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1 hr ago | Q13.com KCPQ TV

NATO: Body of second missing US paratrooper found in western Afghanistan

NATO says the body of a second U.S. paratrooper missing after being swept away by a fast-moving current while on an airdrop resupply mission Nov.

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5 hrs ago | Hindustan Times

Bomb explodes in Kabul, no injuries

A bomb exploded in a trash can in the centre of the Afghan capital on Saturday causing little damage and no injuries, the Interior Ministry said.

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9 hrs ago | New York Times

Obama's Speech on Afghanistan to Envision Exit

President Obama plans to lay out a time frame for winding down the American involvement in the war in Afghanistan when he announces his decision this week to send more forces, senior administration officials said Sunday.

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14 hrs ago | New York Times

Britain Presses Pakistan and Afghanistan on Militants

Highlighting themes likely to be taken up by President Obama in his military policy speech on Tuesday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain has demanded that Afghanistan and Pakistan match plans for increased allied troop levels in Afghanistan by taking tough actions of their own, including, in Pakistan, a stepped-up effort to capture Osama bin ...

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Sun Nov 29, 2009

Squamish Chief

West turned blind eye to corruption, former Afghan narcotics minister says

Corruption infecting the Afghan government's highest levels, coupled with unhelpful Western meddling along the way, crippled efforts to effectively battle the country's burgeoning opium trade, says the country's former counter-narcotics minister.

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Marines to Target Taliban

KABUL – Days after President Barack Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin final preparations to deploy to southern Afghanistan and renew an assault on a Taliban stronghold that stalled earlier this year amid a troop shortage and political pressure from the Afghan government, senior U.S.

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San Jose Mercury News

Afghan gov't: 26 militants killed along border

Afghan officials said Sunday that 26 militants were killed in a gun battle with border security guards along the Pakistan frontier.

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Weekday Magazine - Azerbaijan

Thirty Taliban Reported Killed In Air Strike

About 30 Taliban insurgents were killed in a NATO-led air strike in eastern Afghanistan after they attacked an Afghan police post, a police official and the alliance said today.

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WDAF

US soldiers in Afghanistan seeking a slice of home eat Thanksgiving turkeys they raised

As daylight faded and the winter cold set in, soldiers huddled inside a crude wooden hut to tuck into Thanksgiving turkeys the unit itself had fattened and to give thanks for having survived a year of combat in Afghanistan.

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Sat Nov 28, 2009

9NEWS

Coffman, other lawmakers, skeptical of troop increase in Afghanistan

The week before a major presidential speech on Afghanistan strategy, Gen. Stanley McChrystal told lawmakers touring the combat zone that it could take until almost 2013 to stabilize the country and allow the drawdown of U.S. forces.

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The News

Karzai steps up calls on Taliban for peace talks

Saturday, November 28, 2009 KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday marked the Muslim festival of Eid-ul-Azha with a call on the Taliban to join peace talks.

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StarNewsOnline.com

Afghans Offer Jobs to Taliban Rank and File if They Defect

The American-backed campaign to persuade legions of Taliban gunmen to stop fighting got under way here recently, in an ornate palace filled with Afghan tribal leaders and one very large former warlord leading the way.

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The Boston Globe

12 inmates escape from western Afghan prison

A dozen prisoners escaped jail through a tunnel they dug from their cell to the outside in western Afghanistan, police said Saturday.

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TwinCities.com

2 Afghans allege abuse at U.S. site

Two Afghan teenagers held in U.S. detention north of Kabul earlier this year said they were beaten by American guards, photographed naked, deprived of sleep and held in solitary confinement in concrete cells for at least two weeks while undergoing daily interrogation about their alleged links to the Taliban.

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Fri Nov 27, 2009

AlertNet

FEATURE-Afghan mine victims face hard, but hopeful life

Moussa Khan had just been making his way back from a long day's work at a copper mine south of Kabul thinking about the son he lost a week earlier to a landmine blast.

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Gulf Times

Merkel ally resigns over Afghan air strike scandal

A senior ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has quit the cabinet after being accused of covering up details of an air strike that killed civilians in Afghanistan when he was defence minister.

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Calgary Sun

Michael Dentandt Release Colvin's e-mails

Let's see the e-mails. All of them, unredacted. Post them on a website. Then we'll know who's lying and who isn't. Until Canadians see Richard Colvin's reports to Ottawa in 2006 and 2007, which he says contained explicit warnings that detainees turned over to Afghan forces by Canadian soldiers were routinely tortured, we won't know the truth.

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CANOE

Taliban leader rules out talks with Karzai

A helicopter belonging to an international military contractor has gone missing in Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.

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Newsday.com

US buildup seen as helpful in 2 Afghan provinces

In this Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 file photo, U.S. Army 1st Lt. Kevin Elllenbrock, fom Cincinnati , Ohio , belonging to Alpha troop of the 3-71 Cavalry squadron, left, conducts a survey with townspeople near the town of Baraki Barak, Logar province, Afghanistan .

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Krishna not too keen to meet Pak foreign minister

Unhappy with the behaviour of Pakistan over terrorism, particularly the Mumbai attacks, India [ Images ] is not too keen to have a foreign ministerial meeting with Pakistan, even though both Union Foreign Minister S M Krishna [ Images ] and his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi are in Port of Spain in to attend an international summit.

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