Pentagon to Solicit Bids on Contract to Train Afghan Police
16 April 2010
, The Washington Post, 16 April 2010
EXCERPT: "The Pentagon said Thursday that it would solicit bids for a $1 billion contract to train Afghan police officers after an oversight agency said the contract should not previously have been awarded to a North Carolina firm in a non-competitive process. David Sedney, a deputy assistant secretary at the Defense Department,...
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Contractor Deaths Accelerate as They Outnumber Soldiers
16 April 2010
Contractor Deaths Accelerating in Afghanistan as They Outnumber Soldiers, ProPublica, 16 April 2010
EXCERPT: "A recent Congressional Research Service analysis obtained by ProPublica looked at the number of civilian contractors killed in Afghanistan in recent months. It's not pretty. Of the 289 civilians killed since the war began more than eight years ago, 100 have died in just the last six months. That's a reflection of...
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Taliban Cooperation with Al Qaeda "is at the Highest Limits": Siraj Haqqani
16 April 2010
Taliban Cooperation with Al Qaeda "is at the Highest Limits": Siraj Haqqani, The Long War Journal, 15 April 2010
EXCERPT: "The top leader of the dangerous Haqqani Network operating in eastern Afghanistan said that al Qaeda fighters are welcome to fight alongside the Taliban, and that his forces control 90 percent of the areas under his command. Siraj Haqqani, the military commander of the deadly Haqqani Network, a Taliban group that operates...
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Five Afghan UN Workers Missing in North
16 April 2010
, The Associated Press, 16 April 2010
EXCERPT: "The United Nations said five of its Afghan employees were missing Friday amid reports their vehicles were hijacked in the same northern province where fierce fighting killed four German soldiers and three Afghan police the previous day. Word of the U.N. workers' disappearance in Baghlan province followed twin bombings Thursday targeting foreign...
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