Commandos to Be Charged over Children's Deaths
27 August 2010
Commandos to Be Charged over Children's Deaths, ABC News, 27 August 2010
EXCERPT: "Charges will be laid against some Australian soldiers involved in a deadly night raid in which five children were killed in Afghanistan last year. Early last year six Afghans were killed during an Australian Special Operations Task Group raid targeting an insurgent leader in Uruzgan province. Four of the dead were small children. Two more children and...
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US Pullout Plans Give Taliban a Boost: Karzai
27 August 2010
US Pullout Plans Give Taliban a Boost in Afghanistan, Says Hamid Karzai, The Guardian, 27 August 2010
EXCERPT: "The Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, has criticised American plans to start withdrawing troops from the country next summer, saying that naming the date has given the Taliban insurgency 'a morale boost'. His remarks by the head of the US Marine Corps that plans to begin drawing down...
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Allied Forces Ramp Up Campaign Around Kandahar
27 August 2010
Allied Forces Ramp Up Campaign Against Insurgents Around Kandahar, Montreal Gazette, 26 August 2010
EXCERPT: "Worried Afghan villagers are packing up their belongings and fleeing unstable districts around Kandahar city as Canadian, U.S., and Afghan forces intensify a long-planned campaign against insurgents in the area, local sources have told Postmedia News. About 1,700 U.S. soldiers and Afghan army and police officers are sweeping...
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KBR Former Employee Pleads Guilty to Taking Bribes
27 August 2010
Afghanistan's Contractor's Former Employee Pleads Guilty to Taking Bribes, Bloomberg, 27 August 2010
EXCERPT: "A former employee of a U.S. contractor in Afghanistan pleaded guilty to accepting $200,000 in bribes in return for steering work to companies doing business with the U.S. military. Daniel Freeman, 38, of Hempstead, New York, told a U.S. magistrate judge in Manhattan that from 2007 to 2009, he accepted the gratuities...
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