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10 years on and life grim for Afghans (AP)
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)
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)
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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Copter shot down, killing 30 US troops, 8 Afghans (AP)
AP – Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite Navy SEALs unit that killed Osama bin Laden, as well as seven Afghan commandos, U.S. officials said Saturday. It was the deadliest single loss for American forces in the decade-old war.
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Copter shot down, killing 30 US troops, 7 Afghans (AP)
AP – Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite unit as the Navy SEALs who killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, as well as seven Afghan commandos, U.S. officials said Saturday. It what was the deadliest single loss for American forces in the decade-old war against the Taliban.
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31 Americans, 7 Afghans killed in helicopter crash (AP)
AP – A military helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops and seven Afghan commandos, the country’s president said Saturday. An American official said it was apparently shot down, in the deadliest single incident for American forces in the decade-long war.
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Kabul police: 10 Afghans killed in hotel attack (AP)
AP – The death toll in the attack on an international hotel in Kabul has risen to 10.
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