Coalition Forces Target Haqqani Network
09 September 2008
'', China View, 9 September 2008
EXCERPT: "The U.S.-led Coalition forces on Monday detained two suspected militants while targeting the Haqqani terrorist network during an operation in eastern Afghanistan's Khost province, said a Coalition statement released here on Tuesday [9 September 2008]. The operation targeted a suspected Haqqani militant in Mando Zayi district of Khost who is suspected of...
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09 September 2008
'Germany Discovers A War In Afghanistan', Spiegel Online, 9 September 2008
EXCERPT: "For years, Germans have preferred to see their country's presence in Afghanistan as armed development assistance. That myth is now becoming more difficult to maintain as the violence spreads to the north where the Germans are based. Seen from the air, downtown Kunduz looks like a large board game, a series of symmetrically interlocking rectangles...
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Self-Immolation On The Rise Among Women
09 September 2008
'Self-Immolation On The Rise Among Women', IRIN News, 9 September 2008
EXCERPT: "Over the past six months, at least 47 self-immolation cases have been recorded by Herat city hospital alone, of whom seven were saved but 40 died. 'Ninety percent of the women who commit self-immolation die at hospital due to deep burns and fatal injuries,' said Arif Jalai, a dermatologist at the Herat hospital. Almost all the women had doused themselves...
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US Troops Boosted in Afghanistan
09 September 2008
'', AFP, 9 September 2008
EXCERPT: "With less than five months left in his term, President George W. Bush was to announce Tuesday he is ordering a modest US troop withdrawal from Iraq and ramping up force levels in Afghanistan. Bush, in remarks prepared for delivery to the US National Defense University and released by the White House late Monday, was also to lump Pakistan in with both...
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