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Michael Adebolajos dangerous ignorance about Afghanistan | Richard Kemp
'My own regiment did not fire a shot in anger in Afghanistan, and protected many Iraqi Muslims from the extremist killers.' Photograph: Sgt Rupert Frere ...
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Explosion in Afghan capital sends smoke rising over downtown Kabul
KABUL - An explosion has sent smoke rising over the heart of Afghanistan's capital. The strong blast was felt several kilometres (miles) away. An Associated Press cameraman who witnessed Friday's blast said it was near a hospital for the National Security Directorate, the state intelligence service. He said the blast collapsed a building wall, but was not clear if there were any ...
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NATO chief welcomes Romania spending more on defence thanks country for role in Afghanistan
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, center, approaches Romanian President Traian Basescu, right, at the Cotroceni presidential palace in Bucharest, Romania, Friday, May 24, 2013.(AP Photo/Vadim ...
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Combined Force Arrests Taliban Facilitator in Kandahar
From an International Security Assistance Force Joint Command News Release KABUL, Afghanistan, May 24, 2013 An Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban facilitator and two other insurgents during an operation in the Dand district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province today, military officials reported. The facilitator is a vital member of improvised explosive device networks ...
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Suicide bomber strikes vehicle of Afghan religious leader killing 3 people in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Police say a suicide bomber walked up to a vehicle owned by an Afghan religious leader in northwestern Pakistan and set off his explosives, killing three people. The leader, Haji Hayatullah, was not harmed in the attack in Peshawar city because he was in a nearby mosque attending Friday prayers. Police officer Riaz Ali Shah says Hayatullah's driver and guard were ...
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Mass. soldier killed in Afghanistan remembered
PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Family and friends are paying final respects to a soldier from Massachusetts killed in Afghanistan.A funeral Mass with full military honors for U.S. Army Spc. Mitchell Daehling is scheduled for Friday at St. Agnes Church in Dalton. He will receive the Bronze Star and Purple Heart posthumously.Daehling was killed by an improvised explosive device May 14.The Dalton resident ...
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UK soldier killed in London in reprisal for Afghanistan and Iraq wars
The killing of drummer Lee Rigby, 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, near London's Woolwich army barracks on Wednesday was a horrific act. Rigby was first run down by two men in a car, who then set about him with knives and a cleaver.One of the men who carried out the killing was identified as Michael Adebolajo, a 28-year-old British citizen of Nigerian descent. The other has only ...
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Woolwich attack Suspect Michael Adebolajolost friend in Iraq Drummer Lee Rigby feared for his girlfriend in Afghanistan
ONE of the men allegedly behind the brutal slaying of soldier Lee Rigby had to himself be consoled by friends in 2007 after a soldier mate was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. Two terror suspects shot by police in Woolwich remain under arrest in hospital. They were named as Michael Adebolajo, originally of Romford, Essex, and Michael Oluwatobi Adebowale, 22, of Greenwich, South East London The ...
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Obama warns of new terror threats
Sept. 11 , 2001, the country is more secure and fewer U.S. troops are in harm's way, Obama said while speaking at the U.S. Defense Department's National Defense University in Washington. However, he warned: "Now, make no mistake, our nation is still threatened by terrorists. From Benghazi to Boston, we have been tragically reminded of that truth. But we have to recognize that the ...
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Women on the Afghan frontlines to fight Taliban
Kabul: The women of Afghanistan have the worst to fear from the return of the Taliban, but not everyone is waiting for someone else to write the script of their lives. On the outskirts of Kabul, at the special forces base, we meet Najla, one of the first and few female soldiers in Afghanistan. Najla has taken part in every operation of her unit and is getting ready to fight the extremists who ...
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Intelligence Analyst Obama Made A Promise He Cant Keep
Anthony Cordesman is a former director of intelligence assessment for the U.S. secretary of defense’s office and a recipient of the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Medal. He now holds the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He gave RFE/RL Washington Bureau Chief Heather Maher his thoughts ...
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Pen pals reunited Reservists from Afghanistan meet the sixth-graders who wrote them letters
Navy reservist Joes Boza does pushups with 6th graders (red shirt) Alex Garbee and (stripped shirt) Kaelan Joseph as their classmates from Pembroke Pines Charter Middle School watched Thursday morning during a visit. The school wrote letters to naval reservists on tour in Afghanistan. The soldiers recently made the trip home and offered to visit the students that wrote them every few weeks. The ...
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Head of Afghanistan Turkish Industrialists Businessmens Association was kidnapped…
KABUL - A Turkish businessman was kidnapped by armed assailants in Afghanistan late on Sunday.Sami Yavuz, head of Afghanistan Turkish Industrialists & Businessmen's Association, was kidnapped at around 11:40 p.m. on Sunday.Armed assailants forced 41-year-old Yavuz to get on a car, and kidnapped him in Kabul.Yavuz has been living in Kabul with his family for more than ten years.Afghan ...
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Pizza delivery to U.S. service members in Afghanistan dubbed largest
Mark Evans , a retired Air Force master sergeant and founder of nonprofit group Pizza 4 Patriots, said Guinness officials notified him that last summer's massive pizza delivery to U.S. service members in Kandahar, Bagram and Camp Bastion was officially the world's largest pizza delivery, ABC News reported Thursday. Evans said he is "completely pleased and overwhelmed" by the ...
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Afghan Law on Elimination of Violence against Women is aimed at Importing More Western Liberal Values into Afghanistan through the Back Door
On the 18th of May, the BBC, CBC, the UK Guardian and many news outlets worldwide reported that the debate in the Afghan Parliament regarding the Law on Elimination of Violence Against Women (LEVAW) was halted by some Afghan lawmakers who argued that some parts of it violate Islamic principles. The law took effect in 2009 by a decree by President Hamid Karzai but was not ratified by Parliament. ...
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Soldier killed in Woolwich attack identified as veteran of Afghanistan
Afghanistan . Army officials said Lee Rigby, 25, nicknamed Riggers, was married with a 2-year-old son, The Guardian reported. He enlisted in 2006 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009. Rigby, apparently targeted because he was wearing a T-shirt for the soldiers' charity Help for Heroes, was hacked to death Wednesday outside the Royal Artillery Barracks in the Woolwich district of ...
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Terror slay soldier IDd as Lee Rigby - survived Afghan war only be killed by extremist at home
The solider brutally slaughter on the streets of London was identified today as an Afghan war veteran and loving father of a 2-year-old boy, British military officials said.Lee "Riggers" Rigby, a 25-year-old Manchester native, survived the war in Afghanistan only to be brutally hacked to death in broad daylight in the south central London neighborhood of Woolwich yesterday. His fellow ...
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London Victim IDed as 25-Year-Old Afghan Vet
Drummer Lee Rigby, or ‘Riggers’ to his friends, was born in July 1987 in Crumpsall, Manchester. He joined the Army in 2006 and on successful completion of his infantry training course at Infantry Training Centre Catterick he was selected to be a member of the Corps of Drums and posted to 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (also known as "Second Fusiliers" or ...
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Slain UK soldier was father served in Afghanistan
By Ian Johnston, Staff Writer, NBC News The British soldier brutally killed in London in a suspected terror attack was a drummer in a military band who had served in Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.Lee Rigby, 25, known as "Riggers" to his friends, ...
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Mes Aynak highlights Afghanistans dilemma over protecting heritage
Artefacts such as a Buddhist sculpture have been extracted from the Mes Aynak archaeology site where miners want to extract rich deposits of copper. Photograph: Jay Price/Getty ...
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Afghan mine delays at ancient site delight archaeologists
Afghanistan throng with the biggest crowds they have seen in more than 14 centuries. Nearby, rows of sheet metal housing built for Chinese miners are almost empty.Hundreds of archaeologists are working at the site to excavate gilded statues of the Buddha, elaborate stupas that rise from ornately carved floors and delicate frescoes protected by centuries of mud and forgetfulness. The rich vein of ...
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Taliban car bomb kills 13 in Quetta
QUETTA // A large bomb hidden by the Taliban in a rickshaw exploded as a police vehicle passed in south-west Pakistan yesterday, killing 11 policemen and two civilians, police said. The bombing on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, came on the same day as fighting in the restive north-west left four soldiers dead. Police claimed 20 militants also died in those ...
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Afghan students protest women’s rights decree
Burqa clad women in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan - Hard-line Islamist students protested Wednesday in the Afghan capital demanding the repeal of a presidential decree for women's rights that they say is un-Islamic. It was the latest sign of a backlash against the legal protections passed in the 12 years since the toppling of the Taliban regime known for its harsh treatment of women.The ...
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The sooner the US exits Afghanistan the better | Matthew Hoh and Matthew Southworth
A new female recruit of the Afghanistan police force during a training session south of Herat, western Afghanistan. Photograph: Raheb ...
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Father of Afghan cricket captain kidnapped by unknown gunmen
Sydney, May 23 : The father of the captain of the Afghanistan cricket team has been abducted by unknown gunmen from his car from the outskirts of the city of Jalalabad in the eastern province of Nangarhar, according to ...
Afghanistan Feature
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Why should American troops remain in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan is widely regarded, even by its own people, as a puppet state, and has little hope of breaking away from US influence in the foreseeable future, there is wide-spread resentment toward foreign troops, and increasingly loud calls in the states for a withdrawal of troops. But, like or not, these two countries have been tied together irrevocably, even before the war on terror.
Since the invasion of Afghanistan by allied forces in 2001, the country’s destiny has in many ways not been its own. Read more
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