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Smashed U.S. cars get second chance in Afghanistan
HERAT, Afghanistan — They sit in the sun harboring their lost histories, their forgotten dreams, their traces of funerals, graduations and stolen kisses. On dusty windshields, insurance stickers from Travelers and State Farm bear witness to wrecks...
Tags: Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz al Saud, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, Vehicles, Services and Shopping, Japan
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Afghanistan files formal protest after Pakistan border clash
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan government summoned Pakistan’s charge d’affaires in Kabul to the Foreign Ministry on Monday to file a “strong protest” after another clash along the countries' troubled border. The skirmish,...
Tags: Hamid Karzai, Kabul (Afghanistan), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pakistan, Armed Forces
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Donnelly talks Syrian, Afghan wars
South Bend TribuneReports that rebel fighters in Syria may have used chemical weapons in their fight against the regime there are damaging if true, U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly said today. But he cautioned against jumping to conclusions until all of the facts are in. "If...Tags: Federal Aviation Administration, E-Commerce Industry, Turkey, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Body fragments found at U.S. plane crash site in Kyrgyzstan
MOSCOW -- Rescue teams found remains of two crew members Saturday morning at the site of a U.S. military plane crash in Kyrgyzstan, an official said. “Fragments of two bodies have already been found as we are continuing the search,”...Tags: Kyrgyzstan, Transportation Accidents, U.S. Military, U.S. Air Force, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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McManus: Obama's Gitmo woes
President Obama sounded genuinely outraged last week when he talked about the Kafkaesque situation at the Guantanamo prison camp, where the United States has been holding 166 men without trial for terms that are, at this point, officially endless. "It's...Tags: U.S. Department of State, George W. Bush, Career and Workplace, Politics, U.S. Congress
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Five American soldiers killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Five American soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan on Saturday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb, officials said. The powerful explosion took place about 2 p.m. when an American armored vehicle hit the device in the...
Tags: Politics, Armed Forces, John Kerry, Central Intelligence Agency, Taliban
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Body of third American found at site of Kyrgyzstan crash
MOSCOW -- Recovery teams have found the body of the third American crew member at the site of a plane crash in Kyrgyzstan, the television network Russia-24 reported Saturday. The remains of the plane's two other crew members were found Saturday morning....
Tags: Google Inc., Kyrgyzstan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Television Networks, U.S. Air Force
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The Vietnam syndrome
Thirty-eight years ago last week, I was among the last CIA officers to be choppered off the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon as the North Vietnamese took the country. Just two years before that chaotic rush for the exits, the Nixon administration had withdrawn...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Iraq, U.S. Military, Central Intelligence Agency, Al-Qaeda
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Witnesses in Kyrgyzstan say U.S. military plane broke apart midair
Witnesses say a U.S. tanker airplane that crashed Friday in northern Kyrgyzstan caught fire and broke apart in the air, according to local officials. Emergency response crews were dispatched to the scene, but the fate of the crew was not immediately...
Tags: Kabul (Afghanistan), Kyrgyzstan, Transportation Accidents, U.S. Military, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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Fouad Ajami: Afghanistan shows Americans how not to fight wars
In the unforgiving Afghan landscape, we have learned that you can't buy a warlord. You can only rent one. We owe this education to our man in Kabul, President Hamid Karzai. For more than a decade, it has been recently confirmed, U.S. dollars packed into...Tags: George W. Bush, Elections, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Kabul (Afghanistan), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars
In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...Tags: Weaponry, Fidel Castro, National Security, Politics, U.S. Department of Defense
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Bill O'Reilly: Our many wounded warriors deserve nation's help
Living in the shadows of the ongoing war on terror are 1,715 American military people who lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. A few of those brave folks lost all four limbs when bombs blew apart their bodies. In addition, there are now at least 20 new...Tags: Washington, DC, Al Capone, Hamid Karzai, U.S. Department of Defense, Barack Obama
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