| September 23, 2008 | - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for vice president, visited New York City and met with world leaders from Afghanistan,
Iraq, and Colombia, as well as Henry Kissinger and Bono, and agreed to speak to the press. “It was great,” she said.
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CNN
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MSNBC
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| August 26, 2008 | - A United Nations investigation of last week's coalition airstrikes in Afghanistan found that the United States had killed 90 civilians, including 60 sleeping children.
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New York Times
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| August 1, 2008 | - American intelligence officials claimed that Pakistani spies helped plan the July 7 bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan,.
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NYT
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AFP via Breitbart
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NYT
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| July 19, 2008 | - Barack Obama began his week-long foreign tour in Afghanistan, where he met with President Hamid Karzai, and continued on to Iraq. There, he flew in a helicopter to the Green Zone with General David Petraeus. Before he left the United States, he was asked what he would say to foreign leaders. “I'm more interested in listening,” Obama replied, “than doing a lot of talking.”
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CNN
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New York Times
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Politico
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BBC
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| June 16, 2008 | -
Taliban forces raided a prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, allowing 870 prisoners to escape. Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened to send troops across the Pakistan border to fight the Taliban.
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Christian Science Monitor
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| May 26, 2008 | -
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier resigned shortly before his ex-girlfriend Julie Couillard told a television interviewer that Bernier had left classified NATO documents about Afghanistan in her apartment and had encouraged her to wear a low-cut blouse to his swearing-in in order to attract media attention. It subsequently came to light that Couillard, a former model, had lived with one member of the Quebec Hell's Angels (who was arrested for possession of submachine guns and marijuana, then turned police informant, and was found dead in a ditch), married and divorced another, and was marked for death by the head Angel, a man named “Mom.” “I don't care about her cleavage,” said MP Michael Ignatieff, deputy leader of the Liberal opposition. “But this stuff is not only my business, it is the business of all Canadians.” Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a Conservative, rejected calls for an investigation into the scandal.
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New York Times
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National Post
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| May 24, 2008 | - President George W. Bush gave a radio address for Memorial Day weekend, invoking the sacrifice of 4,071 U.S. soldiers in Iraq and 432 in Afghanistan. Later, for the last time in his capacity as President, he placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.
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AP
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Bloomberg.com
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| May 22, 2008 | - In Afghanistan, at Chaghcharan Airfield in Ghor, two civilians and a Lithuanian soldier were killed in protests over the shooting of a Koran in Iraq,.
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CNN.com
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| May 17, 2008 | - The Pentagon announced that it will build a permanent 40-acre detention complex in Afghanistan to replace crumbling Bagram prison. “This place,“ explained a military official regarding Bagram, ”was not made to keep people there indefinitely.”
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The New York Times
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| April 28, 2008 | - Suspected Taliban assailants in Kabul killed a tribal chief, a member of Parliament, and a ten-year-old boy in an attempt to assassinate Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
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International Herald-Tribune
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| April 18, 2008 | -
Suicide bombers struck in Gaza, Afghanistan, and Iraq. “We are seeing the globalization of suicide bombs,” said Mohammed Hafez, a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School; U.S. officials revealed that suicide bombing was on the rise, with more than 658 attacks worldwide last year, double the number in any of the past 25 years.
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Washington Post
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Calcutta News
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Canada East Online
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Washington Post
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| April 3, 2008 | - President George W. Bush snuck out early from a summit meeting on operations in Afghanistan,.
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Washington Post.com
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| March 27, 2008 | - It was revealed that a Miami Beach company supplied U.S. allies in Afghanistan with defective, 40-year-old, Chinese-made bullets; the president of the company, 22-year-old Efraim Diveroli of Miami Beach, has been a defense contractor since he was 18. “I'm basically just working,” Diveroli explained on his MySpace page, “and chilling with my boyz.”
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NYT
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Miami Herald
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MySpace
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| March 13, 2008 | - President George W. Bush spoke with soldiers in Afghanistan. “I'm a little envious,” he said via a remote video link. “It must be exciting for you—in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger.”
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Reuters
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| March 12, 2008 | - It was reported that the richest man in Great Britain, the Duke of Westminster, was a client of the same high-end prostitution agency as Eliot Spitzer. The Duke allegedly haggled over pricing, requested sex without a condom, and bored prostitute Zana Brazdek with conversation “about the Army, going to Afghanistan, and bin Laden.”
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DailyNews
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| March 1, 2008 | - Prince Harry of Wales, once photographed dressed as a Nazi, was called home after press accounts revealed that he was serving as a British
Army forward air controller in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. “We ask God to enable our beloved brothers in Taliban to seize this priceless booty,” wrote user Sweeping Army on an Internet jihadist message board, “because nothing would break the heart of his grandmother [more] than if she lost him. My dear brothers in Allah, carry on provoking to kidnap this precious infidel.”
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The Guardian
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| February 18, 2008 | - A suicide bomber killed at least 100 spectators at a dogfight near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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BBC
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New York Times
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| January 2, 2008 | - Soldiers were being sent to Afghanistan wearing high-tech helmets that gather data on how bomb blasts impact their brains.
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USAToday.com
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| December 2, 2007 | - Khaled Hosseini, the author of the novel on which the film is based and a resident of California, implored the United States not to abandon Afghanistan. Without U.S. support, he wrote, “Afghanistan is doomed.”
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'Kite Runner' author urges US to hang on in Afghanistan
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| November 28, 2007 | - Farmers in Afghanistan were growing fewer poppies and more pot.
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Afghans turn from growing poppies to pot
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| November 10, 2007 | - At least 75 people, including 59 children, were killed in Afghanistan's deadliest suicide bombing since the fall of the Taliban.
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Guardian unlimited
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| October 11, 2007 | - The Marine Corps was seeking to withdraw its 25,000 troops in Iraq and redeploy them to Afghanistan,.
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New York Times
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| August 19, 2007 | - A car bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killed 13 civilians.
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NYT
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| July 23, 2007 | - The former King of Afghanistan died in Kabul.
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Andhra News
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| July 2, 2007 | - NATO air strikes killed 45 civilians and 62 Taliban fighters in the Helmand province of Afghanistan.
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Guardian
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| June 24, 2007 | - The military was concerned about a marked drop in the number of African-American recruits since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars; “We just want to make sure,” said Marine Commandant General James Conway, “that we continue to look like America.”
- The military was concerned about a marked drop in the number of African-American recruits since the start of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars; “We just want to make sure,” said Marine Commandant General James Conway, “that we continue to look like America.”
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ABC News
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| June 19, 2007 | - Seven children were killed during a coalition-led airstrike in Afghanistan,.
- Seven children were killed during a coalition-led airstrike in Afghanistan,.
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NYT
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| June 10, 2007 | - The Taliban fired rockets at Afghan President Hamid Karzai as he gave a speech to some elders. Karzai paused to quiet the audience after the rockets landed a few hundred yards away, then finished his speech.
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Washington Post
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| May 28, 2007 | - In Britain, anonymous sources close to Queen Elizabeth II reported that the monarch was “exasperated and frustrated” with the legacy of the outgoing prime minister; in particular, she was said to be deeply concerned about Blair's actions in Iraq and Afghanistan and the outlawing of fox hunting.
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Telegraph
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| May 21, 2007 | - Ten people, including a schoolboy, were killed in an Afghanistan
suicide bombing.
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New York Times
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| May 10, 2007 | -
British prime minister Tony Blair announced that he will resign next month after ten years in power. Much speculation ensued about what the 54-year-old Blair would do next, and it was thought that he might establish a foundation to fight poverty in Africa. “[Blair] was the worst thing that ever happened to Africa,” said Bright Matonga, the deputy information minister of Zimbabwe. “We hope that the children of Iraq and Afghanistan he is killing everyday will haunt him for the rest of his life.”
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Daily Mail
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The Australian
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Guardian
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| May 10, 2007 | - In Afghanistan,
NATO leaders were concerned about news reports that they had killed almost 90 civilians in the past two weeks, and residents of the town of Herat claimed that as many as 80 civilians were killed on Tuesday.
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USA Today
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NYT
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| May 2, 2007 | - The U.N. Refugee Agency reported that more than 36,000 Afghans had been deported from Iran since late April.
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BBCnews.com
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| March 17, 2007 | - Between 10,000 and 30,000 people marched in Washington to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Anti-antiwar protesters, organized by a group called Gathering of Eagles, were angry that someone had put a pink tiara on a Navy memorial statue. “That was the real catalyst, right there,” said one Navy veteran. “They showed they were willing to desecrate something that's sacred to the American soul.”
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WP
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WP
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| March 6, 2007 | - The United Nations announced that Afghanistan's yield of heroin poppies rose 25 percent last year.
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BBCnews.com
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| February 28, 2007 | - A suicide bomber attacked Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, killing twenty Afghans, a South Korean, and two Americans but missing his prime target, Vice President Dick Cheney, who has taken to speaking in the first person on the condition of anonymity. “I've seen some reporting,” said the “senior administration official” of his meeting with Pakistani authorities, “that says, ‘Cheney went in to beat up on them, threaten them.' That's not the way I work.”
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New York Times
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San Jose Mercury News
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| February 2, 2007 | -
Taliban forces were on the rise in Afghanistan,.
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BBC
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| December 11, 2006 | - The Taliban established a “mini-state” in Peshawar.
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NYT
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| October 25, 2006 | -
German soldiers serving in Afghanistan snapped commemorative photographs of themselves with the skull of a reputed Taliban militant.
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Deutsche-Welle
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| October 12, 2006 | -
Canadian troops in Afghanistan were finding it difficult to destroy forests of ten-foot-tall marijuana plants where the Taliban hide. “That damn marijuana,” said one soldier.
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Reuters via CNN.com
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| October 9, 2006 | - In Afghanistan, it was reported that NATO and Afghan troops had killed 52 insurgents.
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Irish Examiner
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| October 5, 2006 | - An aid group in Afghanistan was showing children a movie about landmines. “I learned,” said an 11-year-old girl, “that you should stay away from fields that have red stones.” At the end of the film, a puppet named Chuche is given back his arms and legs.
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The Christian Science Monitor
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| September 28, 2006 | - President George W. Bush served Presidents Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan and Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan sea bass with stuffed tomatoes, fondue, and a pomegranate-dressed endive salad at a White House dinner.
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BBC News
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The Australian
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| September 25, 2006 | -
Congress was about to go into recess; bills passed in the final days included a provision to allocate $70 billion to the Pentagon for operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a clause that will allow the president to define enemy combatants at his discretion; the bill also legalized torture and suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
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New York Times
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| September 20, 2006 | - In Afghanistan,
Marine General James L. Jones claimed to have killed as many as a third of the Taliban's “hardcore” fighters, leaving only the “weekend warriors.”
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New York times
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| September 8, 2006 | - In Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said he was “very happy to hear” Pakistan was not sponsoring terrorist attacks on his country.
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New York Times
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| September 5, 2006 | - “Little America,” a model city built in Afghanistan during the Cold War, came under attack by Taliban forces. “Our government is weak,” said one resident. “Anarchy has come.”
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New York Times
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| September 2, 2006 | -
Afghanistan's
opium production was expected to increase by 59 percent this year, making the country the source of 92 percent of the world's supply.
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BBC
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| August 22, 2006 | - Thousands of U.S. Marine reserves were involuntarily recalled to active duty to offset a lack of volunteers for the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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CNN
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| July 16, 2006 | - In Afghanistan 700 coalition troops occupied the town of Sangin in the Helmand province.
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Reuters AlertNet
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Reuters AlertNet
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Reuters AlertNet
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Reuters AlertNet
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Reuters AlertNet
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Reuters AlertNet
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Reuters
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BBC News
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| May 29, 2006 | - Riots broke out in Afghanistan after a U.S. military truck went out of control and killed some civilians.
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The Washington Post
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| May 3, 2006 | - In Afghanistan the power of the Taliban was growing.
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The New York Times
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| May 1, 2006 | - A minivan in Kandahar, Afghanistan, was bombed, killing ten people.
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CNews
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| April 15, 2006 | - Officials in Afghanistan said that 41 Taliban and six police officers had been killed in fighting in the Helmand province; a Taliban spokesman claimed 15 Afghan police and one Taliban were killed.
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Al Jazeera
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| March 21, 2006 | - Eighty-seven percent of the world's opium was made from poppies grown in Afghanistan.
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St. Louis Today
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| March 1, 2006 | -
President Bush, after a brief stop in Afghanistan, visited India, where he was met by 100,000 protesters in New Delhi; he promised to provide India with nuclear fuel and expertise.
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Democracy Now!
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CNN.com
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| February 19, 2006 | - The U.S. Army was using a computer game called “Tactical Iraqi” to teach Marines how to interpret Iraqis' gestures; “Tactical Pashto” and “Tactical Levantine” are in development.
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BBC News
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| February 10, 2006 | - Riots over blasphemous cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad broke out in India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Palestine, Thailand, the autonomous Somali region of Puntland, and Afghanistan—where 11 demonstrators were killed, at least 4 of them by NATO troops. A Taliban commander offered 100 kilograms of gold to anyone who killed those responsible for the cartoons. Other anti-Muhammad-cartoon protests were held in London and Philadelphia. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan called on newspapers to stop re-publishing the drawings, and U.S. President George W. Bush condemned the riots but also criticized publishers. "With freedom," said the President, "comes the responsibility to be thoughtful about others." An Iranian newspaper announced that it would publish cartoons mocking the Holocaust. Flemming Rose, the Danish newspaper editor who published the original caricatures of Muhammad, said that he'd like to re-publish the Holocaust cartoons and was subsequently put on leave by his boss. Danes were increasingly concerned that their country would be singled out for terrorist attacks. "We make fun of everything here," said a carpenter in Copenhagen. "One shouldn't take it so seriously."
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Arab News
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Al Jazeera
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BBC News
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Channel 4
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ReviewJournal.com
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CBC News
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Al Jazeera
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ABC News Online
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Bloomberg News
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| February 6, 2006 | - The Bush Administration submitted a $2.77 trillion budget to Congress calling for a 7 percent increase in Pentagon spending and a $36 billion cut to the growth of Medicare spending. The Administration is expected to ask for an additional $120 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The New York Times
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| January 18, 2006 | - In Iraq 30 people were killed at makeshift checkpoints, 22 people died in suicide bombings, 9 people were killed in an ambush, 5 bodies were found in the Qaid River, 4 children were killed by rocket-propelled grenades, and 2 American civilians were killed in a roadside bombing. Suicide bombings killed at least 22 people in Afghanistan and injured 30 people in Tel Aviv.
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Democracy Now!
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The Boston Globe
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CRI Online
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Sign On San Diego.com
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| January 5, 2006 | - A suicide bombing in Afghanistan killed ten people.
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Reuters
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| October 31, 2005 | - Two U.S. soldiers were charged with assaulting two Afghan prisoners in violation of the Geneva Convention.
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The New York Times
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| October 20, 2005 | - A video recording was released that showed U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan shouting insults through a loudspeaker after setting alight the corpses of two Taliban fighters. "Wow, look at the blood coming out of the mouth on that one," said a soldier. "Fucking straight death metal."
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The Guardian
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| October 11, 2005 | - Eighteen police officers were killed in an ambush in southern Afghanistan.
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BBC News
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| October 10, 2005 | - It was claimed that President Bush had told a group of Palestinian ministers in 2003 that he acted on divine orders. “God would tell me,” Bush said, “‘George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.’ And I did, and then God would tell me, ‘George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq . . .’ And I did.” The White House described these claims as “absurd.”
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BBC Press Office
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New Zealand Herald
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| October 3, 2005 | - Thirty-one suspected Taliban members were killed in fighting in Afghanistan.
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BBC News
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| September 28, 2005 | - The U.S. Army was looking into claims that its soldiers had traded digital pictures of burned and dismembered Iraqi and Afghani bodies in exchange for online access to amateur porn.
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BBC News
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| September 25, 2005 | - A Chinook helicopter crashed in Afghanistan, killing the entire crew.
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BBC News
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| September 19, 2005 | -
Afghanistan held its first parliamentary elections in over three decades; about 6 million people went to the polls to elect 249 people to the Wolesi Jirga.
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Muslim American Society
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| August 21, 2005 | - In Afghanistan four more U.S. soldiers were killed, bringing the year's total to 65.
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The New York Times
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| July 19, 2005 | - A British court, acting under the legal principle of “universal jurisdiction,” convicted a man named Faryadi Zardad on torture charges for events that took place while Zardad lived in Afghanistan, where he would often unleash a “human dog”--a crazed man he kept in a hole--on captives he was holding for ransom. In London, where he has lived since 1998, Zardad ran a pizza parlor.
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GlobeAndMail.com
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| July 11, 2005 | -
Terrorists set off bombs on three trains and a bus in London, killing fifty-two people, despite the fact that in 2003 Dick Cheney said that “our military is confronting the terrorists, along with our allies, in Iraq and Afghanistan so that innocent civilians will not have to confront terrorist violence in Washington or London or anywhere else in the world.”
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The Scotsman
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The White House
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| July 10, 2005 | - In Afghanistan, the Taliban beheaded ten Afghan soldiers and killed a Navy SEAL.
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The Guardian
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| June 29, 2005 | - Sixteen people died when a U.S. Chinook helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan.
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BBC News
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| June 25, 2005 | - Seventy-six insurgents were killed in Afghanistan, although the United States said that number might only be fifty-six, and that they were having trouble keeping a tally of the dead.
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CNN.com
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| June 25, 2005 | - The United States admitted to the United Nations that U.S. prisoners have been tortured in Iraq and Afghanistan, and at Guantánamo Bay.
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The Independent
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| June 6, 2005 | - A bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killed twenty people.
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The New Zealand Herald
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| May 13, 2005 | - The United States was investigating claims that someone flushed a copy of the Koran down a Guantánamo Bay toilet. In Afghanistan, news of the flushing led to riots, where hundreds chanted “death to America” and at least fifteen people died.
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BBC News
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| May 4, 2005 | - It was revealed that soon after September 11, 2001, the CIA sent a team of agents to Afghanistan with orders to “capture Bin Laden, kill him, and bring his head back in a box.”
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BBC News
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| April 25, 2005 | - It was revealed that Condoleezza Rice ordered a German citizen released from an American-supervised prison in Afghanistan after it was determined that the man had been wrongly detained and tortured.
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SMH.com.au
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| April 25, 2005 | - A United Nations investigator in Afghanistan who criticized the abuse of prisoners by United States Army personnel was forced out of his role under pressure from the United States.
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The Independent
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| April 23, 2005 | - A woman in Afghanistan was stoned to death for adultery.
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BBC News
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| April 15, 2005 | - After returning to Afghanistan from the United States, where he underwent heart surgery, an Afghan toddler died.
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BBC News
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| April 7, 2005 | - Eighteen people died when a U.S. helicopter crashed in Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed they shot down the helicopter; the United States blamed bad weather.
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BBC News
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Chicago Tribune
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| April 4, 2005 | - Taliban militants killed nine policemen in southern Afghanistan.
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Arab News
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| March 31, 2005 | - Laura Bush said that she and President George W. Bush both have living wills, then spent six hours in Afghanistan.
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Sydney Morning Herald
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CNN.com
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| March 31, 2005 | - The United States announced that it will establish nine new military bases in Afghanistan, bringing the total to twelve; Afghanistan announced that it will once again postpone parliamentary elections.
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Aljazeera.com
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| March 20, 2005 | - Floods in Afghanistan killed more than two hundred people.
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