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Secret services 'acting like death squads'

News – Western secret services in Afghanistan are acting like South American "death squads'', a United Nations human rights expert claims. Prof Richard Alston of the UN's Human Rights Council, said the intelligence agencies…

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Teacher Killed After Calling Suicide Bombings Un-Islamic

News – A teacher was shot to death in northern Afghanistan after he gave a speech condemning suicide bombings, it was revealed today. Abdul Hadi claimed the attacks were un-Islamic and un-Afghan during a speech yesterday…

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Stolen Night-Vision Helping to Kill US Soldiers

News – Thefts and illegal exports of advanced military night-vision gear are rising sharply and U.S. officials say some of the equipment has reached enemies in Afghanistan and Iraq,

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Afghan Teacher Killed After Speech Condemning Homicide Bombings

News – Yet another example of Islamic terrorism and a graphic illustration of my point in the previous post, Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace, Islam is a religion of terror and hatred, a religion of submission or death…

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Afghans Swap Poppies For Wheat as Food Costs Soar

Food – Afghan farmers hope to capitalise on soaring food costs by growing wheat instead of poppy crops, with the fall in heroin prices further fuelling the switch.

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What 8 years of Bush-Cheney have done to the world

Politics – This record of the Bush administration's performance on international matters - a factual accounting of the Bush legacy - helps explain why 81% of the American people presently say that our country is headed in…

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Military analysts noted 4,500 times

Politics – A Media Matters review found that since January 1, 2002, the analysts named in Barstow's article -- many identified as having ties to the defense industry -- collectively appeared or were quoted as experts more…

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Pat Tillman's mom: Account of death may not be true

Do No Evil – Pat Tillman's mom suspects the military's account of how fellow soldiers shot and killed her son in Afghanistan is still not the true story, 4 years later, according to her new book. She strongly suspects the men…

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Bush: Not Just Another Father of the Bride

Politics – When Bush gave Jenna away, he wasn't thinking of her wedding as a political act. He was just another happy Dad and she was simply a thrilled new bride. But when you're President of the United States, you carry the…

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Attack Iran? Why Not Just Paint Targets on the Backs of…

Politics – Like a bad penny, the administration's threat to attack Iran keeps turning up.

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Return to Sender - Iraq Veteran Gets the Call Again

Politics – As terrible as this might sound, whenever someone asks me about enlisting, I'm tempted to encourage them. I figure that the more people who enlist, the slimmer the chances that I'll get called back up. But of course…

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Afghanistan Unplugs Bollywood's Siren Song

Celebrities – These serials are against Afghan culture. They are anti-Islamic and bad for the Afghan people," says Abdul Qadir, a 20 year-old student, on the government decision to ban the wildly popular Indian soap operas

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Al-Qaeda is dwindling in Afghanistan and Iraq

Do No Evil – The most interesting discovery during a visit to Jalalabad, where Osama bin Laden planted his flag in 1996, is that Al-Qaeda seems to have all but disappeared. The group is on the run, too, in Iraq, and that raises…

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More Than 43,000 Unfit Troops Deployed

News – More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show.

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Two RAF Troopers Killed In Afghanistan

News – Two servicemen from the RAF Regiment were killed in a roadside blast in southern Afghanistan, according to the Ministry of Defence.The pair died during the explosion in Kandahar Province on Sunday 13 April at 1848…

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Indus Valley Civilisation-Economic Conditions

News – Indus valley people were simple people. They commonly used simple wheat, barley bread, milk products, pork, beef, mutton, poultry and fish. Perhaps vegetables were also included in the diet.

Marines ignore Afghan opium so as not to upset locals
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Marines ignore Afghan opium so as not to upset locals

News – The Marines of Bravo Company's 1st Platoon sleep beside a grove of poppies. Troops in the 2nd Platoon playfully swat at the heavy opium bulbs while walking through the fields. Afghan laborers scraping the plant's…

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Bush Administration Assists Afghanistan with Opium Production

News – There has been a dangerous, but very interesting shell game going on in the opuium fields of Afghanistan that is primarily dictated by the policies of the Bush Administration and carried out by the...

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We don't have any more soldiers to send to Afghanistan unless…

News – We don't have any more soldiers to send to Afghanistan unless we take some out of Iraq.

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Evidence: Americans Friends With Talebans

News – Marines ignore Taleban cash crop of opium.

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Iraq war strains U.S. army mental health system

Health & Fitness – Fort Drum is a test case for how the military is handling a looming mental health crisis. The military and its critics agree on one thing - there are not enough therapists to treat all the soldiers who return from…

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Which is worse? Heroin or the Taliban?

News – In the US, we have a major heroin problem. We put the people away who use it, sell it, and smuggle it. in the country where it is made, we do nothing but go after the profiteers. The farmers and the manufacturers…

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83rd Canadian Soldier Killed in Afghanistan

News – A Canadian soldier is dead and another wounded Tuesday in a gun battle with Taliban militants outside of Kandahar.

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GI's Graphic Afghan Firefight Recorded on Family's Voice…

News – Phillips was on patrol when his unit engaged the Taliban. Not only did a firefight ensue, but his cell phone automatically called the Petee home, leaving a three-minute frightening message laced with the sounds…

Civilian employees: Wounded in war, ill-treated at home
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Civilian employees: Wounded in war, ill-treated at home

Do No Evil – The federal government is not doing enough to help some civilian employees wounded while deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Civilian employees do not fall under the military disability system. Their injuries aren't…

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