PPP pushes for independent Bhutto probe
Financial Times – London,England,UK
He was arrested last week in Dera Ismail Khan, a northwestern town close to the tribal areas that border Afghanistan. A second man in his 20s, named as Sher …
www.ft.com/cms/s/333552c6-c774-11dc-a0b4-0000779fd2ac.html

Taliban attacks kill 12 in southern Afghanistan: officials
AFP –
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) — Taliban fighters killed 12 people, including a provincial reconciliation chief and five civilians, in separate attacks in …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ihzblf9Czy6Rw91QSVW4OedkDnnw

Teen held over Bhutto murder plot
The Age – Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
The teen, identified as Aitzaz Shah, told investigators in the mountainous region near the border with Afghanistan that he was not in Rawalpindi on the day …
www.theage.com.au/news/world/teen-held-over
-bhutto-murder-plot/2008/01/20/1200764079615.html

Taliban bomb kills five civilians in Afghanistan
Reuters – USA
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Jan 20 (Reuters) – A Taliban roadside bomb killed five Afghan civilians and wounded two others in the south of Afghanistan,…
www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSISL217326

Come clean on why we are in Afghanistan
Toronto Star – Ontario, Canada
Our quandary in Afghanistan has eerie parallels to the American quagmire in Iraq. There is no easy way out, no matter what US Defence Secretary Robert Gates …
www.thestar.com/columnists/article/295478

Dion’s view on Afghanistan dangerously flawed
Edmonton Sun – Alberta, Canada
Consider the latest Liberal position paper on Afghanistan, unveiled in December. Since then Dion and his deputy, Michael Ignatieff, have dropped into …
www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2008/01/20/4783312-sun.html

Roadside bombing kills 5 civilians, injures 2 in S Afghanistan
Xinhua – China
20 (Xinhua) — At least five Afghans were killed and two others injured when the van they took hit a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan’s province of …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/20/content_7457562.htm

Torture watch list with US, Israel not govt policy: Canada FM
AFP –
Guantanamo holds Omar Khadr, a Canadian accused of killing a US soldier with a hand grenade in Afghanistan when he was 15 years old. …
afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g3U1eWP6wkS7eJJxucVIEFyrLz_w

Sticks ‘n’ Stones and Allies
New York Times – United States
Understandable, too, was the administration’s decision to send another 3200 marines to Afghanistan after the allies refused to meet the need. …
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/opinion/20sun2.html?ref=opinion

New Wars Raise Familiar Specter Of Homeless Veterans
Tampa Tribune – Tampa,FL,USA
For now, about 1500 veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan have been identified by the Department of Veterans Affairs. About 400 have taken part in VA programs …
www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jan/20/na-new
-wars-raise-familiar-specter-of-homeless-vet/

dion totally wrong on Afghanistan
By Roy Eappen(Roy Eappen)
If we allow that dion did make a slip about invading Pakistan, we must look at the rest of his plan in Afghanistan. Dion wants Canadians to be in Afghanistan, but not be involved in any combat. This is a good way to get even more …
torydrroy.blogspot.com/2008/01/
dion-totally-wrong-on-afghanistan.html

Helena Guergis flawed excuse on Dion’s visit to Afghanistan
By cyberwanderer
5, 2007 news reported that Peter Mackay was not happy when a Liberal MP visited Afghanistan and he call it a political stunt. So it’s okay for him and Harper to visit but not the opposition? Liberal defence critic Denis Codere expresses …
cyberwanderer.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/helena-
guergis-flawed-excuse-on-dions-visit-to-afghanistan/

EU parliament appeals to Karzai to spare journalist
By afghandevnews
Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, 23, a reporter of the Jahan-e Naw daily paper and a journalism student at Balkh University in northern Afghanistan, was detained three months ago. He was accused of mocking Islam and the Koran and of distributing …
afghandevnews.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/eu-
parliament-appeals-to-karzai-to-spare-journalist/

Pakistan controversy in Canada over Afghanistan
By iaoj
Stephane Dion is the Leader of the Opposition in Canada. On a recent trip to Kabul, he suggested that the Pakistan Army was not capable of dealing with the insurgency inside the tribal areas and insinuated that Pakistan was partly to …
iaoj.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/pakistan
-controversy-in-canada-over-afghanistan/