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Afghanistan News-links 5 March 2008

AFGHANISTAN: A WAR WE CAN’T BELIEVE IN
Yahoo! News – USA
Afghanistan currently produces a record 93 percent of the world’s opium. Suicide bombers are killing more US-aligned troops than ever. Stonings are back. …
news.yahoo.com/s/ucru/20080304/cm_
ucru/afghanistanawarwecantbelievein

Wild claims over Harry
Scotsman – United Kingdom
Mark Johnston (Letters, 3 March) seems to be under the impression that the so-called “media blackout” over Prince Harry’s deployment in Afghanistan somehow …
news.scotsman.com/opinion/Wild-claims-over-Harry.3842646.jp

Afghanistan casualties with Michigan connections
Detroit Free Press – United States
Army Pfc. Joseph A. Miracle, 22, of Ortonville, died on July 5, 2007 after being wounded in an enemy attack in Afghanistan’s Kunar province. …
www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/
20080303/NEWS06/303030001/1008/news06

Afghanistan lawmakers rally against reprinting of Muhammad cartoons
JURIST – USA
[JURIST] Some 200 Afghan parliamentarians demonstrated Tuesday at the parliament building in Kabul against last month’s reprinting of a cartoon depicting …
jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/03/
afghanistan-lawmakers-rally-against.php

Global Progress, or Global Whack-a-Mole?
Washington Post – United States
In eastern Afghanistan, January showed the first decline in violence in two years, according to the Pentagon. After months of difficult wrangling, …
blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2008/03/
global_progress_or_global_whac.html?nav=rss_blog

Prince Harry’s tour of Afghanistan has been branded a propaganda stunt
The Cheers – Paikuse,Estonia
Philippson also revealed he can’t see how the prince – who had been secretly serving in Afghanistan for 10-weeks before a US website leaked details of his …
www.thecheers.org/news/Europe/news_14330_Prince-Harrys
-tour-of-Afghanistan-has-been-branded-a-propaganda-stunt.html

Harry ‘expendable’, claims US news host
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
By Sophie Borland A US news presenter has found himself at the centre of a row for joking live on-air that Prince Harry was only sent to Afghanistan because …
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml
?xml=/news/2008/03/04/wharry104.xml

2 NATO Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
The Associated Press –
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide attack on a government office guarded by Afghan and NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan left two alliance soldiers dead …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jkKFU8
CvHoLV5ont_58iLTVBWLVQD8V6FGRG0

Thousands bid farewell to 79th Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan
The Canadian Press – KANDAHAR, Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Standing silently in the rising sun, a chaplain wept Tuesday as the body of the 79th Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan left the …
canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeq
M5jwGKlAEqdTCXolFf4KzPguUp5uAg

Warrior prince
Jerusalem Post – Israel
… in line to the British throne and proud representative of a long line of British warrior princes, served his country with distinction in Afghanistan. …
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=12045463
89768&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

All the way? The Evolution Of German Military Power
By Human Security Report Project
In Afghanistan, the Bundeswehr is faced with the challenge of a growing insurgency. This situation requires a willingness to provide combat forces for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. Hence, the conviction in German …
www.afghanconflictmonitor.org/2008/03/all-the-way-the.html

Afghanistan
By Doug Krile
Meanwhile, back in Afghanistan, the Bush Administration’s crowning achievement glimmers in full glory. We certainly taught those terrorists a lesson. You know- the ones who attacked us. September 11. Dead or alive. …
krilefiles.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/afghanistan/

Afghanistan News Roundup
By RockRichard
Mulla Abdul Karim, a veteran Taliban fighter recently received a message that “an important chicken” had joined British troops in Afghanistan. The “important chicken” apparently was Prince Harry. Incidentally, if you’ve ever seen …
www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=684

Stupid Changes, Obama Style – Afghanistan
By Will Offensicht
He’s the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs which has oversight of NATO. NATO is in charge of the war in Afghanistan; we aren’t alone there. What goes on in Afghanistan falls under Sen. …
www.scragged.com/articles/stupid-
changes-obama-style---afghanistan.asp

 

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