan Kids From School

AP | RAHIM FAIEZ | January 21, 2008

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Around 300,000 Afghan children cannot attend school because of violence in Afghanistan's southern provinces, President Hamid Karzai told the parliament on its opening day Monday. The number of children unable to go to school is sharply up...

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