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Attacks by Afghans on US troops often personal (AP)

February 1st, 2012 | Author: admin

FILE - Afghan policemen walk ahead of the U.S. soldiers with the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) during a foot patrol in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, in this Jan. 7, 2012 file photo. In testimony prepared for delivery Wednesday Feb. 1, 2012 to the House Armed Services Committee, defense officials said that in most cases the Afghans acted out of personal motivation and were not controlled or directed by insurgent groups. The second most common circumstances involved insurgents impersonating or infiltrating Afghan security forces. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan, File)AP – Supposedly friendly Afghan security forces have attacked U.S. and coalition troops 45 times since May 2007, U.S. officials say, for the first time laying out details and analysis of attacks that have killed 70 and wounded 110.


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Panetta assures Afghans of full probe into video (AP)

January 12th, 2012 | Author: admin

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expresses her dismay at emerging reports of U.S. Marines allegedly desecrating the bodies of Taliban fighters killed in Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, during a news conference with Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – Pentagon leaders scrambled Thursday to contain damage from an Internet video purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses — an act that appears to violate international laws of warfare and further strains U.S.-Afghan relations.


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Panetta assures Afghans of full probe of Marines (AP)

January 12th, 2012 | Author: admin

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expresses her dismay at emerging reports of U.S. Marines allegedly desecrating the bodies of Taliban fighters killed in Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012, during a news conference with Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci, at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – Pentagon leaders scrambled Thursday to contain damage from an Internet video purporting to show four Marines urinating on Taliban corpses — an act that appears to violate international laws of warfare and put further strains U.S.-Afghan relations.


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2.6 million Afghans at risk of hunger from drought (AP)

December 3rd, 2011 | Author: admin

In this Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, Afghan women clad in burqas sit near their packed bags of humanitarian aid donated by International Organization for Migration (IOM) for drought-hit families in Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The United Nations appealed for $142 million on Oct. 1 to help those hit by the drought in 14 northern provinces where up to 80 percent of non-irrigated fields yielded little to no crops. So far, about $49 million has been pledged by aid groups, the U.S. and European nations. (AP Photo/Mustafa Najafizada)AP – Zara, an Afghan mother of seven, doesn’t know what to tell her children when they ask about dinner.


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10 years on and life grim for Afghans (AP)

October 5th, 2011 | Author: admin

In this Sunday, Sept. 25, 2011 photo, an Afghan National Army soldier relaxes on his bed inside the sleeping quarters of their barracks in Kunduz, northen Afghanistan. As the U.S. and NATO mark 10 years of war in Afghanistan, a grim picture emerges from scores of interviews over six months across the country with ordinary Afghans, government officials, soldiers, and former and current Taliban. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)AP – Asif Khan sits on a dirty, once-white blanket in an abandoned cinema and fights back tears of desperation.


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Afghans give Pakistan evidence in Rabbani killing (AP)

October 1st, 2011 | Author: admin

Spokesman for Afghanistan's National Security Lotfollah Mashal talks to the journalists in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday Oct. 1, 2011. Afghanistan's intelligence service says it has handed Pakistani authorities evidence showing former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani's assassination was planned in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)AP – Afghanistan’s intelligence service said Saturday it has given Pakistan hard evidence that former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani’s assassination was planned in the southern outskirts of the Pakistani city of Quetta where key Taliban leaders are based.


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AP EXCLUSIVE: Afghans scuttle US-Taliban talks (AP)

August 29th, 2011 | Author: admin

FILE - This undated file photo reportedly shows the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar. Infuriated that Washington met secretly at least three times with a personal emissary of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Afghan government intentionally leaked details of the clandestine meetings, scuttling the talks and sending the Taliban intermediary into hiding, The Associated Press has learned. (AP Photo/ File)AP – Infuriated that Washington met secretly at least three times with a personal emissary of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Afghan government intentionally leaked details of the clandestine meetings, scuttling the talks and sending the Taliban intermediary into hiding, The Associated Press has learned.


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