Suicide Bombers Attack Afghan Police Compound
07 June 2010
, The Associated Press, 7 June 2010
EXCERPT: "At least three suicide bombers attacked a police training center Monday in southern Afghanistan's largest city, but the assailants were killed before they could inflict any casualties, officials said. One of the attackers drove an explosives-laden car up to the gate of the center and detonated the bomb, blowing a hole in the compound wall,...
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With US Aid, Warlord Builds Afghan Empire
07 June 2010
, The New York Times, 5 June 2010
EXCERPT: "The most powerful man in this arid stretch of southern Afghanistan is not the provincial governor, nor the police chief, nor even the commander of the Afghan Army. It is Matiullah Khan, the head of a private army that earns millions of dollars guarding NATO supply convoys and fights Taliban insurgents alongside American Special Forces. In little more...
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Army Plans $100 Million Afghanistan Special Ops HQ
07 June 2010
, The Associated Press, 5 June 2010
EXCERPT: "The Army is planning to spend as much as $100 million to expand its Special Operations headquarters in northern Afghanistan, evidence of its increasing reliance on covert operations. The project is one of many in the Obama administration, as it seeks billions in budget increases to counter expanded terror threats from abroad. It also comes...
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Kremlin "Unhappy" with Antidrug Efforts in Afghanistan
07 June 2010
Kremlin "Unhappy" with Antidrug Efforts in Afghanistan, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, 6 June 2010
EXCERPT: "At an Asia security conference in Singapore today, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov told delegates that narcotics from Afghanistan are a threat to Europe, Asia, and the United States and urged NATO forces in Afghanistan to step up the campaign to eradicate opium poppy cultivation there. 'We are...
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