28 November 2008
'Canadian Troops Complete Large Operation In Southern Afghanistan', CBC News, 28 November 2008
EXCERPT: "Canadian soldiers have just completed one of their largest operations ever in southern Afghanistan, killing 21 insurgent fighters and capturing several others, according to the Canadian military.
Operation Janubi Tapu 2 ? or 'southern vulture' ? was aimed at reducing the ability of the insurgents to attack Kandahar...
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28 November 2008
'Afghanistan Not In Crisis: UN Security Council', AFP, 28 November 2008
EXCERPT: "Afghanistan is not in a security crisis and disillusionment and recriminations about its situation should be avoided, a UN Security Council team said at the end of a three-day assessment tour.
There were even reasons for 'cautious optimism,' the delegation told reporters before wrapping up a visit which comes as attacks linked to the insurgency...
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28 November 2008
'Afghans Riot In Kabul After Civilian Killed', Swissinfo, 28 November 2008
EXCERPT: "Dozens of angry Afghans pelted police with stones after a U.S. military vehicle struck a van and one civilian was killed and three wounded in the Afghan capital Friday, officials and witnesses said.
Seething resentment against the presence of some 65,000 foreign troops is growing in Afghanistan after scores of Afghan civilians have been killed...
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28 November 2008
'Britain To Consider Afghanistan Troop Request', The Associated Press, 28 November 2008
EXCERPT: "Britain will carefully examine any request from the incoming U.S. administration to send more troops to Afghanistan, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said in an interview published Friday.
The U.K. government had previously said it should first be up to other allies to provide additional personnel as NATO seeks to increase its...
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27 November 2008
'Drugs Finance Taliban War Machine, Says UN Drug Tsar', United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 27 November 2008
EXCERPT: "The Afghan Opium Survey 2008 released today by the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows that opium has become less
important to the Afghan economy due to a decrease in cultivation,
production and prices. However, opium finances the Taliban war economy
and is a major source of revenue...
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27 November 2008
'French Aid Worker Pleads For Release On Afghanistan Kidnap Video', The Telegraph UK, 27 November 2008
EXCERPT: "Dany Egreteau, the French aid worker kidnapped in Afghanistan earlier this month has appeared in a video pleading for the payment of a ransom. In the film, Mr Egreteau is shown streaked with grime and held in chains, while unseen captors point the muzzles of two assault rifles at his head as he describes his captivity...
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27 November 2008
'Anger With Government After Suicide Attack', The National (UAE), 28 November 2008
EXCERPT: "A suicide attack near the US Embassy in Kabul killed four people on
Thursday, adding to a growing sense of anger and despair inside the
capital. The car bomber detonated himself about 8.30am local
time, just as US civilians were entering the massive fortified compound
100 metres away for Thanksgiving celebrations. Soon afterwards
Afghans...
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27 November 2008
'Winter Of Hunger Looms In Afghanistan', The Associated Press, 27 November 2008
EXCERPT: "The farmer squats barefoot on packed earth in front of his two-room
mud house. He has looked at his bags of wheat, he says, and counted the
days. Ghulam Sakhi, 50, says his family will run out of food in
mid-January ? only a third of the way through Afghanistan's frigid
winter. As the days shorten and the nights grow colder, this...
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26 November 2008
'Afghan Leader Complains US, NATO Aren't Succeeding', The Associated Press, 26 November 2008
EXCERPT: "Afghanistan's president sharply critiqued the seven-year Afghan war
Wednesday, complaining that U.S. and NATO troops haven't made life
better. The criticism came a day after he accused foreign forces of
undermining him with a 'parallel government' in the countryside. The
back-to-back barbs aimed at the...
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26 November 2008
'Rocket Hits NATO Truck Depot In Pakistan', The Associated Press, 26 November 2008
EXCERPT: "Suspected militants fired a rocket Wednesday that hit a terminal for
trucks carrying supplies to NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan,
underscoring the insurgents increasing hold over parts of northwest
Pakistan. The rocket was one of two fired late in the day in the
region's capital, Peshawar, said police officer Abdul Qadirwhich....
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