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• Another Crossroads Seoul Leaves Behind

  Published: August 30, 2007, 10:31 pm

  Tags: Central Asia, East Asia, Afghnistan, Bundang, Canada, Central Asia, Germany, Ghazni, Kabul, Missionaries, Pakistan, Rok, Saemmul Presbyterian Church, Saudi Arabia, Seoul, South Korea, South Korean Hostages, Taliban

  East Asia, germany, ghazni, kabul, missionaries, pakistan, rok, saemmul presbyterian church, saudi arabia, seoul, south korea, south korean hostages, talibanafghnistan bundang canada central asia East Asia germany ghazni kabul missionaries pakistan rok saemmul presbyterian church saudi arabia seoul south korea south korean hostages taliban

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• Narco Politics

  Published: August 30, 2007, 6:18 am

  Tags: Opium, Kabul, Stephen Harper, Marx, Heroin, Kandahar, Cia, Iran, Dutch East India Company, Afghanistan, Karzai

  The British alternative is what? More civilian deaths from air strikes?British diplomat opposes legalized Afghan poppy cropBritain's top diplomat in Canada has dismissed a poll, commissioned by the international think-tank that is championing the legalization of Afghanistan's contentious opium poppy crop, which shows that Canadians overwhelmingly

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• Le silence est d'or

  Published: August 30, 2007, 5:01 am

  Tags: Kabul, War, Kandahar, Canadian Forces, Vandoos, Land Mines, Afghanistan, Friendly Fire, Harper

  Silence is Golden.At his first Quebec appearance since two Quebec-based soldiers died in Afghanistan, Prime Minister Stephen Harper nearly completely refrained from commenting on the mission in the war-ravaged country. Harper, who didn't use the word "Afghanistan" in the speech, wouldn't answer reporters' questions afterwards.The Right Honorable

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• Clarification

  Published: August 30, 2007, 4:32 am

  Tags: Kabul, War, Kandahar, Canadian Forces, Vandoos, Land Mines, Afghanistan, Friendly Fire, Harper

  Christian was on afghan ground for a little over a month,when his light armoured vehicle struck a land mine. The fact he is dead, and how he died, his vehicle hit a land mine (not and IED, not a Taliban roadside bomb, not a suicide bomber) is less important than getting his regimental colours right.Final Van Doos soldiers head to

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• Opiate Of The Masses

  Published: August 29, 2007, 9:07 am

  Tags: Opium, Kabul, Stephen Harper, Heroin, Kandahar, Cia, Iran, Afghanistan, Karzai

  Iran suffers from being the conduit for Afghanistan opium and heroin. It more than any other country is directly affected by the increased narcotic production in Afghanistan.While the Canadian media hyped the latest UN Drug Report on the increased opium production in Afghanistan quoting the RCMP claim that we are getting more heroin from there

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• Harpers War Costs Another Canadian Life

  Published: September 26, 2007, 9:10 am

  Tags: Kabul, War, Kandahar, Canadian Forces, Land Mines, Afghanistan, Friendly Fire, Harper

  Harpers WarBody Count: 6371 Canadian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since 2002. True but the vast majority have been killed since March 2006 when it became Harpers War.And we still don't have an accurate total count of troops who are injured. That has not been released by the Department of Defense.SEE:KandaharAfghanistanWarFind blog

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• EUROASIA: Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan pipeline Project

  Published: September 29, 2007, 12:09 am

  Tags: Islamabad, Kabul, Usa, Ashgabat, China, New Delhi, Transneft, Caspian Pipeline Consortium, Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan Pipeline, Russia, Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan Pipeline

  Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, armchair journalists and strategists have promulgated the concept that a new Great Game is afoot in Eurasia. This time, the prize is not land but access to the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: October 6, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, British Broadcasting Corporation, Rdf Media Group Plc, Annie Leibovitz, Asia, Basque Country, Kabul, Kinshasa, Peter Fincham, Queen Elizabeth Ii, Stephen Lambert, Viktor Yushchenko, China, India, Japan, U S Armed Forces

  With the peace process in ruins, Spanish authorities dealt a dramatic blow to the political wing of militant Basque separatism, arresting virtually its entire leadership in a show of force likely to raise tensions in the decades-old conflict with the ETA paramilitary group.

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• Suicide attack targets foreign troops in Kabul

  Published: October 6, 2007, 10:21 am

  Tags: World, Afghanistan, Kabul, Suicide Attacks

  Witnesses say a suicide bomber has attacked a convoy of foreign troops in the Afghan capital, but police had no immediate reports of any casualties.

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• Afghan Government Executes 15 Prisoners

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Afghan, Government, Executes, Prisoners, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Kabul, Tom Koenigs, The Taliban, United Nations, United States, Clementina Cantoni, Humayun Hamidzada, Jalalabad, London, Reza Khan, Amnesty International, Nato

  KABUL, Oct. 8 -- Afghanistan executed 15 prisoners by gunfire, including a man convicted of killing three Western journalists and an Afghan photographer, the chief of prisons said Monday. It was the first time the country had carried out the death penalty in more than three years.

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• Afghans Close 2 Security Firms; More Likely

  Published: October 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Afghans, Close, Security, Firms, More, Likely, Ali Shah Paktiawal, Afghanistan, Dyncorp International Llc, The Associated Press, Kabul, Todd Vician, Iraq, U S Armed Forces, U S Department Of Defense, United States, Blackwater Usa

  KABUL, Oct. 11 -- Afghan authorities this week shut down two private security companies and said more than 10 others -- some suspected of murder and robbery -- would soon be closed, Afghan and Western officials said Thursday.

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• Risking Life For Insecure Return: The Lapis Lazuli Mines of Afghanistan

  Published: October 15, 2007, 1:37 pm

  Tags: Sari, Afghanistan, Assets, Business, Culture, Degraded, Exploitation, Gemstone, Highly, Kabul, Kocha, Lapis Lazuli, Life, Mined, Mners, Northern, Precious, Prized, Pure, Resources, Sar I Sang, Source, Virtual Slavery, Years

  Gas lamps and dynamite explosions in tunnels are among the daily hazards for miners toiling in Afghanistan's lapis lazuli mines. read more

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• NATO Conflicted Over Afghanistan

  Published: October 21, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Nato, Conflicted, Over, Afghanistan, United States, The Taliban, International Security Assistance Force, United Kingdom, Kabul, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, United Nations, Abu Ghraib, Barry R Mccaffrey, Canada, Europe, European Union, Germany, Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Netherlan

  KABUL -- Four years after NATO began an expanded mission in Afghanistan, members of the 26-nation alliance are divided over anti-drug and reconstruction policies, rising civilian casualties and what some say is heavy-handed U.S. leadership, according to interviews with military officials and dipl...

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• Gates Prods NATO States on Deployments to Afghanistan

  Published: October 23, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Gates, Prods, Nato, States, Deployments, Afghanistan, Robert Gates, Geoff Morrell, Uruzgan Province, Kabul, The Balkans, Afghan National Army, Iraq, Netherlands, Slovakia

  KIEV, Ukraine, Oct. 22 -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates criticized European members of NATO on Monday for failing to provide the extra troops that their governments promised last year for security duties in Afghanistan.

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• Interwiew with a fighter...

  Published: October 24, 2007, 7:57 pm

  Tags: Changes, Children, Cruel, Fights, History, Inhuman, Kabul, King, Life, Morals, Peace, Peaceful Life, People, Russians, School, Souls, Talibans, Village, Vineyards

  We have lost everything read more

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