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- US-led forces kill 70 Taliban rebels
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  "Operation Mountain Thrust", a push deep into the Taliban's southern heartland, has accounted for 100 insurgents killed over the past three days. More than 1,000 people, including more than 40 foreign soldiers, have died this year. Around 400 were killed in May alone. Afghanistan is suffering its worst spell of violence since U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban in 2001. It comes ahead of NATO troops taking over military control in the violent south from the United States.
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- Here's a Way to Support the Troops Other Than Sending Them to Kill and Die for Oil Profits
  Posted by Billbar from After Downing Street
  Bobby Muller, Director of Veterans for America, says support our troops by backing Amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2007, S. 276 (http://www.veteransforamerica.org)
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- Knitting together an Afghan strategy.
  Posted by Billbar from Slate
  NATO's strategy in Afghanistan is analysed. Doesn't go into the theory of asymmetrical warfare deeply, but gives some honest assessments not seen much if at all in the mainstream media.
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- UN report accuses Afghan MPs of torture and massacres
  Posted by Billbar from Guardian UK
  A 220-page report by the UN high commissioner for human rights, which the Guardian has obtained, details atrocities committed by communist, mujahideen, Soviet and Taliban fighters over 23 years of conflict. Originally scheduled for release in January 2005, the report's publication has been delayed repeatedly due to sensitivities over identifying former warlords still in positions of power. Co-author Patricia Gossman said the report was "not a bill of indictment" but a "truth telling" exercise to help Afghans confront their past. She said she was "bewildered" by the delays in publishing. "It sends the wrong signals. This is something Afghans wanted to see and it's really disappointing we couldn't live up to that."
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- Afghanistan's Second Intifada
  Posted by Damianmann from Informationclearinghouse.
  The Taliban have reclaimed southern Afghanistan, reconstruction has been miniscule, and there’s been no attempt to establish security beyond the capital of Kabul. Afghanistan continues to languish in grinding poverty with less clean water and electricity than before the war. It is a failed narco-state with 99% of the countryside under the iron-grip of the regional warlords and drug-kingpins.
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- Nato promises new Afghan tactics
  Posted by Billbar from BBC News
  "I will use military power not necessarily just to defeat the Taleban but just as importantly to secure the future of their villages and their localities," Lt Gen David Richards said. The BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul says that for the last four years many people in southern and eastern Afghanistan have been complaining of aggressive tactics used by American troops.
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- U.S. Warplanes Bomb Afghan Religious School - TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime
  Posted by Damianmann from Talk Left
  U.S. warplanes hunting Taliban fighters bombed a religious school and mud-brick homes in southern on Monday, killing dozens of suspected militants and 17 civilians in one of the deadliest strikes since the American-led invasion in 2001.
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Jeff comments on:
Obama meets with Karzai, pledges aid to Afghanistan

It does worry me a bit that we’re going to be spending billions in Afghanistan once we leave Iraq … but at least it’s a place that in the past HAS HARBORED Al Qaida militant training camps and Osama bin Laden.

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4:13 pm 7/21/08
papadavid comments on:
Military Chief: US Doesn't Have Enough Troops To Send To Afghanistan on The Huffington Post

here’s the video (i think):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExPiBn5j2ro

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1:24 pm 7/04/08
theangryindian comments on:
22-year old with history of domestic abuse reportedly was awarded $300m Pentagon contract to supply

Sounds like any other average decision made by this administration.

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5:02 pm 3/27/08
Jeff comments on:
22-year old with history of domestic abuse reportedly was awarded $300m Pentagon contract to supply

Rep. Henry Waxman says Congress will investigate the contract.
Shouldn’t incompetence be an impeachable offense?

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3:42 pm 3/27/08
Jeff comments on:
22-year old with history of domestic abuse reportedly was awarded $300m Pentagon contract to supply

Here is a link to the original New York Times story:

Supplier Under Scrutiny on Arms for Afghans

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3:40 pm 3/27/08
admin comments on:
National security agencies have failed in Iraq, Afghanistan (3/10/08) -- www.GovernmentExecutive.com

this sucks

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8:12 am 3/15/08
chaleur comments on:
Canada and Obama and the world

The power to move hearts and minds around-the-world through words and actions at home is a manifestation of true leadership genius.

It’s part of what gives Barack Obama the potential to be a truly transcending historical leader.

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10:25 am 2/14/08

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