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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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http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=opium

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