UK Blasts NATO Allies Over Afghan Troop Offers
15 January 2009
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EXCERPT: "Defence Secretary John Hutton criticised the failure of fellow NATO countries to send enough troops to Afghanistan, saying on Thursday that 'warm words' alone are not enough. Other nations cannot keep relying on the United States to shoulder the main burden in Afghanistan, Hutton said in his sharpest comments to date. With nearly...
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Afghanistan Is Going To Strengthen Security Forces
15 January 2009
'Afghanistan Is Going To Strengthen Security Forces', Trend News, 15 January 2009
EXCERPT: "The defense ministry has announced that security forces will be strengthened this year. General Azimi, spokesperson for Afghan defense minister said that Terrorist sanctuaries and shelters brought at bay by Afghan US backed forces. The war is still going on, but by adding to their numbers and improving firepower, the security forces...
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US Investigation Of Airstrike Deaths "Deeply Flawed": HRW
15 January 2009
'Afghanistan: US Investigation Of Airstrike Deaths "Deeply Flawed"', Human Rights Watch, 15 January 2009
EXCERPT: "The US military's investigation into deadly and controversial airstrikes in Azizabad in Afghanistan in August 2008 was deeply flawed, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. On October 1, 2008, the Department of Defense published a summary of a report by...
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Iran Said To Resume Deportation Of Afghan Refugees
15 January 2009
'Iran Said To Resume Deportation Of Afghan Refugees', Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, 15 January 2009
EXCERPT: "Iran has resumed deporting Afghan refugees despite pledging to stop doing so, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reports. Afghan Refugee Affairs Ministry spokesman Shams-u-Din Hamid said that 9,000 Afghans have already been expelled from Iran this year. 'As in the past, every time the Islamic Republic of Iran...
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