Pakistani Refugees Head for Afghanistan
The Associated Press –
WASHINGTON (AP) — Several hundred Pakistani families have fled to neighboring Afghanistan in recent days to escape the turmoil in their country, …
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Bush pledges to support Afghanistan during Mideast trip
Xinhua – China
2 (Xinhua) — US President George W. Bush exchanged views with his Afghani counterpart Hamid Karzai on the situation of Afghanistan and Pakistan on…
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/03/content_7355714.htm

New-look Hicks steps out in silence
The Australian – Sydney,Australia
… house” in Adelaide yesterday with a new look but the same aversion to answering questions about training as a terrorist in Pakistan and Afghanistan. …
www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story
/0,25197,23000261-5013404,00.html

‘If it was jihad then, it’s jihad now.’
Globe and Mail – Canada
A former Pakistani intelligence officer says he has a message for Canadian and NATO forces in Afghanistan: “Ultimately you will lose,” he told me a phone …
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Five Taliban killed by own car bomb in Afghanistan: police
AFP –
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) — Five suspected Taliban militants were killed when a suicide car bomb they were building went off prematurely in the southern …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ixpuh2qllfHPz50o_hd3HHZDIEtA

Bhutto’s death a blow to ‘war on terror’
Asia Times Online – Kowloon,Hong Kong
One of the NATO strategy games apparently simulated the withdrawal of the troops from Afghanistan that had been cut off from supplies. …
www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JA03Df02.html

Comrades pay final tribute to fallen Canadian soldier
Canada.com – Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Guy Laroche, commander of the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan. In a statement issued Monday, Dion’s parents said they are proud of their son, who loved being …
www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.
html?id=f1f43f31-34fa-4717-a348-b93e6391d748

Stay the course
National Post – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The death in Afghanistan on Sunday of Royal Canadian Artillery Gunner Jonathan Dion and the assassination last week of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir …
www.nationalpost.com/opinion/story.html?id=209520

Police clerk going to Afghanistan
London Free Press – Canada
By CARLA GARRETT, SUN MEDIA WOODSTOCK — A new year brings a new life experience for a local woman heading to Afghanistan this week. …
lfpress.ca/newsstand/CityandRegion/2008/01/02/4748644-sun.html

Militants kidnap four Pakistani soldiers: military
AFP –
The rebels had launched rocket and mortar attacks on a military base near Ladda town from rugged terrain bordering Afghanistan, a security official said. …
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Expelling Diplomats
By Bipasha Ray
The expulsion of two senior diplomats from Afghanistan last week is causing much consternation. Irishman Michael Semple, the EU acting representative in Afghanistan, and Briton Mervyn Patterson with the UN assistance mission, …
www.afghanistanwatch.org/2008/01/expelling-diplo.html

We’re Failing in Afghanistan
By The Mound of Sound(The Mound of Sound)
One pointed out the sole, key strategic objective of the entire country – the ring road that goes around Afghanistan’s massive, central highlands (sorry for the Vietnam reference) to link every region and major city in the country. …
the-mound-of-sound.blogspot.com/2008
/01/were-failing-in-afghanistan.html

AIDS epidemic may grow in Afghanistan
By afghandevnews
In Quetta, a town in Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, for example, a 24 percent prevalence of HIV infection has been reported in a cluster of injecting drug users. These data have increased the fears of an epidemic in Afghanistan, …
afghandevnews.wordpress.com/2008/01/02
/aids-epidemic-may-grow-in-afghanistan/

US casualties in Afghanistan hit record
By bubba2
Six years after the US-led invasion, violence persists in much of southern Afghanistan, and recent militant attacks in Pakistan highlight a long-term regional problem with al-Qaida and the Taliban. Channel: Do No Evil Tags: Afghanistan …
donoevil.propeller.com/story/2008/01/01/
us-casualties-in-afghanistan-hit-record

Aids in Afghanistan – (2)
By Reid Neufeld
Averting large numbers of HIV infections through harm reduction programmes will not only save lives but also makes sound development policy, even for a resource-constrained country such as Afghanistan. Because much HIV-related mortality …
globalhealthnexus.typepad.com/global_
health_nexus/2008/01/aids-in-afghani.html

Reality from the Carrier Flight Deck, the Pentagon and Afghanistan’s Ground Zero: a Day in October 2001
Prof. Marc W. Herold, The Afghan Victim Memorial Project
Lt. Ashley, age 26, flew in the two-seater Navy F-14 Tomcats off the carrier USS Carl Vinson during October 7, 2001 – January 2002. She was the only female pilot in the Black Lions Squadron on board the Vinson (though she is not in the front seat). The F-14 Tomcat was made famous in the film, Top Gun. She dropped 500 lb, 1,000lb and 2,000 lb laser and satellite-guided bombs daily above 15,000 feet high on Afghanistan. The ten Tomcats in the Black Lions on the Vinson made 40-50 sorties daily over Afghanistan. After one mission, Ashley remarked: “I was smiling. I had dropped by bombs. They had definitely hit….I was smiling at the fact that I had done my thing for the country.”…
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19 killed as Afghan violence continues :
Roadside bombs and military operations in Afghanistan killed 19 people, including 14 Taliban fighters, as the record violence that Afghanistan saw in 2007 continued into the new year, officials said Wednesday.
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080102/ap_on_re_as/afghanistan

Pakistani Troops Kill At Least 25 Militants Near Afghan Border :
Pakistani officials say troops have killed at least 25 militants in fighting near the border with Afghanistan.
www.voanews.com/english/2008-01-02-voa28.cfm?rss=asia

Giuliani wants to double troops in Afghanistan —GOP presidential hopeful calls for ‘surge’ 02 Jan 2008
Republican Rudy Giuliani said Wednesday he would immediately double the number of troops under U.S. command in Afghanistan, arguing it would increase the chances of capturing Osama bin Laden and stabilize the region. more stories like this “We need to bring a surge to Afghanistan and make it effective, right now,” he said.
www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2008/
01/02/giuliani_wants_to_double_troops_in_afghanistan/

21 Killed in Afghan Bombings, Fighting 02 Jan 2008
Roadside bombs and military operations in Afghanistan killed 21 people, including an occupation soldier and 14 Taliban fighters, officials said Wednesday. A roadside bomb hit a U.S.-led occupation vehicle in eastern Khost province, killing a soldier and an Afghan interpreter, the coalition said. The soldier’s nationality was not released, but a majority of the troops in the east are American. Two other soldiers were wounded.
www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7192641,00.html

Record level of violence in Afghanistan 01 Jan 2008
US military deaths, suicide bombings and opium production hit record highs in 2007. Afghanistan in 2007 saw a record level of violence that killed more than 6,500 people, including 110 US troops — the highest ever in Afghanistan — and almost 4,500 militants, according to an Associated Press count. Britain lost 41 soldiers, while Canada lost 30. Other nations lost a total of 40.
news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article3298420.ece