US calls for quick naming of UN envoy for Afghanistan
Xinhua – China
28 (Xinhua) — The United States urged on Monday to appoint a United Nations special envoy to Afghanistan after British politician and diplomat Paddy …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/29/content_7513618.htm

Territory plagued by lawlessness
Guardian Unlimited – UK
… the word lawless and Pakistan’s north-west always seem to go together– that plagues a large swath of Pakistani territory bordering Afghanistan.…
www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2248296,00.html

Afghanistan: Kabul Spurns UN Envoy Candidate
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty – Prague,Czech Republic
“I think there was a sense of mistrust in Afghanistan that Mr. Ashdown might come with some powers that could have been considered as interference in …
www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2008/01/ECD9
93A9-D537-4AA8-8FB6-A780830C9AED.html

Canada’s Harper Wants Conditional Stay in Afghanistan (Update1)
Bloomberg – USA
28 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada should place conditions on a decision to extend its military mission in Afghanistan beyond 2009, …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=2060
1082&sid=aaCMoPwxtsrE&refer=canada

Minn. soldier dies in Afghanistan after possible friendly fire
Worthington Daily Globe – Worthington,MN,USA
The US Department of Defense said Sunday that Kahler died in FOB Fenty, Afghanistan, after being shot in Waygul, Afghanistan. According to the department, …
www.dglobe.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D8UESC2O2

Harper is the real problem, not Buckler, Ignatieff says
Globe and Mail – Canada
Mr. Ignatieff says the mistake highlights the need for Mr. Harper to take command of the Afghanistan file and to be less secretive about it, as suggested by …
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.
20080128.wdetainees28/BNStory/National/home

Minnesotan dies in Afghanistan
Pioneer Press – St. Paul,MN,USA
BY FREDERICK MELO A 29-year-old solider from Granite Falls, Minn., was killed in Afghanistan, the US Department of Defense said late Sunday.…
www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_8096583

8 Taliban killed in clash with police in southern Afghanistan
The Canadian Press –
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A clash between police and the Taliban in a mountainous area of southern Afghanistan left eight militants dead and three officers …
canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeq
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Reporting Afghanistan: This isn’t Ross Kemp the hard man playing …
Independent – London,England,UK
He discusses tales from the front line with Kim Sengupta, who has reported from Afghanistan for ‘The Independent’ Ross Kemp has had a busy month in Snow …
www.independent.co.uk/news/media/reporting-afghanistan
-this-isnt-ross-kemp-the-hard-man-playing-at-being-a-
soldier-774782.html

‘World should help Pakistan, Afghanistan against terror’
Pakistan Dawn – Karachi,Pakistan
By Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON, Jan 27: Afghan President Hamid Karzai believes that Benazir Bhutto’s assassination has forced both Pakistan and Afghanistan to …
www.dawn.com/2008/01/28/top11.htm

Afghanistan: Kabul Spurns UN Envoy Candidate
No description.
www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/
news/2008/01/mil-080128-rferl01.htm

Ashdown Opts [banned] Out of Afghanistan Envoy Role
By Human Security Report Project
EXCERPT: “Plans to install Paddy Ashdown as a new “super envoy” in Afghanistan were abandoned yesterday [27 January 2008] after the former high representative to Bosnia pulled out of the race, saying he lacked support from the Afghan …
www.afghanconflictmonitor.org/2008/01/ashdown-opts-ou.html

CANADA IN AFGHANISTAN: FURTHER INTO THE MIRE
By Darryl Raymaker(Darryl Raymaker)
And so it was logical that Harper would go to this gifted and successful Grit – who was somewhat to the right of his party and had a soft spot in his heart for the US – to try to take the heat off the Government in Canada’s Afghanistan …
darrylraymaker.blogspot.com/2008/01/
canada-in-afghanistan-further-into-mire.html

Great Northern Whitewash Over Afghanistan by Eric Margolis
By dandelionsalad
The report on Afghanistan delivered by the Manley Panel to Canada’s government last Monday was deeply flawed and most disappointing. Its totally predictable findings could have been written without the panel of instant Afghan experts …
dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/great
-northern-whitewash-over-afghanistan-by-eric-margolis/

Field of Candidates Narrows for UN ‘Super Envoy’ to Afghanistan
By seher
Veteran British diplomat Paddy Ashdown has withdrawn his name from consideration as the new United Nations envoy to Afghanistan.
www.huliq.com/48596/field-candidates-
narrows-un-039super-envoy039-afghanistan