Afghanistan: 9 Killed by Bombs By:
Abdul Wahab Views: 2130 Roadside bombs killed eight Afghan soldiers and an American service member in separate episodes in Afghanistan, officials said Friday. NATO confirmed that the American died Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, but provided no other details.
In Afghanistan, a governor who answers to no one By:
Admin HelloAfghanistan Views: 1439
The U.S. plan to invest more power in local and regional officials would favor warlords such as Gov. Atta Mohammad Noor. In his northern province, he commands great respect -- and fear.
Reporting from Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan — The supplicants had come from all over the north of Afghanistan. Bowing as they made their way to the front of the ornate reception room, they bent one by one to kiss the hand of power.
It wasn't poor tradecraft in Afghanistan By:
Admin HelloAfghanistan Views: 1354 The horrible news Dec. 30 that a suicide bomber had taken seven American lives in Afghanistan may have been for some a stark reminder that we are at war. But the men and women of the CIA, whose colleagues these seven were, needed no reminder.