Canadian Troops Complete Large Operation In Southern Afghanistan
28 November 2008
'Canadian Troops Complete Large Operation In Southern Afghanistan', CBC News, 28 November 2008
EXCERPT: "Canadian soldiers have just completed one of their largest operations ever in southern Afghanistan, killing 21 insurgent fighters and capturing several others, according to the Canadian military. Operation Janubi Tapu 2 ? or 'southern vulture' ? was aimed at reducing the ability of the insurgents to attack Kandahar...
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Afghanistan Not In Crisis: UN Security Council
28 November 2008
'', AFP, 28 November 2008
EXCERPT: "Afghanistan is not in a security crisis and disillusionment and recriminations about its situation should be avoided, a UN Security Council team said at the end of a three-day assessment tour. There were even reasons for 'cautious optimism,' the delegation told reporters before wrapping up a visit which comes as attacks linked to the insurgency...
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Afghans Riot In Kabul After Civilian Killed
28 November 2008
'', Swissinfo, 28 November 2008
EXCERPT: "Dozens of angry Afghans pelted police with stones after a U.S. military vehicle struck a van and one civilian was killed and three wounded in the Afghan capital Friday, officials and witnesses said. Seething resentment against the presence of some 65,000 foreign troops is growing in Afghanistan after scores of Afghan civilians have been killed...
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Britain To Consider Afghanistan Troop Request
28 November 2008
'', The Associated Press, 28 November 2008
EXCERPT: "Britain will carefully examine any request from the incoming U.S. administration to send more troops to Afghanistan, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said in an interview published Friday. The U.K. government had previously said it should first be up to other allies to provide additional personnel as NATO seeks to increase its...
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Drugs Finance Taliban War Machine, Says UN
27 November 2008
'', United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 27 November 2008
EXCERPT: "The Afghan Opium Survey 2008 released today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows that opium has become less important to the Afghan economy due to a decrease in cultivation, production and prices. However, opium finances the Taliban war economy and is a major source of revenue...
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French Aid Worker Pleads For Release On Kidnap Video
27 November 2008
'French Aid Worker Pleads For Release On Afghanistan Kidnap Video', The Telegraph UK, 27 November 2008
EXCERPT: "Dany Egreteau, the French aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan earlier this month has appeared in a video pleading for the payment of a ransom. In the film, Mr Egreteau is shown streaked with grime and held in chains, while unseen captors point the muzzles of two assault rifles at his head as he describes his captivity...
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Anger With Government After Suicide Attack
27 November 2008
'Anger With Government After Suicide Attack', The National (UAE), 28 November 2008
EXCERPT: "A suicide attack near the US Embassy in Kabul killed four people on Thursday, adding to a growing sense of anger and despair inside the capital. The car bomber detonated himself about 8.30am local time, just as US civilians were entering the massive fortified compound 100 metres away for Thanksgiving celebrations. Soon afterwards Afghans...
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Winter Of Hunger Looms In Afghanistan
27 November 2008
'', The Associated Press, 27 November 2008
EXCERPT: "The farmer squats barefoot on packed earth in front of his two-room mud house. He has looked at his bags of wheat, he says, and counted the days. Ghulam Sakhi, 50, says his family will run out of food in mid-January ? only a third of the way through Afghanistan's frigid winter. As the days shorten and the nights grow colder, this...
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Afghan Leader Complains US, NATO Aren't Succeeding
26 November 2008
'', The Associated Press, 26 November 2008
EXCERPT: "Afghanistan's president sharply critiqued the seven-year Afghan war Wednesday, complaining that U.S. and NATO troops haven't made life better. The criticism came a day after he accused foreign forces of undermining him with a 'parallel government' in the countryside. The back-to-back barbs aimed at the...
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Rocket Hits NATO Truck Depot In Pakistan
26 November 2008
'', The Associated Press, 26 November 2008
EXCERPT: "Suspected militants fired a rocket Wednesday that hit a terminal for trucks carrying supplies to NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan, underscoring the insurgents increasing hold over parts of northwest Pakistan. The rocket was one of two fired late in the day in the region's capital, Peshawar, said police officer Abdul Qadirwhich....
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