Army Crisis As 10,000 Troops Are Unfit To Fight
23 June 2008
'Army crisis as 10,000 troops are unfit to fight', The Telegraph, 22 June 2008
EXCERPT: "Senior officers fear that the cumulative effect of 'tour fatigue' ? the pressure of supplying troops to combat zones continuously for over five years ? is beginning to take its toll on the Army. One in 10 soldiers are now classified as unfit for operations, a higher proportion than at any time since the start of the Iraq war in 2003. The Ministry...
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Stream Of Deportees From Iran Continues
23 June 2008
'Stream Of Deportees From Iran Continues', Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), 23 June 2008
EXCERPT: "About 490,000 Afghans have been deported from Iran over the past 18 months, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and Afghanistan's Ministry of Refugees and Returnees (MoRR) told IRIN. 'One hundred and forty thousand undocumented Afghans have been deported so far in 2008, and some 350,000 were deported in 2007,' said Salvatore Lombardo,...
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Teaching In Kandahar Requires Bravery
23 June 2008
Rosie Dimanno, '', Toronto Star, 23 June 2008
EXCERPT: "An Internet caf? for Afghan women only: What a concept. Ehsanullah Ehsan, with the help of some benevolent Canadians, took the idea from concept to reality. Just as he fashioned a vocational training academy out of little more than personal initiative, with seed money from an Ottawa couple looking for a charitable project that had 'special meaning.'...
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23 June 2008
'', The Raw Story, 23 June 2008
EXCERPT: "The US Embassy in Albania approved an effort to conceal the illegal Chinese origin of ammunition provided to troops in Afghanistan under a Pentagon contract by a just-indicted 22-year-old Florida man, according to an investigation by the House Oversight Committee. In a 10-page letter to Secretary of State Condoleeza...
Former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Warns NATO Could Fail In Afghanistan
23 June 2008
'Manley Warns NATO Could Fail In Afghanistan', CTV News, 22 June 2008
EXCERPT: "Former Liberal deputy prime minister John Manley said Sunday that unless NATO makes a more "serious" troop commitment in Afghanistan, its mission in the war-torn country could fail. Manley, who led a government-appointed panel that outlined conditions for Canada's continued military commitment in Afghanistan, said the mission is a real test for...
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"Gulf Countries Must Be Involved In Normalising FATA"
23 June 2008
'"Gulf Countries Must Be Involved In Normalising FATA"', Daily Times Pakistan, 22 June 2008
EXCERPT: "Any future development plans for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) should include the Gulf states as an integral partner with a leading role, as the locals would resist attempts by militants to sabotage such programmes since they would perceive them as an ?Islamic initiative?, according to a commentary published...
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US Reporters Say Networks Put Wars On Back Burner
23 June 2008
'', The New York Times, 23 June 2008
EXCERPT: "Getting a story on the evening news isn?t easy for any correspondent. And for reporters in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is especially hard, according to Lara Logan, the chief foreign correspondent for CBS News. So she has devised a solution when she is talking to the network. 'Generally what I say is, 'I?m holding the armor-piercing R.P.G.,''...
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Battling Drug Addiction In Afghanistan
23 June 2008
'Battling Drug Addiction In Afghanistan', BBC News, 23 June 2008
EXCERPT: "When Rahim Ahmedy was an Afghan refugee in neighbouring Iran, he and his friends would go on three-day picnics. They would slaughter sheep for feasting and take drugs such as opium and heroin. At first the 30-year-old thought it was fun. But then it took over his life. He returned to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taleban in 2001 with all his worldly possessions...
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Wheat From Canada Helps Poor Afghans Deflect High Prices
23 June 2008
'Wheat From Canada Helps Poor Afghans Deflect High Prices', Canada.com, 23 June 2008
EXCERPT: "Bakht Bibi stares a visitor straight in the eye - highly unusual when it's a foreign male meeting an Afghan woman in conservative Kandahar - and describes 'the pain in my heart.' 'Our family has had days when we ate nothing,' says the female head of a household of 10. She has had to beg and borrow to feed her family, and even when there's food,...
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Kandahar-Area Region Stable Again: Afghan Officials
23 June 2008
'Kandahar-Area Region Stable Again: Afghan Officials', CBC News, 23 June 2008
EXCERPT: "Residents can now safely return to the fertile Arghandab region near Kandahar, a week after Canadian and Afghan troops moved into the area to clear it of Taliban militants, Afghan officials said Monday [23 June 2008]. Commanders with the Afghan army and police, who held a joint press conference in Afghanistan on Monday, said roads in the Arghandab...
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