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news.bbc.co.uk - 3/17/2009

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Afghan attack kills US soldiers

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Pakistani fire fighters extinguish a fire at the NATO supply trucks terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar

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news.bbc.co.uk - 3/22/2009

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Envoy damns US Afghan drug effort

— news.bbc.co.uk — Poppy field in Farah province of southwest Afghanistan - 19/3/3009... (more) BBC NEWS | South Asia | Envoy damns US Afghan drug effort

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news.bbc.co.uk - 3/15/2009

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan ex-PM ignores 'arrest'

— news.bbc.co.uk — Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif leaves his home to join an anti-government protest in Lahore on... 15 March 2009 (more) BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan ex-PM ignores 'arrest'

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news.bbc.co.uk - 3/13/2009

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Drone 'kills 24 Pakistan Taleban'

— news.bbc.co.uk — Missiles fired by an unmanned US drone have killed at least 24 people in Pakistan's Kurram tribal... region near the Afghan border, officials have said. Local officials said the dead were local Taleban and that the toll may rise. Thirty others were ... (more) BBC NEWS | South Asia | Drone 'kills 24 Pakistan Taleban'

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Tomgram: Pratap Chatterjee, Unknown Afghanistan
TomDispatch — ... The new policy elements, evidently involving modest invitations to (and threats toward) Iran, a belief that up to 70% of Taliban fighters might be won over via the right combination of money and "reconciliation," and a "scaling back" of hopes for Afghan democracy, hardly seem to add up to a brilliant thought exercise in the face of a disaster of a war now into its eighth year. In the meantime, of course, Americans, Afghans, and Pakistanis continue to die. ...

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Antiwar.com Original — ... into the war. The new policy elements, evidently involving modest invitations to (and threats toward) Iran, a belief that up to 70 percent of Taliban fighters might be won over via the right combination of money and "reconciliation," and a "scaling back" of hopes for Afghan democracy, hardly seem to add up to a brilliant thought exercise in the face of a disaster of a war now into its eighth year. In the meantime, of course, Americans , Afghans, and Pakistanis continue to die. Ironically, the real X-factor in how the Afghan War will be pursued in the years to come ...