The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
The defence company said sales have benefited from demand for the armoured vehicles used by the military in Irag and Afghanistan.
Peace Action Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Those who died in Iraq from Oct 5 to 11: Cpl Reuben Fernandez III 22 Abilene TX Col Michael Stahlman 45 Chevy Chase MD Sgt William Rudd 27 Madisonville KY 6 were seriously wounded. 16 were returned to occupation. 144 Iraqi brothers and sisters were killed. In Afghanistan, killed was Cpl Jason Karella 20 Anchorage AK Cf: www.icasualties.org [...]
War News Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
The US has worked to increase the professionalism of the Afghan police. But in several provinces around Kabul, locals say the Taliban are far more effective at keeping order. Andy Nelson/The Christian Science Monitor/FILE Some Afghans Live Under Taliban Rule – And Prefer It -- Christian Science Monitor In provinces just south of Kabul, the insurgents have a shadow government that polices roads and...
Amused Cynicism (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
Guess who’s the biggest player in Afghanistan’s heroin trafficking business? None other than the president, Hamid Karzai: Drawing almost entirely upon sources within the U.S. government in Washington, the Times fingered Ahmed Wali Karzai as the biggest drug trafficker in Kandahar Province. Why was this story not reported from Afghanistan? Because it is well understood by the [...]
PRI's The World - (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
Wounded soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq could soon find themselves refused charitable help due to a lack of cash to cope with the high casualty rates it has been warned.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
In this week's show: economic meltdown and the US elections, "downward spiral" in Afghanistan, tribal militias in Pakistan, India's fatal roads, political impasse in Zimbabwe, good PR for Gomorrah, Letter from Mexico
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
Michael Shank: The US pursuit of a military solution in Afghanistan isn't working. We need to negotiate with the country's leaders
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
From The Telegraph: "Why," asks David Loyn in this timely book, has holding Afghanistan always been "far more difficult than taking it?" It's a pertinent question. In 2001 the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan were forced out in a relatively bloodless...
CNN (Free subscription) | 14/10/2008
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | yesterday
KABUL, Afghanistan -- American soldiers, aid workers and military contractors in Afghanistan are filling out absentee ballots this week and sending them back to the U.S. to be counted by election officials.
Andrew Bolt (Free subscription) | yesterday
Major General (Rtd) Jim Molan was chief of staff of the joint forces in Iraq, and has just written
Times of India (Free subscription) | yesterday
India has strongly advocated implementing robust measures within Afghanistan to fight the "barbarity" of resurgent al-Qaida and Taliban elements while expanding "coordinated politico-military efforts" beyond the country.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
The city of Franklin, N.H., was mourning yesterday after National Guard officials confirmed that one of their own - described as a likable, longtime municipal police officer - was killed in action in southern Afghanistan.
Fox News (Free subscription) | yesterday
My producer Maryam Sepehri and Camerman Mal James and I had been standing around for hours on the wind swept freezing tarmac doing a few live reports on breaking news in Afghanistan when we heard about Air Force One. In fact is was over a scrabble game we played in between live hits with a U.S. major sitting on the ground in front of a helicopter (Mal was cheating a lot creating words like ‘malty’)...
