20/2/08

Canada leader confers with Karzai over Afghanistan mission
AFP –
To that end, Harper has in recent weeks urged the heads of France, Germany and Australia to boost their troop deployments in southern Afghanistan. …
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Afghanistan’s ‘Hidden’ Art Treasures on Exhibit in Amsterdam
Voice of America – USA
Along with the Buddhas, the Taliban destroyed 2500 other cultural gems from Kabul’s National Museum of Afghanistan. But thanks to the heroic efforts of the …
www.voanews.com/english/2008-02-19-voa54.cfm

Coroner in troops’ protection call
The Press Association –
British troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan need better protection, a coroner has said. David Masters spoke out after hearing how four soldiers died in …
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Czech prime minister to visit Ottawa for talks on Afghanistan
The Canadian Press –
OTTAWA – The prime minister of the Czech Republic will be in Ottawa next week to talk about the war in Afghanistan with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. …
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More Pakistanis Flee to Afghanistan
The Associated Press –
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Pakistanis fleeing to eastern Afghanistan to avoid violence in their country has risen to about 10000 in recent weeks, …
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Soldier killed in Afghanistan named
The Press Association –
A soldier killed in Afghanistan has been named as Corporal Damian Stephen Lawrence. The 25-year-old was killed on Sunday night after being caught in an …
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The American dream; Victory in Afghanistan?; China, Africa and the …
International Herald Tribune – France
In your editorial “The White House, Europe and the truth on Afghanistan” (Feb. 13) you say “winning is essential.” What do you mean by “winning? …
www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/19/opinion/edletters.php

Blast hits Afghanistan’s Kandahar: witnesses
Reuters Canada – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) – A loud explosion on Tuesday hit the southern Afghan province of Kandahar where more than 140 people, …
ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCASP7268020080219

Third attack in Afghanistan’s Kandahar in three days kills one
AFP –
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) — A suicide car bomb exploded in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar Tuesday, killing one person, in the third such attack in …
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Car bomb hits Afghanistan’s Kandahar-witnesses
Reuters – USA
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb 19 (Reuters) – A remote-controlled car bomb blast hit a police vehicle in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Tuesday and …
www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSSP74036

Bombing in Afghanistan (February 17, 2008)
These tragic circumstances can but strengthen our determination to stand alongside the Afghan people and democratic authorities of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in their struggle for a free, prosperous Afghanistan to which peace …
www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/country-files_156/afghanistan_
498/bombing-in-afghanistan-february-17-2008_10845.html

Afghanistan: More Treasures Coming To Light
By Rossella Lorenzi
From today Discovery News story.
blogs.discovery.com/news_archae
orama/2008/02/afghanistan-mor.html

Soldier killed in Afghanistan named
A soldier killed in Afghanistan has been named as Corporal Damian Stephen Lawrence.The 25-year-old was killed on Sunday night after being caught in an explosion.
news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=7580258

UK & World News: Soldier killed in Afghanistan named
A soldier killed in Afghanistan has been named as Corporal Stephen Damian Lawrence.
www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/uk-world-news/
2008/02/19/soldier-killed-in-afghanistan-named-64375-20496166/

Postings from Afghanistan: A Kandahar Journal
By The Loch Ness Monster
“My name is Captain Doug MacNair, I coordinate the media embedding program from a desk here in Ottawa… I have embedded more than 250 journalists in our program, and no embed has given me more personal satisfaction than yours. …
www.metafilter.com/69195/Postings-
from-Afghanistan-A-Kandahar-Journal

19/2/08

Suicide bomber kills 37 in southern Afghanistan
Taipei Times – Taiwan
A suicide car bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy detonated his explosives at a busy market in southern Afghanistan yesterday, killing 37 civilians, …
www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/
archives/2008/02/19/2003401900

CHRONOLOGY-Bombing attacks in Afghanistan
Reuters – USA
Feb 18 (Reuters) – A suicide bomber targeting a foreign military convoy in Afghanistan killed 37 civilians in an attack near the Pakistan border on Monday, …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSB4868

Suicide Attack Kills 36 in Afghanistan
New York Times – United States
By TAIMOOR SHAH and CARLOTTA GALL KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — In the second serious attack in southern Afghanistan in two days, a suicide bomber set off an …
www.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/world/asia/19afghan.html?hp

Attack on Canadian convoy leaves up to 35 dead in Afghanistan
Guardian Unlimited – UK
Photograph: Allauddin Khan/AP Up to 35 people were killed in Afghanistan today when a suicide car bomber attacked a Canadian military convoy. …
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/18/
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Suicide bomber kills more than 35 civilians in Afghanistan
Canada.com – Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — For the second time in two days, a suicide bomb has killed dozens of Afghans inside an area of Canadian military responsibility. …
www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=
7b775116-528f-4f66-abeb-d3967b05ef08&k=47452

UN Leads Condemnation of Afghanistan Suicide Bombing (Update3)
Bloomberg – USA
18 (Bloomberg) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned
one of the deadliest suicide attacks in Afghanistan since the fall of the
Taliban …
www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20
601087&sid=awAsIY_v8jdA&refer=home

Blast kills 80 in Afghanistan
The Statesman – Kolkata,India
Kabul, Feb 17: An explosion rocked Kandahar city in southern Afghanistan Sunday, killing at least 80 people and injuring dozens, the provincial governor …
www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php
?clid=8&theme=&usrsess=1&id=191304

Honesty best policy for government on Afghanistan
Hill Times – Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his government must be frank with Canadians about Afghanistan. It must tell them that Afghanistan is a long-term mission, …
www.thehilltimes.ca/html/index.php?display=
story&full_path=2008/february/18/sedra/&c=2

I thought we won Afghanistan
By realwords
Last week a suicide car bomber targeting a Canadian military convoy killed 35 civilians at a busy market in southern Afghanistan, a police official said.- Last week Afghanistan’s experienced the deadliest bombing since the fall of the …
realwords.wordpress.com/2008/02/
18/i-thought-we-won-afghanistan/

The War in Afghanistan
By eliyahu
Twenty eight years ago Russian army has entered Afghanistan. They stayed there for 9 years and more than 15000 Russian soldiers were lost dead, much more were wounded or had psychological problems in their civil life later. …
englishrussia.com/?p=1778

A thousand splendid “truths” about Afghanistan
By Iva Skoch
The conversation turned to whether or not it is a good idea for the “American masses” to get their ideas about what life in Afghanistan is like from fiction. Imagine what everyone in Afghanistan would think about the US if they only …
www.gadling.com/2008/02/18/a-thousand
-splendid-truths-about-afghanistan/

Bookends to War: Afghanistan by Louis Dupree, and Taliban by Ahmed …
By Joshua Foust
It is difficult to say anything useful about either of these books: after all, both have been read and discussed to death—Dupree’s because, 35 years after its publication, it remains the definitive source on Afghanistan, and Rashid’s …
www.registan.net/index.php/2008/02/18/bookends-to-war-
afghanistan-by-louis-dupree-and-taliban-by-ahmed-rashid/