U.S. Raid May Have Killed Briton Held by Taliban: UK PM
12 October 2010
, The New York Times, 11 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Prime Minister David Cameron said Monday that a British aid worker killed in an American rescue raid in Afghanistan last week may have been killed by a grenade detonated by a United States special forces unit ? not by a suicide bomber's vest from her Taliban captors, as the American command in Afghanistan suggested when it confirmed...
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More than 4,000 Complaints Filed over Afghan Elections
12 October 2010
More than 4,000 Complaints in Afghan Poll, Reuters, 10 October 2010
EXCERPT: "More than 4,000 formal complaints have been submitted about Afghanistan's parliamentary poll, the election watchdog said on Sunday, with more than half of those able to affect the final results. Ahmad Zia Rafat, a commissioner on the U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) said 175 candidates out of a total of around 2,500 had been accused of...
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12 October 2010
Afghan President Confirms Contact With Taliban, CNN, 10 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Attempting to advance his nation's peace progress with insurgents, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said unofficial negotiations with the Taliban have been taking place and hopes the formation of a peace council will further those efforts. 'We have been talking to the Taliban as countryman to countryman, talk in that manner,' Karzai told CNN's...
The Trust Deficit: The Impact of Local Perceptions on Policy in Afghanistan
12 October 2010
[pdf], Open Society Foundations // Regional Policy Initiative on Afghanistan and Pakistan // Soros Foundation Network via the Human Security Gateway, 7 October 2010
EXCERPT: "Despite the outpourings of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of troops over the last eight years, many Afghans are angry and resentful at the international presence in Afghanistan....
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