Afghanistan Says Confident Can Secure TAPI Gas Pipeline
22 September 2010
Afghanistan Says Confident Can Secure TAPI Gas Pipeline, Reuters, 22 September 2010
EXCERPT: "Afghanistan will secure a planned international gas pipeline through the Taliban heartland by burying sections underground and paying local communities to guard it, the mining minister said on Wednesday. Wahidullah Shahrani also said he was confident the project -- valued at $3.3 billion and which would run from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan...
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State of Affairs: Three Years After Nisoor Square
22 September 2010
, Human Rights First, 15 September 2010
EXCERPT: "On September 16, 2007, Blackwater Worldwide (now Xe) private security contractors working for the U.S. Department of State killed 17 unarmed civilians and wounded 24 more in an unprovoked incident in Baghdad's Nisoor Square. A political firestorm immediately ensued...
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3 Journalists Arrested in Afghanistan
22 September 2010
, The New York Times, 22 September 2010
EXCERPT: "Three Afghan journalists were arrested during raids on their homes in the early hours of Monday and Wednesday on suspicion of collaborating with the Taliban, according to the United States military. The arrests of the journalists came about because 'coalition and Afghan forces have a responsibility to interdict the activities of these insurgent propaganda...
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25 Militants Killed in Attack on Afghan-NATO Camp
22 September 2010
, The Associated Press, 22 September 2010
EXCERPT: "Insurgents attacked a NATO and Afghan army outpost in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistan border and at least 25 of the militants were killed in the resulting skirmish, officials said Wednesday. Troops at the combat outpost in Spera district of Khost province returned fire with mortars late Tuesday, killing 25 to 30 insurgents, NATO...
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