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More than 3,000 tribesmen rallied in eastern Afghanistan Thursday against a raid by American troops that killed five innocent people including a teenage girl.

http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=227412&n=36


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Khost province's governor has said the four killed in the US-led raid on Tuesday were civilians, and that at least four others were injured, some seriously, when troops attacked their house.

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The conflict in Afghanistan has entered a dangerous phase, and the next three to six months could prove crucial in determining whether the United States and its NATO partners can suppress a revitalized enemy - or will be dragged into another drawn-out and costly fight with an Islamic insurgency, according to senior military and security officials and diplomats.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120906Z.shtml

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Five years after the fall of the Taliban, western intervention has produced a mafia-style state. Reporter Kate Clark and director Tom Porter discover a fractured country and an economy dominated by the drugs trade.

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The editors of the New York Times write: "Afghanistan was supposed to be the good war - and the war America was winning. But because of the Bush administration's inattention and mismanagement, even the good war is going wrong."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/120506B.shtml

Mr. Karzai has done nothing tangible in the past 4 years to rebuild the country. Millions of $ has been given to Afghanistan by donor countries but much of it is being grabbed by warlords, NGOs and UN workers.

http://rawa.org/rebuild3.htm


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A U.S. troop convoy fired on policemen in waning daylight in eastern Afghanistan, killing one officer and wounding another, officials said Saturday.

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NATO's fragile unity over Afghanistan has begun to crack ahead of an important summit - with one public call to discuss an exit strategy from the Allied forces' bloody confrontation with the Taliban.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/112706J.shtml

Al Qaeda's influence and numbers are rapidly growing in Afghanistan, with fighters operating from new havens and mimicking techniques learned on the Iraqi battlefield for use against U.S. and allied troops, U.S. intelligence officials said.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/16/content_5340271.htm


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