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Der SPD-Verteidigungsexperte Rainer Arnold plädiert für eine Aufstockung der internationalen Streitkräfte in Afghanistan. Das Land brauche mehr Soldaten, sagte Arnold nach einer Afghanistanreise am 29. August im Deutschlandfunk. Angesichts der Kämpfe im Süden Afghanistans könne er Forderungen dortiger Generäle nach mehr Bodentruppen verstehen.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=16480

USA Today

08/27/07

The Air Force this fall will deploy a new generation of pilotless airplane with the bombing power of an F-16 to help stop the stubborn Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. The Reaper is an upgraded version of the Predator, which has become one of the military’s most sought-after planes since it first appeared in Afghanistan in 2001...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Only 22 per cent of respondents in Canada think the war against militant groups in Afghanistan has been mostly a success.

http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/17006


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The amount of Afghan land used for growing opium was now larger than the combined total used to grow coca -- the raw ingredient for cocaine -- in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, it said.

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Hajji Agha Muhammad, an Afghan elder, said airstrikes had killed 12 civilians and wounded 12 others in Kobar, a village in the volatile Musa Qala district, on Saturday night. Mr. Muhammad said the dead included six children ages 3 to 6 and two women.

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Munition wird von dem deutschen Unternehmen Dynamit Nobel Defence hergestellt und könnte unter das Verbot von Brandwaffen fallen.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26056/1.html Die

Residents of a province in southern Afghanistan reported on Sunday that some 18 civilians were killed and over 22 wounded in a NATO airstrike.

http://tinyurl.com/yoy46z


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Tim Albone in Kabul

The friendly-fire deaths in Helmand have reopened a schism between American and British troops over how to fight the Taleban in occupied Afghanistan.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2323959.ece


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A bomb apparently dropped by an American fighter jet called in for air support killed three British soldiers in southern Afghanistan, officials said today. Two soldiers were seriously wounded.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2007/Aug/20070824News013.asp


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Auch in Afghanistan steigt die Zahl der zivilen Opfer des Kriegs; Zerstörung der letzten Wälder, die sich ausbreitende Wüste oder die Versalzung des Bodens sind andere Aspekte der seit fast 30 Jahren dauernden Kämpfe.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/26/26020/1.html

The United Nations has warned that more and more Afghan civilians will be forced to flee their homes, if the conflict in Afghanistan continues.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6956155.stm


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