http://afghanistan.web2announcer.com/ Web 2.0 announcer top stories for Afghanistan en Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:12:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2038898 unknown@Netscape.com Deep in a newly released 300-page report on the benefits system for the nation's veterans lies a first look at the dimensions of the disabilities the Iraq- and Afghanistan-war injured are suffering. Through March, more than 176,000 U.S. veterans of those ongoing conflicts had filed claims for disability compensation. Mon, 11 Jun 2007 06:12:15 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2038898VairaqAfghanistandisabilityclaimsmilitarymedicalCareNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2035237 unknown@Netscape.com KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - An Afghan journalist was shot dead by unknown gunmen Tuesday night in her home north of Kabul as she slept beside her 10-month- old baby, Afghan officials said Wednesday. Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:43:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2035237AfghanistanwomenjournalismNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2023499 unknown@Netscape.com A powerful and sophisticated type of roadside bomb prevalent in Iraq but not seen before in Afghanistan was discovered near a university in Kabul last week, prompting a rare countrywide warning to NATO and Afghan troops. Sat, 02 Jun 2007 21:58:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2023499iraqstylebombfoundAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2023653 unknown@Netscape.com Congressional investigators have issued a new report that says the Pentagon has paid almost $31 million to Iraqis or Afghans who have suffered as a result of U.S. combat operations. Sat, 02 Jun 2007 19:58:57 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2023653warPaymentsiraqAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2018425 unknown@Netscape.com A NATO helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force said. The big, twin-rotored Chinook military helicopter went down in southern Afghanistan, a NATO official in Brussels said, but he had no word on casualties. Wed, 30 May 2007 23:52:59 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2018425AfghanistanChinookHelicoptercrashNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2013499 unknown@Netscape.com A tribute to U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mon, 28 May 2007 22:58:10 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2013499soldierswariraqAfghanistanhonorNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2010670 unknown@Netscape.com Among the American troops who served with the snipers, the viewpoint is unanimous. "These are the type of people that I would want to put up on a pedestal and say: 'This is the very best that we have to offer,' " Justin Overbaugh says. "I am not big on apologies, but if they are owed an apology, I hope that they get one. I am quite c Sun, 27 May 2007 00:04:23 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2010670snipersCanadainmilitaryAfghanistanAmericanspresentcanadianswithmedalsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/2009893 unknown@Netscape.com Family, friends, and sometimes even troops themselves send I-Report salutes nearly every day to U.S. military serving their country away from home. Listen in as family and friends share stories of the troops they love, and click through the archive below... Sat, 26 May 2007 02:46:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/2009893TroopsiraqAfghanistanmemorialdaywarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1904982 unknown@Netscape.com President George W. Bush, ending a lengthy search, chose Army Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute on Tuesday to serve as the top White House coordinator for Iraq and Afghanistan war policy. Wed, 16 May 2007 00:30:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1904982DouglasLutewarCzarPoliticsiraqAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1874227 unknown@Netscape.com Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban's most prominent military commander, was killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan with Afghan and NATO troops, officials said Sunday. Dadullah was killed Saturday in the southern province of Helmand, said Said Ansari, the spokesman for Afghanistan's intelligence service. Sun, 13 May 2007 07:55:51 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1874227MullahDadullahTalibanleaderNATOTroopsAfghanistanfightingNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1862074 unknown@Netscape.com KABUL, May 12 (Reuters) - Western and Afghan troops have driven the Taliban from a southern area after a week-long battle in which more than 70 militants were killed, an Afghan security official said on Saturday. Sat, 12 May 2007 20:21:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1862074TalibanKabulafghanTroopsAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1803992 unknown@Netscape.com A U.S. Army commander Tuesday said the military has apologized to Afghans whose relatives were killed in March when U.S. troops fired on them after a suicide attack. Tue, 08 May 2007 22:39:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1803992AfghanistanafghancivilianskillingNATOpentagonNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1772988 unknown@Netscape.com KABUL, May 7 (Reuters) - The 10-year-old Afghan girl has big eyes, a shy smile and a dark lesion speckled with blood on her right cheek. The girl has leishmaniasis, a disease caused by a parasite transmitted by a tiny sandfly that can lead to severe scarring, often on the face. Mon, 07 May 2007 03:29:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1772988AfghanistanLeishmaniasisKabulNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1753233 unknown@Netscape.com German Defense Minister Jung has turned down a request from Kabul to send soldiers to the turbulent south of the country amid concerns the deployment would amount to a direct participation in combat operations. Sat, 05 May 2007 19:06:08 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1753233GermanarmyAfghanistanviolenceNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1704031 unknown@Netscape.com KABUL (Reuters) - President Hamid Karzai warned on Wednesday that Afghan patience was wearing thin over the killing of civilians by Western forces hunting Taliban guerrillas, saying further deaths would lead to bad consequences. Wed, 02 May 2007 16:42:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1704031KarzaiAfghanistanTalibanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1650838 unknown@Netscape.com When Deborah Rodriguez, a Michigan mother of two, visited Afghanistan in 2001 as a part of a disaster-relief tour arranged by a Christian humanitarian group, she wondered what she had to offer the citizens of a country who had weathered five long years of Taliban control. Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:55:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1650838AfghanistanTalibandisasterhaircutNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1645197 unknown@Netscape.com Afghan officials have reprimanded British diplomats over a campaign by UK troops in Helmand telling farmers that growing poppies was understandable and acceptable. Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:16:39 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1645197AfghanistanOpiumNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1572711 unknown@Netscape.com Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, is not beyond making gaffes. When the clever editors of the Chicago Tribune recently prompted him to discuss his former commander-in-chief Bill Clinton's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on homosexuality among US servicemen, Pace responded that homosexuality was as "i Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:05:50 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1572711iranwarAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1545871 unknown@Netscape.com The number of returning Iraq & Afghanistan combat veterans visiting Dept of Veterans Affairs walk-in clinics has more than doubled since 2004, while the clinics' staff has increased by less than 10%. A VA survey of clinic team leaders shows that 114 of the 209 Vet Centers need at least one extra psychologist or therapist to help with the influx Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:04:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1545871VamilitaryhealthCareStaffiraqAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1500890 unknown@Netscape.com Despite a successful presidential election in 2004 and parliamentary elections in 2005, the situation in Afghanistan has been worsening since then. The year 2006 was a bloody one in terms of casualties for both coalition and Afghan forces as well as for the civilian population. Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:00:40 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1500890AfghanistanwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1460426 unknown@Netscape.com American marines reacted to a bomb ambush with excessive force in eastern Afghanistan, hitting groups of bystanders and with machine-gun fire in a series of attacks that covered 10 miles of highway and left 12 civilians dead, including an infant and three elderly men, according to a report published by an Afghan human rights commission on Saturday. Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:36:17 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1460426AfghanistanMarinesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1445283 unknown@Netscape.com KABUL, Afghanistan - A U.S. Marine unit broke international humanitarian law by using excessive force during a shooting spree last month that left 12 people dead, an Afghan human rights group said in a report Saturday. Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:06:44 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1445283AfghanistanMarineshumanrightsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1395477 unknown@Netscape.com Australia plans to nearly double its forces in Afghanistan, Prime Minister John Howard said Tuesday, describing the dispatch of 450 soldiers as an attempt to check the swelling Taliban insurgency. Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:41:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1395477AustraliaTroopsAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1380827 unknown@Netscape.com Australia is to deploy a 300-member special forces task group back to Afghanistan to help counter the expected Taliban summer offensive, Prime Minister John Howard has announced. Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:59:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1380827AfghanistanTalibanAustraliaTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1367118 unknown@Netscape.com Our success or failure in Helmand depends not on warlords, or the governor of the province, or even special forces soldiers, but on the ordinary Afghans. And while we are spectacularly winning the war at the tactical level against the Taliban, we are rapidly losing the fight for those ordinary hearts and minds. Sun, 08 Apr 2007 19:43:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1367118AfghanistanwarNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1351601 unknown@Netscape.com In his Easter message on Christianity's most joyous day, Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday decried suffering in the world, lamenting the "continual slaughter" in Iraq and expressing worry over unrest and instability in Afghanistan. Sun, 08 Apr 2007 14:25:49 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1351601ReligionpopeEasteriraqAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1339167 unknown@Netscape.com The 3,400 soldiers of the Indiana National Guard's 76th Brigade Combat Team were alerted Friday that they will be deployed to the Mideast sometime soon. Some of the brigade's soldiers have already served in Iraq and Afghanistan, including one unit that recently returned from training Iraqi security forces. Sat, 07 Apr 2007 06:57:45 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1339167iraqAfghanistannationalguarddeploymentsurgeNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1327336 unknown@Netscape.com The Dutch infantrymen stood on a ridge near the Baluchi Valley, an area in south-central Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban and tribes opposed to the central government Fri, 06 Apr 2007 18:56:46 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1327336DutchAfghanistanwartacticsTalibanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1289219 unknown@Netscape.com The leader of Germany's Social Democrats has proposed staging a new peace conference on Afghanistan that would include representatives of the Taliban. It's a controversial idea that has met a mixed reception so far. Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:41:37 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1289219GermanyTalibansocialdemocratsAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1266053 unknown@Netscape.com Flooding and an avalanche have killed at least 51 people and destroyed hundreds of homes over the last 10 days, following warm weather and heavy spring rains across much of Afghanistan. Mon, 02 Apr 2007 07:40:25 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1266053Floodsavalanchekill51AfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1244396 unknown@Netscape.com A battered tent, pitched on a Navy parking lot, is reflective of a problem that almost certainly will worsen as more troops come home from Iraq and Afghanistan and leave active duty: There aren't enough beds for those who end up homeless. According to the Dept of Veterans Affairs, there are about 195,000 homeless veterans on any given night. Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:27:33 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1244396iraqAfghanistanveteranshomelessNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1235727 unknown@Netscape.com A new analysis of funding for U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan concludes the Army could continue to wage war through July without additional funding from Congress. Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:23:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1235727iraqwarfundingAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1235423 unknown@Netscape.com Two Afghanistan experts painted a sobering picture of the conditions there yesterday, arguing support among Afghans for NATO forces is plummeting, the U.S.-driven policy of poppy eradication is wrongheaded, and the war might not be winnable in its present form. Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:37:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1235423AfghanistanwarlostNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1234487 unknown@Netscape.com The memo reinforces suspicions that the Pentagon was more concerned with sparing officials from embarrassment than with leveling with Tillman's family. Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:12:58 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1234487PattillmanbushpentagonAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1222784 unknown@Netscape.com The Senate and the House have both passed bills for ending the Iraq War, or at least liquidating the American involvement in it. The resolutions, approved by the barest majorities, were underpinned by one unmistakable theme: wrong war, wrong place, distracting us from the real war that is elsewhere. Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:54:06 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1222784KrauthammeriraqAfghanistanpelosiwaronterrorNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1199525 unknown@Netscape.com Despite efforts to eradicate Afghanistan's opium production, the problem keeps getting worse. And the Taliban insurgency is the primary beneficiary. Now, some European governments are weighing a legalization of the drug trade. Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:45:56 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1199525AfghanistanOpiumNATOlegalizationNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1130550 unknown@Netscape.com It's been nearly 4 years since Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan by friendly fire. We have learned that investigations by the Pentagon's inspector general will blame 9 officers - including 4 generals - for failing to follow regulations and using poor judgment in a series of missteps that kept the truth of how he died from his family for more th Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:45:57 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1130550PattillmanfriendlyfireGeneralsAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1130853 unknown@Netscape.com Marines accused of shooting and killing civilians after a suicide bombing in Afghanistan are under U.S. investigation, and their entire unit has been ordered to leave the country early, officials said Friday. Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:02:28 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1130853AfghanistanafghanciviliansMarineskillingNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1115926 unknown@Netscape.com From the article: "Clashes between Pakistani tribesmen and foreign militants near the Afghan border this week have left up to 160 people dead, including about 130 Uzbek and Chechen fighters, the provincial governor said Friday. The government says the bloodletting shows the success of its decision to use local tribesmen to root out foreign militants linked to al-Qaida. However, experts say it also exposes authorities' lack of control of a region also used by the Taliban to support attacks in Afghanistan." Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:28:42 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1115926pakistanmilitantTalibanAlQaedaAfghanistanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1094451 unknown@Netscape.com Bribery and corruption are pervasive in Afghanistan's current government, according to a survey released on Monday that said most Afghans believe their leaders are more corrupt than the Soviet-backed government in the 1980s or the Taliban-run government in the 1990s. Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:30:21 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1094451AfghanistanTalibancorruptionNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1058342 unknown@Netscape.com After four years of war, Americans are increasingly pessimistic about the prospects for success in Iraq and a majority wants U.S. troops to begin coming home, according to an analysis of data from CBS News and CBS News/New York Times polls. Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:11:16 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1058342iraqwarcivilpollAfghanistanbushNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1054377 unknown@Netscape.com Taliban guerrillas chopped noses and ears of at least five truck drivers in eastern Afghanistan as punishment for transporting supplies to U.S.-led troops, officials and residents said on Sunday. Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:20:48 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1054377TalibanguerrillasAfghanistanNosesandearsChoppedoffNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1005225 unknown@Netscape.com Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mastermind of the September 11 attacks on the United States, claimed responsibility for those and other major al Qaeda attacks, according to the transcript of a hearing at Guantanamo Bay released on Wednesday. "I was responsible for the 9/11 Operation, from A to Z" Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:26:11 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1005225AlQaedaterrorismAfghanistan911truthNews http://web2announcer.com/go/1001841 unknown@Netscape.com More than a quarter of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have filed injury claims with the government, according to an internal Department of Veterans Affairs report. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:44:35 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/1001841iraqAfghanistanmilitarycasualtiesNews http://web2announcer.com/go/990081 unknown@Netscape.com A soldier honoured for his military valour in Afghanistan is wondering why strangers attacked and beat him in his hometown bar this past weekend. "This wasn't two guys on the ice dropping gloves and going, 'OK, let's go'," Master Cpl. Collin Fitzgerald told CTV Ottawa on Tuesday. Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:20:34 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/990081AfghanistanwaronterroroppositionNews http://web2announcer.com/go/971767 unknown@Netscape.com Almost one-third of returning veterans who received health care at Veterans Affairs facilities between 2001 & 2005 were given a mental health or psychosocial diagnosis, according to a report in the March 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. Many experience substance abuse, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) & other conditions. Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:18:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/971767AfghanistanveteranshealthCarementalillnessiraqNews http://web2announcer.com/go/961544 unknown@Netscape.com A roadside bomb targeting a police convoy killed nine officers, including a local commander, and left one critically wounded. Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:01:47 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/961544Roadsidebombkills9AfghanistanpoliceNews http://web2announcer.com/go/972076 unknown@Netscape.com President Bush confirmed Sunday that he would be sending thousands of new support troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, in addition to the previously announced "surge" of 21,500 combat troops. Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:38:02 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/972076warAfghanistanTroopsNews http://web2announcer.com/go/952207 unknown@Netscape.com Propaganda has always played an important part in war, but in Afghanistan the battles between Nato forces and the Taleban are being fought not just in the deserts and valleys but in the media. When the war is about hearts and minds, winning public opinion is the be-all and end-all, and there's quite a temptation to interfere in a country with Sun, 11 Mar 2007 20:41:29 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/952207AfghanistanwarmediaNATOForcestalebanNews http://web2announcer.com/go/912049 unknown@Netscape.com Fugitive Afghan rebel leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar told The Associated Press his forces have ended cooperation with the Taliban and suggested that he was open to talks with President Hamid Karzai. Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:05:18 GMT http://web2announcer.com/go/912049AfghanistanwarlordsTalibanNews