CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
A Canadian soldier was injured on Sunday when a roadside bomb exploded near an armoured vehicle carrying troops in southern Afghanistan.
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
( Photo From Air Force News ) At Kandahar Airfield, Rocket Attacks Part Of Life -- CTV News The Canadian Press KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Sirens announcing Taliban rocket attacks have sent thousands of soldiers and civilians at the headquarters of Canada's Afghan mission scurrying to shelters six times over the past eight days. Several injuries resulted from the recent blasts, but the officer...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
'It seems fitting,' says Paul Gross, who wrote, starred in and directed film
U.S. Torture and Atrocities (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Photo Credit: Sgt. Matt Wrzesinski A runner nears the half-way point of the 2008 Army 10-miler on Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, as a C-130 takes off. The 189th Combat Service Support Battalion sponsored the run so that coalition troops, civilian employees and contractors in Kandahar could join the thousands of other runners around the world participating in the event. tags : Republican...
TruthSeeker24's anti-N.W.O. corner (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
From http://www.infowars.com/?p=5082 Report: Karzai’s Brother Linked to Afghan Heroin Trade James Risen The New York Times October 5, 2008 WASHINGTON — When Afghan security forces found an enormous cache of heroin hidden beneath concrete blocks in a tractor-trailer outside Kandahar in 2004, the local Afghan commander quickly impounded the truck and notified his boss. A d v e r t i s e m e n...
cryptogon.com (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Captain Obvious strikes again. Via: New York Times: When Afghan security forces found an enormous cache of heroin hidden beneath concrete blocks in a tractor-trailer outside Kandahar in 2004, the local Afghan commander quickly impounded the truck and notified his boss. Before long, the commander, Habibullah Jan, received a telephone call from Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of [...]
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Azar Balkhi reports that Taliban militants have shot dead high rank female police officer in the volatile southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar.
Global Security (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Afghan President's Brother Denies Links to Heroin TradeBy Steve HermanKabul06 October 2008The brother of Afghanistan's president is vehemently denying his alleged involvement in the illegal drug trade. Ahmed Wali Karzai told reporters in Kandahar that he will file a lawsuit against the New York Times newspaper, which most recently reported the allegation. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman reports...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to buttress it.In the article, both President Karzai and Ahmed Wali Karzai, now the chief of the Kandahar Provincial Council, dismissed the allegations as politically motivated attacks by longtime foes.In a telephone interview after the news conference on Monday, Ahmed Wali Karzai addressed a 2004 episode described in the article, in which Afghan security forces found a cache of heroin in...
The Business Journal of Phoenix (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
The women will receive two weeks of entrepreneurial training, coaching, mentoring and access to resources to help them grow small businesses in their homeland. The women, ranging from 25 to 50 years in age, either have established businesses or are starting new companies in cities, including Kabul, Mazar-e-Sharif, Herat, Ghazni and Kandahar.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Gabriella Le BretonLast Updated: 3:54PM BST 07 Oct 2008 of Images St Anton's ski museum makes an unlikely but delightful location for a gourmet dinner 'Local lore has it that more injuries are sustained on the short stretch of piste between the bars and town than anywhere else on the mountain' Top five restaurants: (unless otherwise stated prices are for a three-course dinner with wine). Kandahar...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
... the regime.In the article, both the president and his brother, who is now the chief of the Kandahar Provincial Council, dismissed the allegations as politically motivated attacks by longtime foes.At his news conference Monday, Ahmed Wali Karzai addressed a 2004 incident, described in the article, in which Afghan security forces, including those of the Kandahar police commander Habibullah...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Afghan police clashed with a group of Taliban militants who attacked the house of a police official in southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Saturday, leaving five militants dead and five civilians wounded, said a police official on Sunday. Matiwullah Khan, the provincial police chief told Xinhua that Taliban attacked the police official's house in Ghorak district early Saturday morning and...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and which ones are, for lack of a better term, cyclical variations in a standard conflict pattern. Kandahar bazaar during Ramadan, courtesy Flickr user Chooyutshing . This can manifest itself in a couple of ways. Alex Strick van Linschoten , for example, just returned to Kandahar from a few weeks abroad. What has he noticed upon his return? If there’s one thing two weeks abroad (California...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
... to buttress it.In the article, both President Karzai and Ahmed Wali Karzai, now the chief of the Kandahar Provincial Council, dismissed the allegations as politically motivated attacks by longtime foes.At his news conference on Monday, Ahmed Wali Karzai addressed a 2004 incident described in the article, in which Afghan security forces found a cache of heroin in a tractor-trailer in Kandahar...
