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Positive News from Afghanistan — 18

PILLAR I: POLITICAL AFFAIRS NATO- CJTF-101 - US/Coalition Forces Gates: US reviewing its Afghanistan war strategy Source: AP 18 September 2008, LONDON — The Bush administration is considering changing its war strategy in Afghanistan in light of rising levels of violence and an increasingly complex insurgent threat, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on [...]

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The Third US Battle Ground: PAKISTAN

The US and its allies succeeded in toppling Taliban regime in November 2001 and replacing it with a puppet regime, but the Taliban were neither militarily defeated nor eliminated from the system. But for effective encirclement of Afghanistan from all directions and massive air support provided by USA, the Northern Alliance could not have made [...]

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Last days of Ramadhan 2008 in Germany

The last days of Ramadhan 2008 have started and I see the signs of it on people’s faces: fatigue, exhaustion, weariness. Germany is located on the upper part of the globe which means: fasting from 5.30am to around 7.30pm, which is around 14 hours. As Muslims in Germany don’t get off from their jobs during [...]

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RoadTurns: Reverse and Forward

I am reminded by a story out of China that it is possible to choose a wrong road as well as a right one. According to an article from the Associated Press, “More than 6,200 infants have become sick and four babies have died in China after being fed baby formula laced with melamine, a [...]

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Mass Murder in Afghanistan

The Value of One, the Value of None An Anatomy of Collateral Damage in the Bush Era In a little noted passage in her bestselling book, The Dark Side, Jane Mayer offers us a vision, just post-9/11, of the value of one. In October 2001, shaken by a nerve-gas false alarm [...]

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