Archive for the ‘afghanistan’ Category
Friday, December 14th, 2007
Hundreds of thousands of holiday cards and letters thanking wounded American troops for their sacrifice and wishing them well never reach their destination. They are returned to sender or thrown away unopened.Read the full story
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
(AP) Hundreds of Islamic militants seized a town in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday after outnumbered security forces laid down their arms, militants and police said.Read the full story
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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
TEHRAN - A university in Iran has invited U.S. President George W. Bush to visit and discuss issues including terrorism and the Holocaust, a week after his Iranian counterpart visited a university in New York.Read the full story
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Mr. Wood said the current American programs for eradication, interdiction and alternative livelihoods should be intensified, but he added that spraying poppy crops with herbicide remained “a possibility.” Afghan and British officials have opposed spraying, saying it would drive farmers into the arms of the Taliban.Read the full story
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
US troops fighting in Iraq will have to do so with at least 1,000 fewer special armored vehicles, says the Pentagon, due to the amount of the time required for shipment.
Reuters reports on Wednesday that Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell announced that the Defense Department expected defense contractors to produce 3,900 ...
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Friday, July 13th, 2007
MIRAN SHAH, Pakistan - At least eight soldiers were killed Saturday when a suicide attacker struck a military convoy with his explosive-laden vehicle in northwestern Pakistan, the army spokesman said.Read the full story
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
US military officials have admitted civilians were among those killed in a US-led air raid on a village in Afghanistan.
Locals say more than 100 people, many of them women and children, died in the US-led attacks on a village close to the frontline in Helmland province.
Dur Ali Shah, Gereshk district ...
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Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
Saddam Hussein urged Iraqis to embrace ''brotherly coexistence'' and not to hate U.S.-led foreign troops in a goodbye letter posted on a Web site Wednesday, a day after Iraq's highest court upheld his death sentence and ordered him hanged within 30 days.Read the full story
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