5/1/08

Suspected insurgents arrested in S Afghanistan
Xinhua – China
Around 50000 foreign troops including the Coalition forces and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force are deployed in war-torn Afghanistan …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/05/content_7368083.htm

Muslim clerics warn Afghanistan president against missionaries
ChristianToday – London,UK
by Daniel Blake The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai has been told by the country’s Islamic council to stop foreign aid groups from converting locals …
www.christiantoday.com/article/muslim.clerics.warn.
afghanistan.president.against.missionaries/16004.htm

Why are we in Afghanistan?
Globe and Mail – Canada
“In Afghanistan, experiencing the intensity of battle; being the cause of the destruction of villages, of putting peoples’ homes in the target cross-hairs; …
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/
LAC.20080105.BKAFGH05/TPStory/Entertainment

Class gives teacher send-off to Afghanistan
Salt Lake Tribune – United States
“We’ve had a chance to get our heads around it,” he said, adding he’s talked a lot to students about the nature of conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. of the …
www.sltrib.com/ci_7884572

Top general says no evidence Iran behind IEDs
CTV.ca – Canada
Canadian military officials in Afghanistan say they’re concerned about the influx of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) entering the country from Iran. …
www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/200
80103/iran_ieds_080103/20080104?hub=World

Paper Blasted for ‘Texan of the Year’
The Associated Press –
… for its response to Hurricane Katrina and a former police officer whose two sons died in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as George W. Bush and Karl Rove. …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyIDoorR
v10hZOKo-TyVgDPGQxTAD8TVBP000

Afghanistan appeals for food aid
BBC News – UK
By Pam O’Toole Afghanistan is appealing to the international community to provide extra supplies of wheat to alleviate a shortage, an Afghan minister has …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7172609.stm

Guardsman from Wellford dies in Afghanistan
WIS – Columbia,SC,USA
SPARTANBURG, SC (AP) – The Department of Defense says a National Guard soldier from Wellford has died in Afghanistan. Military officials say 37-year-old …
www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7575652&nav=0RaPOFyS

Bomber strikes Indian workers in Afghanistan
Newsday – Long Island,NY,USA
AP January 4, 2008 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A suicide bomber attacked Indian road construction workers and their Afghan police escorts yesterday in …
www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/
ny-woafgh045524786jan04,0,282940.story

Economists Weigh in on Counter-Narcotics in Afghanistan
By Barnett R. Rubin(Juan Cole)
Amid all the ideologically-driven policy proposals about narcotics in Afghanistan, the Financial Times has done reality a favor: it has published a proposal from two real-life economists, about how to use economic policy to help Afghans …
icga.blogspot.com/2008/01/economists-weigh-in-on-counter.html

Afghanistan Should We Be There? [! Robin Work From Home Harrison]
I have four members of my family in the armed services two in the army and two in the RAF. One of my sons Alexander who is in the Grenadier Guards got seriously injured last summer whilst serving over there after recieving a gun shot …
www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=96478

The Main Human Rights Violators in Afghanistan
By hyperbola
The US government first of all considers her own political and economic interests and has empowered and equipped the most traitorous, anti-democratic, misogynist and corrupt fundamentalist gangs in Afghanistan. …
donoevil.propeller.com/story/2008/01/05/
the-main-human-rights-violators-in-afghanistan

Gulboddin Hekmatyaar’s Gang targeted another Journalist
By Mohammad Fahim Khairy(Mohammad Fahim Khairy)
The members of Gulboddin Hekmatyaar the Taliban allied Pashtun Al Qaeda party attacked a bus and killed a local journalist Abdul Munir, the producer and presenter of Afghanistan Radio Television in Jawzjan (RTA-Jawzjan), was killed on …
the-rumi.blogspot.com/2008/01/gulbod
din-hekmatyaars-gang-targeted.html