Nine Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan
AFP
KABUL (AFP) — Afghan and NATO-led security forces killed nine Taliban militants including their commander and a proxy district chief in a ground and air …
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ALeqM5iAN-FraNe91uN41jRm5-tuHNPmww

US NSA in Pak to discuss military offensive against Taliban
Indian Express – New Delhi,India
Jones, who arrived here on Thursday after a brief visit to Afghanistan, was briefed last night by Kayani on the offensive against the Taliban in Malakand …
www.indianexpress.com/news/US-NSA-in-Pak-to-
discuss-military-offensive-against-Taliban/481218

Russian media: Kyrgyz parliament ratifies Manas airbase deal
Xinhua – China
The establishment of the transit center aims “to address the situation in and around Afghanistan, which is beginning to present a real threat to Central …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/25/content_11600841.htm

NATO chief says Central Asia must decide on ties
Reuters – USA
Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, together with Russia, make up a corridor along which the United States plans to supply its troops in Afghanistan …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLP176671

AFGHANISTAN: NGOs squeezed out of funding appeals – analysis
IRINnews.org – New York,NY,USA
KABUL, 25 June 2009 (IRIN) – The Afghanistan Humanitarian Action Plan (HAP) 2009 launched on 3 February in Geneva by John Holmes, …
www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=85004

US drone strike kills 80 Pakistanis
World Socialist Web Site – Oak Park,MI,USA
The increasing carnage inflicted on the Pakistanis is the direct result of the escalation of military violence in both Afghanistan and Pakistan ordered by …
www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jun2009/paki-j25.shtml

Ecstasy on the rise, cocaine use falls: UN
ABC Online – Australia
It says opium cultivation in Afghanistan, where 93 per cent of the world’s opium is grown, declined by 19 per cent in 2008. The report says cannabis remains …
www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/25/2607928.htm?section=world

Bagram is Now Obama’s Guantanamo
The Public Record – Los Angeles,California,USA
The “other GITMO” was set up by the US military as a temporary screening site after the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan overthrew the Taliban. …
www.pubrecord.org/torture/969.html?task=view

Obama signs bill funding wars
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has signed into law a measure keeping the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from running out of money. …
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5g9fgM8HGAvuy2pycaX8k0agKu8tQD991C4UO0

‘Pakistan Taliban hit by US drones’
Aljazeera.net – Qatar
… attack early on Tuesday hit what authorities said was a “Taliban training centre” in the South Waziristan tribal region that borders Afghanistan. …
english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2009/06/200962317958264507.html

Untold Stories: Afghanistan: Teachers, Schools and Security
By Shaun McCanna
Nasaji Nakhi High School, Kandahar, Afghanistan by Shaun McCanna, for Pulitzer Center There is an ongoing debate as to what is the most pressing challenge facing education in Afghanistan. According to Asif Nang, the spokesman for …
pulitzercenter.typepad.com/untold_stories/2009/06
/afghanistan-teachers-schools-and-security.html

Gates Speaks on Afghanistan: 24 June 2009
Secretary of Defense Gates said the US and Afghanistan have the capacity to
make real headway in the country.,
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d05bc0b484f080fc8feb45c7c0049b40e&rf=rss

Victim of al-Qaeda Torture Set Free from Guantánamo by Andy …
By Andy Worthington
In Afghanistan, as he has admitted all along, he spent five days at an al-Qaeda-affiliated guest house in Kabul, and 18 days in January and February 2000 at al-Farouq, a military training camp established by the Afghan warlord Abdul …
original.antiwar.com/worthington/2009/06/24/
victim-of-al-qaeda-torture-set-free-from-guantanamo/

Afghan Leader Outmaneuvers Election Rivals “ The Blogger
By Annuit coeptis
KABUL, Afghanistan — With a nationwide election only weeks away, the paradox of President Hamid Karzai has never seemed more apparent: he is at once deeply unpopular and likely to win. Mr. Karzai, who has led Afghanistan since the fall …
luishipolito.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/
afghan-leader-outmaneuvers-election-rivals/

NewsDaily: Kyrgyz parliament approves U.S. base deal
BISHKEK, June 6, 2009 (Reuters) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai has urged Kyrgyzstan to abandon plans to shut a U.S. military air base used to support operations in Afghanistan, a senior Kyrgyz official said on Saturday. …
www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre55o1dp-us-usa-kyrgyzstan-base/