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Afghan Oasis is located inside the Shattuck Hotel at 2086 Allston Way near Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California. The Lucre Lounge is right next door. The office phone number is 510-841-3176. Call 510-499-2637 for reservations.This is a large restaurant that can be used for weddings, corporate events and other parties.Here's the Afghan Oasis website for more restaurant info, including their menu and pictures of their dishes. The site also has pics of the interior of this Berkeley restaurant.

IHT - Abdul Hadi criticized such attacks as un-Islamic and un-Afghan during a speech Tuesday in the Archi district of Kunduz province, said Khair Mohammad Subat, the provincial education department director.Hadi spoke at a gathering of about 700 people, including the Kunduz governor, and was on his way home when he was killedIn January, Education Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar said the number of st

Radical Islam has an ugly foothold in many Islamic dominated countries and Afghanistan is right in the middle of it.  Does anyone actually believe this part of the world can be reformed by “winning the hearts and minds” of Afghans?  I’m not so sure… AP - Afghan teacher killed after speech condemning suicide bombings KABUL, Afghanistan: A [...]

Even if peace is achieved in Iraq, the United States Marines will remain on active duty, but this time it will be in the mountains and valleys of Afghanistan. Senior Pentagon officials say the prpoposed shift of large numbers of Marines out of Iraq and into Afghanistan is back on the drawing board. According to [...]

The Marines of Bravo Company, 1st Platoon, sleep beside a field of poppies as Afghan workers quietly gather up the opium bulbs. The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit has moved into southern Helmand province which is the world’s largest largest opium poppy-growing region. But, unlike the foolish policies of the Bush administration, the Marines are not [...]

Nearly seven years have passed since the American invasion of Afghanistan supposedly ended the rule of the Taliban, but recent events reveal the war that was over is stiill thriving in the chaotic condtions of the Karzai government. Authorities have arrested two government officials who had linke to the assassination plot which nearly killed President [...]

Part 1 of 5US war crimes in Afghanistan - Filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre. Under the watch of American troops prisoners of war have been executed in the desert or left to suffocate in containers.Produced and directed by Irish filmmaker and former BBC producer Jamie Doran, 2004.

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Here at the Seminal we teamed up with Veracifier.com to produce this video of Afghan students from the University of Kabul speaking about their thoughts on the current situation in Afghanistan. Filmed during my visit to Bucharest for the Young Atlanticists Summit the students were part of a group that had won a scholarship to come to Bucharest and meet with other young people from NATO countries. Amongst the many interesting things that were said by the students was the stress they placed on the need to negotiate with the Taliban who they saw as fellow citizens.

Among the hopes of ending the Taliban regime in Afghanistan was to elminiate its brutality in which hundres were executed for various offenses against the government. The US Based Human Rights Watch is asking President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan to refrain from signing execution orders for about 100 prisoners and declare a moratorium on the [...]

Today as I was just looking at different sites around the net I came across many calendars for different countries and as I was thinking, I came across this idea that why I just create some myself for Afghan calendar. So here is a beginning of Afghan Calendar series. It’s not so much good looking [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Militants killed 17 road workers in Afghanistan’s lawless south Tuesday, part of a spike in violence that has left 40 people dead in two days. Sixteen other construction workers were wounded in the attack in Zabul’s Shinkay district, said Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary. Afghan and international security forces responding to [...]

The future generation of Afghan women. Nushin Arbabzadah, an Afghan writer and journalist, addresses the persistence of fundamental Islam in Afghanistan despite being “liberated” by the United States almost seven years ago. Misogynist laws are being passed by Afghan lawmakers that will further deny women equal rights. And these same lawmakers present themselves differently to various groups. They show their willingness to the West to embrace democracy while to fundamentalists they display their Islamic credentials. While Arbabzadah doesn't address the issue specifically, the article is illustrative of the fact that democracy at gunpoint really doesn't solve the issues that come with the heavily ingrained cultural and religious aspects of the country. Two-Faced Government By Nushin Arb

More US troops for Afghan force The US intends to send a "significant" number of extra troops to aid Nato's effort in Afghanistan in 2009, Defence Secretary Robert Gates said.The unspecified increase will come regardless of whether US troop levels in Iraq are reduced later this year.US President George W Bush had told Nato leaders about the anticipated troop boost during their summit in Romania, Mr Gates said.The US currently has about 17,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan."The president indicated that he expected in 2009 that the United States would make a significant additional contribution," said Mr Gates.He was speaking to reporters on his plane as he flew from the Bucharest summit to the Gulf state of Oman.'Bipartisan support'The defence secretary added combating Taleban insurgents in

US Military Statistics areMisleading and Wrong andDeliberately so.On June 29 2005, the Veterans Administration (an official U.S. body) admitted to the U.S. Congress that while there were over 103,000 U.S. military casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the official figures at the time were showing 13,000 casualties.A senior Pentagon official confirmed on the condition of anonymity that the actual death toll of U.S. service personnel as of 1st May 2006 in Iraq was in excess of 12,000. The real number of casualties – i.e. those unable to return to active service - is in excess of 150,000. He also confirmed that all reports from the U.S. military in Iraq confirmed that Iraqi resistance to the occupation growing better organized and more deadly by the day.Those Not Counted1. Soldiers kil

Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on American logistics and military support in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban. But to arm the Afghan forces that it hopes will lead this fight, the American military has relied since early last year on a fledgling [...]

A report by the Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief clams too much money destined to help the people lof afghanistan is spent on foreign worker high salaries, security and their living arrangements. Since 2001, the international community has pledged $25 billion in help but has only delivered $15 billion to the people of [...]

eFluxMedia Bomb kills 5 Pakistan soldiers near Afghan borderLos Angeles Times - 43 minutes agoThe attack on a military compound in volatile tribal region comes as Cheney meets in Afghanistan with President Karzai. By Laura King, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — A suicide bomber Thursday rammed his explosives-laden car into …Ousted chief justice urges [...]

One attempted against suicidal one with a car-bomb killed five Pakistani soldiers in this thursday (20). according to military of the country, the attack occurred close to the border with the Afeganistão. Others nine soldiers had been wounded in the attempted against one, occurred in the main city of the Waziristão of the South, Wana. The information was divulged in an official notice of the Army of the Pakistan. One gives credit that on members of the Al-Qaeda and to the Taleban operate in the remote tribal area next to the Afeghanistan. The Pakistani troops had faced hard battles in the region, in the last years. The forces led for the United States located close to the Afghan border already had also carried through combats in the area. Two vehicles had been damaged in the attemp

Am I not dreaming? Are they saying there is an American Idol type of show in Afghanistan? After telling somebody to hit me, I realized that I was not dreaming. There indeed is such a show called the Afghan Star.Lima Sahar, a woman contestant from the conservative Pashtun belt is now one of the top three contenders tipped to win the Afghan Star.Indeed so, it is time to give the woman a chance to

RPG Cables Ltd informed the market that they have got orders worth 25 million us dollar or 100 crore rs for supply of Medium Voltage and Low Voltage Cables of various sizes to Kabul Distribution Enhancement Project, Afghanistan .The QTR sales for them is equal to the order they have got here . But the company is [...]

  This newly discovered mural is from one of 12 caves in Afghanistan’s Bamian Valley found to contain oil- and resin-based paintings. Scientists say the murals represent the world’s earliest known use of oil-based binders in painting.

A similar plan for Afghanistan is to drop cheap cell phones, that can also receive radio broadcasts, in Taliban dominated areas. These broadcasts would come from U.S. psyops aircraft or blimps overhead, that would transmit useful programming (weather reports, health, farming religious messages from moderate imams, husbandry tips and local and national news). The cell phone would only be able to

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To most Americans, the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan is an inconsequential pile of rocks on the other side of the world - if they’ve even heard of it. But the FATA is where Al Qaeda was born 20 years ago amid the Soviet war next door in Afghanistan. Today, it’s the staging area for both a resurgent Al Qaeda and the Taliban waging war against American troops on the Afghan side of the border. On Sunday, we reported in the New York Daily News that white European Al Qaeda...(read more)

By John Hinkley Origin: The Afghan Hound is a very ancient breed. This dog has been mentioned several times in the Egyptian papyruses as well as pictured in caves of Northern Afganistan more than 4,000 years ago. This beautiful sighthound was used as a shepard and hunter for many centuries, hunting such game as deer, wild boars, [...]

Article Title: Afghan Hound Dog Breed ExplainedAuthor: John E AdamsAfghan Hound. Royal heir to the throne! Afghan hounds, also known as Tazi in their homeland, is aparticularly beautiful breed of dog whose history dates backthousands of years. It is considered the national dog breed of Afghanistan and formany years, Afghan hounds were not permitted to leave thecountry. It is only within the last hundred years that Afghan houndshave come to the attention of American and Europe dog breeds. It wasn't until the 1930s that they were recognized by the AKCand CKC as a distinct breed. The Afghan hound is easily distinguished by it's long, sleekcoat, which may come in any color or pattern, and its feathery,curly tail. This points to its long history as a hunting dog in themountains of Afghanistan, where it was used to hunt down localpredators and pests like wolves and foxes as well as foodanimals like gazelle. Though these dogs are quite tall, they are also fairly lightand t

The Afghan Whigs fueron un grupo musical de Cincinnati, Estados Unidos. Su estilo era un rock alternativo con toques de soul. Durante su andadura en la década de los 90 tuvieron un éxito moderado y han sido considerados como «na de las más aclamadas bandas alternativas de los 90. Editaron seis álbumes de estudio y un puñado de singles y EPs. O allTRIBES divulga 3 dos 6 albuns de estúdio da banda!1990 Up in It4 all TRIBES: download 1992 Congregation4 all TRIBES: download1993 Gentlemen4 all TRIBES: downloadProcurem outros artistas no nosso Índice "Artistas da Tribo"all TRIBES 4 all

President Bush's six-year invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq will end up costing Americans about $1.5 trillion, or nearly twice as much as the White House has actually spent to fight its wars, because of unseen costs like inflation, rising oil prices and expensive care for wounded veterans. An independent investigation is needed to find out how much of that $1.5 trillion is corporate profit and theft.read more | digg story

By: Eulalia Culbert You will need a 40 inch by 60-inch material to finish your Afghan. Once you have the finish you can start building your materials. How to choose materials: It’s up to you what type of Afghan you want to create, however in this article I will show you a few steps in my the “Ivy League.” You want to select deep, vivid colors. Ultimately, you can select soft fabrics. You will need wool, preferably the heavy-duty. Purchase 45 ounces of aqua, red, etc, in a variety of colors. Choose 22 ounces of red, light green; dark greens, forest green, etc, and blue. Choose 28 ounces of red and navy blue in a variety of colors. You will need to purchase a hook, preferably the “K” crocheting hook. The gauge is around 6 ½ squares, which you can purchase a hook that matches this gauge also. How to square: Use a variety of colored yarns in succession per square. If you want to shift colors, it is best to avoid chain stitching at the end of your lines. Start turning your work u

Deaths mark grim Afghan, Iraq milestones(AP) AP - Militants ambushed and killed six U.S. troops walking in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan the most lethal attack in a year that has been the deadliest for the U.S. military here since the 2001 invasion. Aussie voters said to prefer seeing Labor leader nude(Reuters) Reuters - More Australian voters would like tosee Labor Opposition leader Kevin Rudd naked than their currentprime minister, John Howard, a poll showed on Sunday just twoweeks out from a hard-fought general election. Australian plan to shoot wild horses provokes outrage(AFP) AFP - An Australian state government's plans to shoot more than 10,000 wild horses to protect the environment were Sunday attacked by some animal rights activists as inhumane. Clash in Iraq kills 18 al-Qaida members(AP) AP - Former Sunni insurgents asked the U.S. to stay away, then ambushed members of al-Qaida in Iraq, killing 18 in a battle that raged for hours north of Baghdad, an ex-insurge

Hi all,Just returned to the cold of England, after a lovely week on the Costa del Sol. During my hol's I read THE AFGHAN. Great book if you have any interest in the behind the scenes of American & British Secret Services. The Afghan is Izmat Khan, who made his reputation fighting the Soviets. Then, during the Afghan civil war following the USSR's withdrawal, Khan became a Taliban commander battling against the Anglo-American supported Northern Alliance. After being captured and participating in the Qala-i-Jangi prison rebellion, Izmat was spirited off to the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay to be imprisoned there for four years. Meanwhile, the CIA and MI6 catch whiff of a new Al Qaeda plot code named "al-Isra", which, in Islamic tradition, was the Prophet Muhammad's journey

A major battle has been fought today in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, a mountainous region in the south that is sick with Taliban fighters and is often the scene of frequent fighting. Most extraordinary is that the U.S. military is claiming to have slaughtered at least 84 Taliban who ambushed a patrol of "coalition forces" - typically code for a Green Beret unit - and Afghan National Security Forces. ANSF are essentially Pashtun tribal militiamen who operate almost exclusively with U.S. Army Special...(read more)

A dog tag found in the wreckage of a helicopter shot down during Operation Red Wing, where 19 troops died on June 28, 2005. Click on the photo for the full-size image. U.S. Army-Chuck Meseke This week, we reported in the New York Daily News about the first Medal of Honor from the war in Afghanistan , which President Bush presented posthumously Monday at the White House to the parents of Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy of Patchogue, Long Island. (It's worth noting that at the time of Murphy's heroic...(read more)

Afghan Residents Say Security Declining - The Associated Press TVNZ Afghan Residents SaySecurityDecliningThe Associated Press -11 hours agoKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Afghans believe thesecuritysituation in their country has deteriorated, compared with last year, but they say life is better now…Afghan Survey Reports Dramatic Increase inSecurityConcernsVoice of AmericaAfghanSecurityConcerns Rise With Strife, Poll FindsNew York TimesSecurityfears up sharply among Afghans: surveyReliefWeb (press release)Bernamaall 90 news articles Bookmark to:

Afghan security remains a challenge - The Statesman WHDH-TV Afghansecurityremains a challengeThe Statesman, India -Oct 22, 2007He said thesecurityis a major challenge for strife-torn Afghanistan. Although there was a dip in violence in the last two months, the number of violent…Nato strike'kills Afghan family'Aljazeera.netNato air raid'kills civilians'BBC NewsAfghan Officials: NATO Air Strike Kills at Least 11 CiviliansVoice of AmericaMiddle East Times -International Herald Tribuneall 147 news articles Afghan Residents Say Security Declining - The Associated Press TVNZ Afghan Residents SaySecurityDecliningThe Associated Press -11 hours agoKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Afghans believe thesecuritysituation in their country has deteriorated, compared with last year, but they say life is better now…Afghan Survey Reports Dramatic Increase inSecurityConcernsVoice of AmericaAfghanSecurityConcerns Rise With Strife, Poll FindsNew Yor

O.K. kids, time to stop with the playful kidding around for a bit. I got this comment direct from Afghanistan and I am pleased to learn there are groups like this springing up.It's a comment on the piece I did last week on the Bedouin guy in Israel who had eight wives and 60 or 70 kids. (No one seems to know for sure!) Not everyone reads the comments section so I want to draw attention to this group here and urge you to support them in any way possible.Muslims Against Sharia said...Muslims Against Sharia condemn treatment of women by the State of Israel. Government-sanctioned polygamy is unbecoming of a country that claims to be the only true Democracy in the Middle East. We call on Israeli Knesset to immediately enact a law prohibiting married men to marry more women. No civilized society of the 21st century can permit this medieval practice. No civilized society treat its women as less than human beings.You see? It's not just the Arab States that condone Sharia Law. I replied!Thank

This Associated Press report was just too brutal in its reality not to cross-post. (Thanks to Jihad Watch.) KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Taliban militants hanged a teenager in southern Afghanistan because he had U.S. money in his pocket, and they stuffed five $1 bills in his mouth as a warning to others not to use dollars, police said Monday. Taliban militants elsewhere killed eight police. The 15-year-old boy was hanged from a tree on Sunday in Helmand, the most violent province in the country and the world’s No. 1 poppy-growing region. “The Taliban warned villagers that they would face the same punishment if they were caught with dollars,” said Wali Mohammad, the district police chief in Sangin. Dollars are commonly used in Afghanistan alongside the afghani, the local currency, although the U.S. currency is more commonly seen in larger cities where international organizations are found. Militants often justify their attacks and executions as a response to U.S. meddlin

Hundreds of Afghan protestors marched through the streets of Khandar shouting ‘Death to Canada” and “Death to Foreigners” after a series of Coalition raids led to the death of an important religious leader and his brother. Their bodies still lay in the open as demonstrators proclaimed their anger at what they believed to be a botched raid that was probably the result of incorrect information provided by an informer. A Canadian reporter was told, The day is not far off when these innocent civilians will stand against NATO and other foreign troops.” During the past several months hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent civilians have either been killed by the Taliban or by coalition forces. The use of bombing raids invariably results in killing innocent bystanders since Taliban forces hide among villagers. We are living in the aftermath of America’s failure to follow through on its successful invasion of Afghanistan by using a large army to decisively

US General Dan McNeill, on a visit to NATO headquarters in Brussels, said he had made suggestions about what else the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) could do to NATO's top military and civilian commanders. But he insisted that ISAF, whose aim is to provide security so that Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government can spread its influence throughout the insurgency hit country, should not start destroying poppy fields.NATO officials acknowledge privately that the sight of soldiers ripping up opium crops would probably undermine their efforts to win the confidence of ordinary Afghans and turn them away from their former Taliban rulers."The fundamental principle is that the Afghans must take the lead for very obvious political reasons," added NATO spokesman James Appathurai.Afghanistan produces about 93 percent of the world's production illegal opium, the raw ingredient for heroin.The crop jumped by a third this year, helped by good rainy weather, despite international

Frederick Forsyth's The Afghan is based on the problem that Western intelligence agencies have in fighting Islamist terrorism by infiltrating terrorist groups with agents who can pass for the real thing. It is next to impossible that they will ever successfully pull off something like that. SAS officer Mike Martin could, however, very well be the exception to the rule and, when British and

Prior to the US invasion of Afghanistan, anyone with even a glimmering of understanding of the nation understood the importance of poppy to the average farmer. A recent letter to the Stars& Stripes contained the argument for burning poppy fields. In response, Sgt. 1st Class Danielle Belliveau stated what President Bush should have understood [...]

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The New York Times ponders the role of religion in Western society today. Jamaica has been hammered by Hurricane Dean. In other weather-related news: At least a dozen people have died as a result of severe weather and flooding in the midwestern states. Kagro X takes to school mainstream journalists who “don’t get” bloggers. A German woman who was kidnapped in Kabul, Afghanistan has been released; nineteen South Koreans who were taken mid-July are still being held hostage; two women who were released arrived home Friday. Climate campaigners at London’s Heathrow Airport came face-to-face with the police Sunday night when eight campaigners were arrested. Members of the group Camp for Climate Action have been living in a camp they set up outside Heathrow to protest the airport’s expansion. Workshops and demonstrations are also part of the week-long campaign intended to educate people about the causes and effects of global warming. Their method of

I wonder if the Taliban field trips to the beheading stadium were more fun? Afghan children return from Poland field trip The Afghan students who just returned from their field trip to Poland wave while at the Polish military compound at Bagram Airfield Aug. 9. Photo by Spc. Micah E. Clare. 10 Aug 07 By Spc. Micah E. Clare 4th Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs Office AGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan—School field trips provide critical exposure to new experiences and knowledge about the world, and for nearly 30 Afghan school children this was never more true when they recently visited Poland. => Read more!

This is a newspaper article from “The Reading Eagle” that appeared today in Reading, PA: About 300 people attend an appreciation picnic held by a statewide motorcycle club in Ontelaunee Township.Berks County, PA - Veterans of an unpopular war from the past honored those from another unpopular conflict Sunday at Blue Falls Grove in Ontelaunee Township.The Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club of Pennsylvania sponsored the picnic to show their appreciation for local Iraqi and Afghan war veterans and their families, said Bruce “Fuzz” Terreson, state president of the club.“We are all military,” said Terreson, 58. “If you don’t support the war that’s fine, but don’t let the troops down. They are doing their job.” At the Vietnam Vets Motorcycle Club of Pennsylvania picnic are,

New Delhi, Jul 24 (IANS) Afghanistan’s last monarch, King Mohammed Zahir Shah, who passed away on Monday at the age of 92, was a friend of India who enjoyed a personal rapport with Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. (more…)

Two Polish soldiers from the 1st Platoon, Company B, Polish Battle Group, show an Afghan boy how to fly his new kite June 24, 2007, in Andar District, Ghazni Province. Photo by Spc. Micah E. Clare. The Real Kite Runners flying the Afghan Skies 6 July 07 By Army Spc. Micah E. Clare 4th Brigade Combat Team Public Affairs Office, 82nd Airborne Division FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan — Even though best-selling books have painted pictures of Afghan children flying colorful kites high in blue skies against backdrops of snow-capped mountains that tower over quaint villages, not all Afghan children are fortunate enough to own such simple, yet wonderful toys. However, when the Polish Battle Group arrived in Ghazni province’s Andar district near the end of June, the local children were finally able to take part in an activity shared by children in almost all countries in the world: flying kites. While conducting patrols throughout Andar district during Operation Mai

The Afghan government and Nato have said publicly that figures for civilian casualties after military action are often exaggerated or fabricated.Lt-Col Maria Carl gave a press conference alongside the Afghan defence ministry spokesman, Gen Zahir Azimi. Lt-Col Carl said accounts of civilian casualties after military engagements often turned out to be inflated or completely fabricated. She gave recent examples, including village elders' accounts of more than 100 civilian deaths in western Afghanistan a few days ago. Lt-Col Carl said it was now clear that no civilians had died there, saying that in fact foreign and Afghan forces had moved villagers to safety. Gen Azimi from the defence ministry said the Taleban regularly forced villagers to phone media outlets with inflated figures, threatening to behead them if they did not do so. More...

Twelve children and a total of 17 people dead in this suicide attack in southern Afghanistan, according to the interior ministry: Another 30 people were injured, some seriously, in the attack on a market place in Dehrawood in Uruzgan province, where Taleban militants are active. The bomber blew himself up near a Nato-led convoy, police said. ... Many children were caught in the explosion as they were leaving classes near a crowded bazaar in Dehrawood. Source: "Children killed in Afghan blast," BBC News, July 10, 2007 Technorati tags: bad thinking • suicide attack • suicide bomber

Description: The Afghan Hound is a sighthound with an aristocratic bearing. Tall and slender with a long, narrow, refined head, silky topknot and powerful jaws. The occiput is quite prominent. The muzzle is slightly convex ("Roman nose") with a black nose. There is little or no stop. The teeth should meet in a level or scissors bite. The dark eyes are almond shaped. The ears lie flat to the head. The neck is long and strong. The height at the withers should be almost level and the abdomen well tucked up. The hipbones are quite prominent. The front legs are strong and straight and the feet are large and covered with long hair. The tail has a curl or ring at the tip, but is not carried over the back. The long, rich, silky coat is most often the color of sand with a darker face and ear fringes, though all colors are permitted.Temperament: Dignified, somewhat aloof, but very sweet, loyal, affectionate and sensitive, with a low dominance level. They must be trained kindly. The Afghan has be

Two people who'd been held hostage by Taliban and al Qaeda militants were rescued today by U.S. and Afghan forces during raids in the Zaghun Shah district of Afghanistan's Paktika province, U.S. officials reported. Intelligence indicated that three Afghan citizens from the district had recently been abducted by Taliban and al Qaeda fighters. During raids conducted today, U.S. and Afghan troops discovered one of the hostages being held at a compound, while another hostage held nearby was being led away by his captors to another location. The anti-insurgent forces chased down and captured the terrorists and freed one of the hostages. Another hostage was being held in a nearby compound. Coalition forces found and released him, too, but they met with armed resistance when attempting to get the militants to surrender. "The room was filled with armed Taliban and al Qaeda, and they were keeping the women and children who lived at the house close to them in order to protect themselves from t

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Press Association Thursday May 31, 2007 10:08 AM A helicopter which crashed in Afghanistan, killing a British soldier, is believed to have been brought down by Taliban fire, Nato officials said. The British serviceman was among seven people to die when the Chinook aircraft came down in Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province. "It was a hostile area, where the helicopter went down," said Major John Thomas, a spokesman for Nato's International Security Assistance Force. "Initial indications are that enemy fire may have brought down the helicopter." Other troops going to the scene were ambushed and had to call in air support to drive off their attackers. US officials also said initial reports suggested the helicopter was hit with a rocket-propelled grenade on Wednesday evening. The CH-47 Chinook was carrying a crew of five Americans and two military passengers, one British, the other Canadian, according to the US military. Major Thomas said that the wreckage remains on the site, whic

From the AP: By SADAQAT JAN, Associated Press WriterSun May 13, 3:06 PM ET Pakistani and Afghan forces exchanged fire at their rugged border Sunday in their most serious skirmish in years. Pakistan claimed it killed five Afghan soldiers, but Afghanistan said just two Afghan civilians were killed. Tension has been running high between Afghanistan and Pakistan, both key U.S. allies, over controlling their 1,510-mile shared border and stemming the flow of Taliban and al-Qaida militants that stage cross-border attacks inside Afghanistan. Pakistan's move to fence parts of the disputed frontier has also angered Afghanistan. Pakistan army spokesman Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad accused the Afghan army of firing first at Pakistani border posts: "This was unprovoked and without any reason." A Pakistan military statement said its troops returned fire and five Afghan soldiers were killed. On the Afghan side, Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi accused Pakistan

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April 22, 2007 - Coalition and Afghan forces killed two and captured 12 militants in separate raids yesterday. Combined forces killed one and captured nine in an early morning raid on a militant compound in Nangarhar province. The militants are suspected of coordinating several suicide attacks in recent weeks. In another early-morning raid yesterday in Helmand province, coalition and Afghan forces killed an armed suspect. Coalition and Afghan forces in Khowst province detained three men yesterday at a compound where militants are linked to the Haqqani network and suspected of extremist activities. One suspect was armed and was subdued by combined forces without incident. There were no injuries to any coalition or Afghan forces in any of the raids. On April 20, Afghan locals from the Qaleh Shahi Village, Nangarhar province, reported a munitions cache to Afghan National Police and coalition forces. The weapons cache, hidden in a vacant compound in the village, stored 15 82 mm recoilless

Coalition and Afghan National Army operations have blunted the Taliban spring offensive in eastern Afghanistan, Army Brig. Gen. Joseph Votel said at a Pentagon news conference today.Votel, the deputy commanding general for operations for Combined Joint Task Force 82, spoke to reporters via a video hook-up. Votel said coalition operations seem to have countered the long-anticipated Taliban spring offensive. "We have been more offensive than I think they have in our posturing and in our ability to dominate areas on the battlefield," Votel said. "As a result of that, I think we've seen a decrease in activities along the border. And our ability to be in more places, along with our Afghan national security force partners, has enabled us to address a broader area across Regional Command East." Coalition and Afghan leaders began preparing to counter the Taliban offensive over the winter. More NATO and U.S. troops are in the country, there is closer cooperation with Pakistani forces, and more

ossessed of the ultimate in beauty and grace, the Afghan Hound is truly a king among dogs. A true aristocrat, the stylish Afghan is an elegant, strong, dignified dog combining great speed and power. Originally bred for hunting, the Afghan Hound requires considerable exercise in order to maintain good physical condition, as well as a large yard in

Support for Canada's mission in Afghanistan has grown over the winter as memories of a wave of bloodshed during the summer and early autumn fades, says a new national poll provided exclusively to CanWest News Service.The online Jan. 8-10 survey of 2,206 Canadians by Innovative Research Group found 58 per cent of respondents support the military action compared with 38 per cent who are opposed.The opposition parties have largely failed to paint this war as another Iraq. Of course you have people on the centre-left that really don't know much about this issue and just see this as sucking up to the Americans...But 44 per cent agreed with the statement that the Conservatives are keeping troops in Afghanistan "because they want to make the U.S. happy."The poll, say Mr. Bercuson and Mr. Lyle, shows there are strong conditions attached to Canadians' support.Sixty per cent, up seven points from October, agreed that Canadians "are providing critical assistance to local Afghans and are trying

For those on the Canadian left that would have you think that Afghanistan is Canada's version of Iraq, that it's hopeless and we might as well get out, maybe they should listen to Former US President Bill Clinton."I promised myself that as long as the situation in Afghanistan persists, I would never come to Canada without thanking you for your participation through NATO in the effort to save a genuine moderate, pro-western democracy," he said. "I am grateful."Canada is "doing a good thing," Clinton said."Because we have to pursue both these things together: a security policy and a policy to create more partners and fewer terrorists."In an half-hour question and answer session with B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell after the speech, the two-term Democratic president urged the deployment of more troops."We have under-forced the mission there," he said. "We have 20,000 American troops there, 20,000 NATO troops there, and there are 140,000 troops in Iraq."He is urging the U.S. government to f

As GayandRight reports, a major survey done by the Asia Foundation shows that 44% believe that the country is headed in the right direction, whereas only 21% think it's headed in the wrong direction. Here's some other numbers:•77% said they were satisfied with the way democracy is working in Afghanistan.•Only 6% ranked security as the biggest problem in their area, behind unemployment (18%), electricity shortages (12%), poverty (10%), a weak economy (10%) and scarce water supplies (9%). Sixty percent said they rarely or never worried about their own safety. However, 22% said security was the biggest problem facing the nation.•54% said they were more prosperous than they were under the Taliban, which governed Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001; 26% felt less prosperous.•42% said corruption was a major problem in their daily lives, and 77% called it a major national problem; 51% of those who dealt with public health care officials reported paying bribes for health service.•Afghans

US Military statistics areMisleading and Wrong andDeliberately so.On June 29 2005, the Veterans Administration (an official U.S. body) admitted to the U.S. Congress that while there were over 103,000 U.S. military casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the official figures at the time were showing 13,000 casualties.A senior Pentagon official confirmed on the condition of anonymity that the actual death toll of U.S. service personnel as of 1st May 2006 in Iraq was in excess of 12,000. The real number of casualties – i.e. those unable to return to active service - is in excess of 150,000. He also confirmed that all reports from the U.S. military in Iraq confirmed that Iraqi resistance to the occupation growing better organized and more deadly by the day.Those Not Counted1. Soldiers killed or injured in any other way other than a direct bullet or bomb not counted.2. Soldier shot and/or wounded but died on a flight to a U.S. military hospital not counted. 3. Anyone who dies in hospit

BBC News:An Afghan man is being tried in a court in the capital, Kabul, for converting from Islam to Christianity. Abdul Rahman is charged with rejecting Islam and could face the death sentence under Sharia law unless he recants.[...] Rejecting Islam [...] is punishable by death in Afghanistan. Trial judge Ansarullah Mawlazezadah told the BBC that Mr Rahman, 41, would be asked to reconsider his conversion, which he made while working for a Christian aid group in Pakistan. "We will invite him again because the religion of Islam is one of tolerance (yeah... and I'm Santa Claus..). We will ask him if he has changed his mind. If so we will forgive him," the judge told the BBC on Monday. This is Islam. The Religion of Peace. Oh wait, or was it Peas??C.S. Lewis: "Above all else, the Devil cannot stand to be mocked."

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