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  • June 2008

    • Taliban Jailbreak Frees 1,200

      New York Times  |  Jun 13, 08 11:02 PM CDT

      Taliban Jailbreak Frees 1,200

      (Newser) - Taliban fighters blasted into Kandahar's main prison last night and freed about 1,200 inmates, including 350 Taliban, the New York Times reports. Prisoners, including Taliban leaders, quickly flooded the streets and scattered into nearby villages. “It is very dangerous for security," a Kandahar politician said. "They are the most experienced killers and they all managed to escape." More »

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      Afghanistan  • Taliban  • prison  • jail  • prisoners  • Kandahar

    • First Lady Writes Home on Afghanistan

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 12, 08 1:34 PM CDT

      First Lady Writes Home on Afghanistan

      (Newser) - Laura Bush, attending an international fundraising conference for Afghanistan after visiting the war-torn country, documents the distance it's traveled in recovery and the challenges ahead in a Wall Street Journal column. Hailing “amazing progress,” the first lady writes of lowered infant mortality and increased access to health care and education. But, she warns, there's still “danger lurking in the Afghan hills.” More »

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      Afghanistan  • al-Qaeda  • Hamid Karzai  • Laura Bush

    • Afghan Cops Blow Up Huge Hashish Stash

      Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 12, 08 8:59 AM CDT

      Afghan Cops Blow Up Huge Hashish Stash

      (Newser) - Afghanistan police have made what is believed to be the biggest narcotics bust in history, the Guardian reports. Some 260 tons of hashish—worth $400 million—was found buried in trenches near the Pakistan border. The narcotics haul, which would have made as much as $14 million in profits for the Taliban, was so massive that an airstrike had to be called in to destroy the drugs. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Taliban  • drug trafficking  • Kandahar  • narcotics  • cannabis  • counternarcotics

    • US Releases Pakistan Border Clash Video

      Associated Press  |  Jun 12, 08 7:50 AM CDT

      US Releases Pakistan Border Clash Video

      (Newser) - US-led coalition forces have released a video shot from a surveillance drone showing a controversial clash on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Pakistan claims the engagement led to an airstrike that killed 11 of its troops, but the coalition says the footage proves that US and Afghan forces were simply returning fire after being attacked, the AP reports. More »

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      Pakistan  • Afghanistan  • Taliban  • Pakistan militants  • Afghan border  • spy drones

    • McCain: Bringing Troops Home 'Not Too Important'

      Talking Points Memo  |  Jun 11, 08 11:07 AM CDT

      McCain: Bringing Troops Home 'Not Too Important'

      (Newser) - John McCain said this morning on the "Today" show not only that can’t he provide an estimated date for US troops’ homecoming from Iraq, but that it’s “not too important. What’s important is the casualties.” The statement provoked an instantaneous response from Harry Reid, who called the comment “a crystal clear indicator that he just doesn’t get the grave national-security consequences of staying the course”—citing Afghanistan and the search for bin Laden. More »

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      John McCain  • Afghanistan  • troop withdrawal  • Osama bin Laden  • Harry Reid

    • Pakistan Condemns US Air Strike That Killed 11 Troops

      Washington Post  |  Jun 11, 08 9:46 AM CDT

      Pakistan Condemns US Air Strike That Killed 11 Troops

      (Newser) - At least 11 Pakistani soldiers and 10 other people were killed today in an ugly border incident that could strain US/Pakistani ties. US fighters reportedly launched an air strike inside Pakistan’s mountainous tribal area, backing up Afghan troops fighting Taliban forces. The matter was complicated, however, because Pakistani troops were apparently fighting alongside the Taliban, the Washington Post reports. More »

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      Pakistan  • Afghanistan  • Taliban  • airstrike  • Waziristan  • Afghan border  • Afghan Army  • Pakistan army

    • Bush Rues Gun-Slinger Image

      Times (UK)  |  Jun 11, 08 8:22 AM CDT

      Bush Rues Gun-Slinger Image

      (Newser) - Looking back on his years in office, President Bush admitted yesterday he regrets using phrases like "bring 'em on,” and “dead or alive,” which “indicated to people that I was, you know, not a man of peace." In "retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric," he tells the Times of London. More »

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      Iraq  • George W. Bush  • Iran  • Afghanistan  • war  • rhetoric  • multinationalism

    • German Sues Again to Nab CIA Agents

      BBC  |  Jun 9, 08 6:35 PM CDT

      German Sues Again to Nab CIA Agents

      (Newser) - A German man is suing his country to have 13 CIA agents extradited in a case of "extraordinary rendition," the BBC reports. Khaled al-Masri says they grabbed him by mistake in 2003 and dropped him in an Afghan prison, where he was tortured for 5 months. But Germany decided last year not to pursue the agents, when Washington said the move would threaten "American national interests." More »

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      Afghanistan  • Germany  • CIA  • rendition

    • Destroying Key Records Was Standard at Gitmo

      Globe and Mail  |  Jun 9, 08 9:30 AM CDT

      Destroying Key Records Was Standard at Gitmo

      (Newser) - Guantanamo Bay interrogators were urged to destroy notes from interviews with detainees, including Canadian Omar Khadr, documents suggest. Minimizing interrogation records “can minimize certain legal issues,” reads a Guantanamo operational manual for intelligence teams shown to Khadr’s lawyers. The case against Khadr is thought to be based largely on information from the interrogations, the Globe and Mail reports. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Guantanamo Bay  • Canada  • Guantanamo prisoners  • terror suspects  • terror trial  • Omar Khadr

    • In Afghanistan, Laura Bush Urges Support

      Reuters  |  Jun 8, 08 1:31 PM CDT

      In Afghanistan, Laura Bush Urges Support

      (Newser) - During an unannounced visit to Kabul today, Laura Bush urged the international community not to pull support from Afghanistan, highlighting successes in reconstruction and improved women’s rights, Reuters reports. The first lady's visit came even as Afghan, US, and NATO forces fight to contain a Taliban guerilla war in which the group and its al-Qaeda allies have vowed to increase suicide bombings to deter international aid to the country. More »

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      Afghanistan  • al-Qaeda  • Taliban  • War on Terror  • NATO  • Kabul  • Laura Bush  • international aid

  • May 2008

    • Afghan Appeals Death Sentence Over Women's Rights Charge

      Associated Press  |  May 18, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      Afghan Appeals Death Sentence Over Women's Rights Charge

      (Newser) - An Afghan journalism student who has been sentenced to death claims he was tortured into falsely confessing that he had written an article championing women's rights. "I would never let myself write such an article," said the student, 24, in court today in a desperate bid to overturn his sentence for insulting Islam. The proceedings offer a rare glimpse into the conservative religious impact on Afghanistan's developing legal system. His trial has been adjourned until next week. More »

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      Afghanistan  • torture  • women's rights  • death sentence

    • Pentagon to Build Giant Prison in Afghanistan

      New York Times  |  May 17, 08 6:05 AM CDT

      Pentagon to Build Giant Prison in Afghanistan

      (Newser) - The Pentagon is planning to build a huge new detention complex in Afghanistan, reports the New York Times , acknowledging that the US expects to hold prisoners there for many years to come. The 40-acre, $60-million facility at Bagram Air Force Base will replace the existing makeshift prison in a converted aircraft hangar, where more than 600 prisoners are held in wire pens; some have been in the deteriorating facility as long as five years. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Taliban  • US military  • Pentagon  • prison  • jail  • prisoners  • enemy combatants  • Bagram Air Force Base  • Bagram

    • 18 Afghans Killed by Bomber in a Burka

      Reuters  |  May 15, 08 4:59 AM CDT

      18 Afghans Killed by Bomber in a Burka

      (Newser) - A suicide bomber wearing a burka killed 18 people today in a western Afghanistan bazaar, Reuters reports. A spokesman for the Taliban, which claimed responsibility for the attack, said the bomber was a man. The past two years have been Afghanistan’s bloodiest since 2001, and some Western officials fear a return to anarchy in the country. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Taliban  • suicide bombing  • burka

    • US Sent 43,000 'Unfit' Troops to War

      USA Today  |  May 8, 08 12:03 PM CDT

      US Sent 43,000 'Unfit' Troops to War

      (Newser) - The US has sent more than 43,000 troops deemed medically unfit for combat to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, USA Today reports. Since 2003 soldiers deemed non-deployable by medical officers have shipped anyway, according to Pentagon documents, with unit commanders overruling doctors. “It is a consequence of the consistent churning of our troops,” says one veterans advocate. Among National Guard and reserve troops, 5%-7% were deemed unfit. More »

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      Iraq  • Afghanistan  • troop surge  • Department of Veterans Affairs  • veterans' health care

    • Marines Tread Lightly in Opium Poppy Fields

      Associated Press  |  May 7, 08 7:45 AM CDT

      Marines Tread Lightly in Opium Poppy Fields

      (Newser) - The US Marines have been battling the Taliban in the world's largest opium-growing region—and they're taking care not to damage the crop, the AP reports. Troops in Afghanistan are aware that the Taliban makes millions from the poppy harvest, but they also realize that destroying the locals' only source of income is likely to drive them into the arms of the militants. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Taliban  • US military  • US Marine Corps  • opium  • poppies

    • Pentagon May Boost US Troops in Afghanistan

      New York Times  |  May 3, 08 10:45 AM CDT

      Pentagon May Boost US Troops in Afghanistan

      (Newser) - The Pentagon may send 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan to make up for a NATO shortfall, administration officials say.The move would bring US troop levels there to 40,000 and require relocating American forces from Iraq, the New York Times reports. While NATO countries have promised to send about 2,000 additional troops, so far only France, which has pledged 700, has begun preparing forces. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Russia  • Afghanistan  • France  • US military  • Georgia  • Pentagon  • NATO  • Ukraine  • NATO summit  • NATO troops

    • Hit-and-Run Tactics Keeping Taliban Afloat

      Economist  |  May 2, 08 8:29 PM CDT

      Hit-and-Run Tactics Keeping Taliban Afloat

      (Newser) - The Taliban might hope Sunday's brazen attack on Afghan president Hamid Karzai signaled a new age of potency for the rebels. But although deaths from Taliban violence are on the rise, the Economist argues, the organization has not grown substantially—it has shifted its strategy away from conventional firefights to the “asymmetrical” warfare used by militants in Iraq and Israel. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Taliban  • insurgents  • NATO  • bombing  • suicide bombing  • Hamid Karzai

    • Al-Qaeda Involved in Karzai Shooting Plot: Kabul

      New York Times  |  May 1, 08 5:50 PM CDT

      Al-Qaeda Involved in Karzai Shooting Plot: Kabul

      (Newser) - The Afghan government today implicated al-Qaeda in the botched Sunday shooting attempt on President Hamid Karzai, the New York Times reports. Security forces captured or killed several suspects linked to the assassination plot. Among them was a man with links to militant commander Jalaluddin Haqqani, who is based in Pakistan’s border regions and has ties to al-Qaeda. More »

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      Pakistan  • Afghanistan  • al-Qaeda  • Hamid Karzai  • Pakistan militants  • Kabul  • assassination attempt  • suspected terrorists  • Afghan border

  • April 2008

    • Taliban Bombs Afghan Opium Task Force, Killing 18

      CNN  |  Apr 29, 08 1:23 PM CDT

      Taliban Bombs Afghan Opium Task Force, Killing 18

      (Newser) - A suicide bomber struck a meeting today of an Afghan poppy-eradication team, CNN reports, killing at least 18, including 11 police officers and seven civilians. Another 41 were injured in the attack in the eastern Nangarhar province; authorities said the incident was further proof of the rebel Taliban's involvement with the opium trade, believed to fund the insurgency. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Taliban  • suicide bombing  • Afghanistan war  • drug trafficking  • opium

    • Afghan Prez Escapes Assassination Attempt

      Reuters  |  Apr 27, 08 8:38 AM CDT

      Afghan Prez Escapes Assassination Attempt

      (Newser) - One person was killed and 11 wounded in a Taliban attack this morning in Kabul aimed at assassinating Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The president escaped the rockets and gunfire unhurt. The attack occurred as Karzai, government ministers, foreign diplomats, and military top brass gathered for the 16th anniversary of the fall of the Afghan communist government. All diplomats and cabinet members were safe, according to officials. More »

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      Afghanistan  • Taliban  • Hamid Karzai  • Kabul  • assassination attempt  • diplomat  • attack  • rocket fire

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