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Daily Mail News —Pastor Terry Jones - who has about 50 followers - said he wonders how many times the U.S. can back down. 'We should address radical Islam and send a very clear warning they are not retaliate,' he said.
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Reuters UK —
LONDON (Reuters) - A British diplomat who is reported to have clashed with the United States over Afghan policy is stepping down as the UK's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, the government said on Wednesday.
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Anglican Mainstream —By Joel Brinkley, SFGate (Hat Tip: David Lindsay) Western forces fighting in southern Afghanistan had a problem. Too often, soldiers on patrol passed an older man walking hand-in-hand with a pretty young boy. Their behavior suggested he was not the boy's father. Then, British soldiers found that young Afghan men were actually trying to "touch and [...]
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Daily Mail News —The unnamed lecturer wrote an impassioned email to Rev Terry Jones at the weekend describing 'boisterous protesters' condemning the pastor outside his classroom.
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Metro.co.uk —
Soldiers' lives could be put at risk by the Reverend of a small American church who plans to burn copies of the Koran on September 11.
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HeyUGuys —
DogWoof have just sent us the brand new trailer for their new documentary, Restrepo. The story follows a platoon U.S. soldiers fighting in the Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley and stays with them to give us a first hand look, or at least a glimpse at what fighting in Afghanistan is really like. Synopsis: RESTREPO is a [...]
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Daily Mail News —Captain Andrew Griffiths, 25, was leading his troops in the Nahr-e Saraj area of Helmand province when he was caught in an explosion last month.
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Daily Mail News —A soldier who died on Sunday of injuries sustained in Afghanistan was revealed yesterday as being the son of a serving brigadier.
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BBC —
The UK's most senior diplomat in Afghanistan has stepped down with immediate effect, the Foreign Office says.
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The Independent —
The UK's special representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan has stepped down with immediate effect, the Foreign Office said today.
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The Telegraph —
Britain's envoy to Afghanistan, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, has quit with immediate effect amid reports of a clash with Nato and US officials over the correct strategy on fighting the Taliban.
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BBC News —
One of Britain's most prestigious think tanks calls for fundamental change to Western policy in Afghanistan.
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BBC —
One of Britain's most prestigious think tanks calls for fundamental change to Western policy in Afghanistan.
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The Guardian —The departure of Britain's special envoy reflects a loss of momentum behind political and diplomatic efforts to end the war This is the second time Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles's departure as the UK's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan has been announced. On the first occasion, back in June, he informed the new foreign secretary, William Hague, that he barely had a job any more. It involved...
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The Guardian —Relatives of those who have died or who are serving to present letter to parliament before MPs debate on conflict's future Military families will deliver a letter to parliament tomorrow calling for troops to be pulled out of the "unwinnable" war in Afghanistan. More than 30 people who have either lost loved ones there or have sons and daughters serving have written to MPs ahead of tomorrow's...
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buzz99 —
Until a few weeks ago, Julian Assange was riding high. The self-appointed paladin of uncomfortable truth had just whipped up a media storm in Washington, revealing 70,000 classified Pentagon documents that portrayed the U.S. war in Afghanistan in a way often at odds with the official cheerleading. To further rile the intelligence bureaucracy, his WikiLeaks organization was promising that 13,000 more...
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buzz99 —
Though President Barack Obama last week gave his "Combat Operations in Iraq Are Over" speech from the Oval Office, in the hope that anxious Americans would feel that nationally unnerving, messy foreign military entanglements are being reduced, his focus should have been Afghanistan - where the hemorrhage of U.S. interests and resources is only worsening. Despite acceding to the Pentagon's surge in...
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Western powers must change strategy in Afghanistan, focusing on al-Qaeda militants and cutting troop numbers instead of pursuing failed attempts at nation-building, a top think-tank said on Tuesday. Urging a major rethink of President Barack Obama's surge policy, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said the international community was "pinned down" as the war entered...
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