Iraq and Afghanistan: getting out won’t be easy
Examiner.com – USA
The President has also announced that the United States will “finish” the job in Afghanistan. “Following an intensive 60-day interagency review, …
www.examiner.com/x-10548-Hartford-Special-Interests-Examine
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Four killed in two bombings in Afghanistan
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
KABUL: Two bomb blasts on Friday killed four Afghans, one of whom worked for the US military as an interpreter, in the latest attacks led by the Taliban, …
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=
2009%5C06%5C27%5Cstory_27-6-2009_pg7_33

Karzai calls on Taliban to vote
Aljazeera.net – Qatar
Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, has called on the Taliban and other local fighters to vote in landmark elections scheduled for August. …
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/06/2009627103444647551.html

G-8, Afghan, Pakistani foreign chiefs pledge work on insurgency+
Product Design & Development – Rockaway,NJ,USA
By AP TRIESTE, Italy, June 27 (Kyodo) — Foreign ministers from Group of Eight nations along with Afghanistan and Pakistan have pledged to work together to …
www.pddnet.com/news-ap-g-8-afghan-
pakistani-foreign-chiefs-pledge-work—062709/

Ban raises Afghanistan at G8 meeting
United Press International (subscription) – USA
TRIESTE, Italy, June 26 (UPI) — The regional implications of the conflict in Afghanistan will be the focus of the UN secretary-general’s visit to the G8 …
www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/06/26/Ban-
raises-Afghanistan-at-G8-meeting/UPI-19961246043638/

Explosion kills Afghan contractor of US forces, wounds 2 others in …
Xinhua – China
KHOST, Afghanistan, June 27 (Xinhua) — An Afghan contractor with US -led international troops was killed and two others sustained injuries as a bomb…
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/27/content_11611205.htm

Karzai tells Taliban to vote in Afghan elections
Vancouver Sun – British Columbia, Canada
… to the speech of Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani during a Regional Economic Cooperation Conference on Afghanistan, in Islamabad on May 13. …
www.vancouversun.com/Karzai+tells+Taliban
+vote+Afghan+elections/1740038/story.html

Taliban kill eight police in Afghanistan: official
AFP
KABUL (AFP) — Taliban militants stormed a police checkpoint in southern Afghanistan’s troubled Helmand province overnight and killed eight policemen, …
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ALeqM5jvqgI8ZjOspPM9bJZ7o0gXezWJmg

Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia to act against drugs, terror
DAWN.com – Karachi,Pakistan
TRIESTE: Pakistan, Afghanistan and Russia agreed on Friday to improve cooperation on fighting terrorism, combating illegal drug production and trafficking …
www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/
news/world/12-afghanistan+pakistan+and+russia+to+act+
against+drugs+terror—bi-06

Young lieutenant from Steilacoom killed in Afghanistan wanted to …
Seattle Times – United States
Lt. Brian Bradshaw, 24, a 2007 graduate of Pacific Lutheran University, died Thursday in Kheyl, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when an improvised bomb went …
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/local
news/2009390921_bradshaw27m.html

US Announces Shift In Afghanistan Drug Policy
By The Huffington Post News Editors
TRIESTE, Italy — The United States has announced a new drug policy for opium-rich Afghanistan, saying it was phasing out funding for eradication programs while significantly increasing its funding for alternate crop and drug …
www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/27/
us-announces-shift-in-afg_n_221826.html

Afghanistan Briefing – Maj. Gen. Mart de Kruif | Soldier of Fortune
By SOF Editor
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PLU graduate ‘didn’t go to win a war’ – South Sound – The Olympian …
Paul Bradshaw said his son Brian joined the Army and went to Afghanistan“to try and help people” and to make the lives of the people there better.
www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/893909.html

Dust in the eyes of the world | Mission & Justice
By Luke
She was born in western Afghanistan on Anzac Day, 1978. Her father lost a leg fighting with the mujahideen against the Soviet army. She grew up in refugee camps in Iran and Pakistan. She is the second of 10 children, the eldest of seven …
www.missionandjustice.org/dust-in-the-eyes-of-the-world/

Politics this week – Jun 25th 2009
By Son
Somalia’s fragile government called in vain on its neighbours, Ethiopia and Kenya, to send troops to help it resist a growing jihadist insurgency bolstered by al-Qaeda-linked fighters from Pakistan and Afghanistan. …
www.dophan.com/blogs/index.php/2009/
06/27/politics-this-week-jun-25th-2009