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Google News: U.S. Army Lt. Col. calls Afghanistan an 'absence of success'
[DigitalJournal.com] - Davis notes his time in the mountains of Kunar province, located near the Pakistan border, Afghan police in that area “rarely leave the cover of checkpoints,” allowing the Taliban to “literally run free.” Summing up the situation in Afghanistan
The Winter War
www.aljazeera.com
[Aljazeera.com] - In the frozen peaks of Afghanistan's Kunar province, a ferocious clash for supremacy rages amid the mountaintops. Barack Obama, the US president, has pledged to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan by 2014, with other NATO nations set to pull out
US officer breaks ranks on Afghanistan
www.abc.net.au
[ABC Online] - Lieutenant Colonel Davis recounted a conversation with an Afghan police officer in eastern Afghanistan in Kunar province less than three hours after an insurgent attack. Through an interpreter, he asked the police captain how his forces usually
A different kind of hero mission: helping grieving military families
www.stripes.com
[Stars and Stripes] - Army Staff Sgt. Kristofferson Bernardo Lorenzo, 33, had died when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan's Kunar province. “Why won't my daddy wake up?” he asked. Wordlessly, Herzog reached into her purse and pulled out a tiny
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