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Gates: More Casualties in Afghanistan to be Expected, Allied Strategy Will Work

Voice of America : USA [US] (< 1 hour)
US Defense Secretary acknowledges that progress will not come without cost

Body of latest fallen soldier returns to Canada

canada.com : Canada [CA] (< 1 hour)
The body of a Canadian soldier who died Monday in a German military hospital after being wounded during an Afghanistan foot patrol arrived back on Canadian soil Thursday afternoon.

Derrick Crowe: $547 Million Can't Paper Over Failure of Afghanistan War

The Huffington Post : Blog [US] (< 1 hour)
No matter how much the Pentagon spins their message into the mainstream media, the facts on the ground show the U.S. lacks one of counterinsurgency's own premises for success: a legitimate host nation government.

Robert Naiman | Iraq/Afghanistan: A Promise Kept, a Promise Deferred

t r u t h o u t [US] (< 1 hour)
President Obama wants credit for keeping his promise to end the war in Iraq. Some credit is due: the president reaffirmed his commitment to withdraw all US troops from Iraq by the end of 2011, as required by the agreement between the US and Iraq. But ...

Billion Dollar Audit Missed by Pentagon Watchdog

t r u t h o u t [US] (< 1 hour)
Washington - Military auditors failed to complete an audit of the business systems of an Ohio- based company - Mission Essential Personnel - even though it had billed for one billion dollars worth of work largely in Afghanistan over the last four ...

Poverty affects white pupils the hardest

ITN : Britain [UK] (< 1 hour)
Poverty has a much bigger impact on the performance of white British pupils than on any other ethnic group, according to studies.Related Stories'Dragon' calls for more aid for PakistanBritish soldier shot dead in AfghanistanWoman escapes jail for ...

Karzai urges Afghans not to panic as bank withdrawals accelerate

Washington Post : World [US] (< 1 hour)
As depositors thronged branches of Afghanistan's biggest bank, Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a major shareholder in the beleaguered Kabul Bank, called Thursday for intervention by the United States to head off a financial ...

Karzai calls aide's arrest reminiscent of Soviet times

Washington Post : World [US] (< 1 hour)
KABUL - Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke out angrily Thursday against the arrest of one of his closest aides this summer on corruption charges, saying that the detention iwas conducted in a manner "exactly reminiscent of the Soviet presence in ...

Depositors Panic Over Bank Crisis in Afghanistan

IHT: Frontpage [US] (< 1 hour)
Afghanistan’s top bank official tried to calm fears of a meltdown at Kabul Bank, while scores of Afghans were unable to withdraw money from the bank.

Karzai Kin Asks U.S. to Bolster His Bank

Wall Street Journal : World [US] (< 1 hour)
A top shareholder in Kabul Bank called on the U.S. to shore up the lender after depositors withdrew about a third of its cash reserves in two days, while the country sought to avert a destabilizing crisis.
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