Taliban Use Voter Cards As "Visas"
12 May 2009
'Taliban Use Voter Cards As "Visas"', The Globe and Mail, 12 May 2009
EXCERPT: "Taliban fighters are using recently acquired voter identification cards as makeshift passports to smooth border crossings from Pakistan and ease travel between cities in Kandahar's southern provinces. When produced, the voter registration cards give fighters an appearance of legitimacy, they say, and help them 'trick' Afghan...
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Afghanistan War Spending To Double: Australia
12 May 2009
'Afghanistan War Spending To Double: Australia', The Australian, 12 May 2009
EXCERPT: "Defence spending will jump by 21 per cent to $26.6 billion next year but the Rudd Government will still struggle to meet its pledge to lift the defence budget by 3 per cent in real terms over the next four years. A massive $2.4 billion boost to spending on defence equipment, plus a doubling of spending on the war in Afghanistan, provide the...
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Afghan Girls Ill In Third School Poisoning
12 May 2009
'Afghan Girls Ill In Third School Poisoning', Reuters, 12 May 2009
EXCERPT: "Five young girls slipped briefly into comas and nearly 100 were taken to hospital after a gas attack on their school on Tuesday, the third in a series of such incidents north of Kabul, Afghan officials said. The early morning mass-poisoning at Qazaaq school was likely the work of Taliban sympathizers hostile to girls' education, the head of security...
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At Least Eight Dead In Taliban Attack
12 May 2009
'', The New York Times, 12 May 2009
EXCERPT: "Ten Taliban suicide bombers stormed two government buildings in the eastern province of Khost on Tuesday in coordinated attacks, killing at least eight people, government officials said. The assault began at about 10 a.m. local time, when a suicide car bomb exploded at the gate of the provincial governor's office in Khost city, the provincial capital,...
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