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War in Afghanistan (2001-present)

(Date: 7/28/2010 - 39 days ago) View the latest stories >>

War in Afghanistan (2001-present)

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Drugs, Poor Discipline Afflict Afghan Army This story's sentiment has been rated as being negative. (2 future stories)     
WSJ.com: What's News US - 7/28/2010 9:17 PM - [direct link]
The U.S. strategy for leaving Afghanistan is dependent on building capable Afghan forces that can take over, but U.S. soldiers complain of a trigger-happy attitude, general carelessness and drug use. (2 first ranks, 18%, 2 second ranks, 18%)
Biden says Afghan policy still developing - USATODAY.com News - Top Stories - [direct link]
Mountain Climbing: Afghan Climber Aims for Top of Everest - NYT > Sports - [direct link]
Bomb kills 25 on Afghanistan bus - Los Angeles Times - Top News - [direct link]
NYT > NYTimes.com Home - MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
all 11 news articles »

Envoy Says Corruption Helps Taliban Win Recruits This story's sentiment has been rated as being positive.     
NYT > NYTimes.com Home - 7/28/2010 8:02 PM - [direct link]
Richard C. Holbrooke said that corruption in Afghanistan gave the Taliban its No. 1 recruiting tool but insisted that the United States was trying to cut misuse of its aid. (1 second ranks, 50%)
Biden says Afghan policy still developing - USATODAY.com News - Top Stories - [direct link]
all 2 news articles »

Envoy Says Corruption Helps Taliban Win Recruits This story's sentiment has been rated as being positive.     
NYT > NYTimes.com Home - 7/28/2010 8:02 PM - [direct link]
Richard C. Holbrooke said that corruption in Afghanistan gave the Taliban its No. 1 recruiting tool but insisted that the United States was trying to cut misuse of its aid. (1 second ranks, 50%)
In Taliban hotbed, any ally will do - washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights - [direct link]
all 2 news articles »
 
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Reference to missile-downed helicopter in leaked Afghanistan reports highlights a threat This story's sentiment has been rated as being positive.

     
Los Angeles Times - Top News
- date posted: 7/29/2010 12:00 AM - 38 days ago - date added: 7/28/2010 3:46 PM - 38 days ago - Afternoon - 2 rank
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If the Taliban had many surface-to-air missiles, it could dramatically alter an already struggling allied war effort. Shoulder-launched missiles downed scores of Soviet helicopters in the 1980s. ...

washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights

Assange: Cyber-whistleblower

     
washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights
- date posted: 7/28/2010 12:00 AM - 39 days ago - date added: 7/28/2010 10:32 AM - 39 days ago - Morning - 4 rank
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EXCLUSIVE | Wikileaks founder discusses site's growing strength and answers your questions about leaked Afghan war documents. Wikileaks - History - Wars and Conflicts - Julian Assange - ...
     
Future/spin-off stories

Tonga to send 275 troops to Afghanistan This story's sentiment has been rated as being positive.


 (future word: over the next two years at the)      
Boston.com -- Latest news
- date added: 7/28/2010 7:17 PM - 38 days ago - Evening - 2 rank
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Tonga government has agreed to deploy 275 soldiers to Afghanistan over the next two years at the request of the British government. Afghanistan - Government of the United ...

Pakistani scientist lawyers seek 12-year sentence This story's sentiment has been rated as being negative.


 (future word: prison for 12 years rather than, court papers Wednesday     
Boston.com -- Latest news
- date added: 7/28/2010 6:02 PM - 38 days ago - Evening - 2 rank
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A U.S.-trained scientist from Pakistan who was convicted of trying to murder U.S. agents and military officers in Afghanistan should be sent to prison for 12 years rather than life because she is ...

Documents detail search for captive Idaho soldier This story's sentiment has been rated as being positive.


 (future word: soldier captured last year by the)      
Boston.com -- Latest news
- date added: 7/28/2010 2:17 PM - 38 days ago - Afternoon - 6 rank
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Leaked military documents on the war in Afghanistan appear to provide details of the U.S. Army's search for an Idaho soldier captured last year by the Taliban. Afghanistan - ...

WikiLeaks papers hint about bin Laden


 (future word: in the years since his)      
CNN.com
- date posted: 7/27/2010 5:39 PM - 39 days ago - date added: 7/28/2010 7:17 AM - 39 days ago - Morning - 3 rank
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The recently released cache of U.S. reports from Afghanistan provides fleeting glimpses into the possible whereabouts of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in the years since his escape from American ...


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Miners Likely to Skip Afghan Auction This story's sentiment has been rated as being positive. (3 future stories)     
WSJ.com: What's News US - 7/27/2010 3:17 PM - [direct link]
Afghanistan is preparing to auction off a round of iron ore, copper and natural gas deposits over the next year, but the major international miners aren't likely to go in until stability returns. (2 first ranks, 22%, 3 second ranks, 33%)
Marine general firm on Afghan mission - USATODAY.com News - Top Stories - [direct link]
Pentagon: Leaked Afghan reports are not top-secret - CNN.com - [direct link]
Afghan army struggles with ethnic divisions - MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - [direct link]
NYT > NYTimes.com Home - washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights
all 9 news articles »

Kerry plays down leaked documents  (3 future stories)     
CNN.com - 7/27/2010 10:32 AM - [direct link]
Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. John Kerry said Tuesday the importance of Afghanistan war documents leaked by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.org should not be overstated. (1 first ranks, 12%, 1 second ranks, 12%)
Obama Responds to Afghan Document Leak as Democrats Split on War Spending Bill - NYT > NYTimes.com Home - [direct link]
Easy to leak secret documents? Apparently so - MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - [direct link]
Leak part of plot, ex-general says - washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights - [direct link]
Los Angeles Times - Top News - StarTribune.com rss feed
all 8 news articles »

Military Probe Again Targets Manning This story's sentiment has been rated as being positive. (2 future stories)     
WSJ.com: What's News US - 7/27/2010 4:17 PM - [direct link]
Pfc. Bradley Manning, a military intelligence analyst charged with providing classified documents and video to WikiLeaks earlier this year, is the Pentagon's prime focus as it investigates the release ... (1 first ranks, 17%, 1 second ranks, 17%)
Pentagon: Leaked Afghan reports are not top-secret - CNN.com - [direct link]
Pentagon launches leak probe - washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights - [direct link]
Pentagon names sailor thought captured by Taliban - Boston.com -- Latest news - [direct link]
StarTribune.com rss feed
all 6 news articles »

Body of Missing American Sailor Found in Afghanistan  (7 future stories)     
NYT > NYTimes.com Home - 7/27/2010 12:16 PM - [direct link]
The body of a missing sailor, one of two captured by the Taliban in Logar Province on Friday, was found Sunday according to a statement released Tuesday from a NATO spokesman. (2 second ranks, 29%)
U.S. looks for damage after Afghanistan War secrets exposed - MiamiHerald.com: Today's Top Stories - [direct link]
Missing U.S. serviceman confirmed dead in Afghanistan - Los Angeles Times - Top News - [direct link]
NATO recovers remains of missing U.S. sailor - MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - [direct link]
Boston.com -- Latest news
all 7 news articles »

Pentagon: Leaked Afghan reports are not top-secret This story's sentiment has been rated as being negative.     
CNN.com - 7/27/2010 2:46 PM - [direct link]
American officials from the president down tried to downplay the leak of thousands of Afghan war documents. (1 first ranks, 33%, 1 second ranks, 33%)
U.S. must work with Pakistan despite leaked reports' picture of ties to Taliban, experts say - Los Angeles Times - Top News - [direct link]
all 3 news articles »

New Air Force program rebuilding faces of soldiers, veterans This story's sentiment has been rated as being negative.     
StarTribune.com rss feed - 7/27/2010 4:32 AM - [direct link]
Master Sgt. Todd Nelson lost his right eye and ear in a flash when a car bomb in Afghanistan exploded, sending fire up his arm and over his head. (1 first ranks, 50%)
New program rebuilding faces of soldiers, veterans - Boston.com -- Latest news - [direct link]
all 2 news articles »

House passes measure to fund Afghan war This story's sentiment has been rated as being positive.     
washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights - 7/27/2010 4:02 PM - [direct link]
Democratic leaders had to rely on GOP support to pass the almost $59 billion measure to fund additional 30,000 troops, other programs. Democratic - Republican Party - United States - History - ... (1 first ranks, 50%)
Roll Call: House passes a war-funding bill - Boston.com -- Latest news - [direct link]
all 2 news articles »
 
Other stories a day ago:

House Approves Money for Wars, but Rift Deepens


 (future word: the money after a leak)      
NYT > NYTimes.com Home
- date posted: 7/27/2010 6:04 PM - 39 days ago - date added: 7/27/2010 6:17 PM - 39 days ago - Evening - 3 rank
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The House approved a measure to pay for combat operations, but Democrats splintered on the money after a leak of documents showing the Afghanistan war had not been going as well as portrayed.

Early reaction shows no sign of upending war plan

     
Boston.com -- Latest news
- date added: 7/27/2010 6:02 PM - 39 days ago - Evening - 15 rank
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The shock of the disclosure of tens of thousands of secret documents about the war in Afghanistan has inspired a debate on the war, but had few other apparent aftereffects. ...

House to vote on war funding bill This story's sentiment has been rated as being positive.

     
washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights
- date posted: 7/27/2010 12:00 AM - 40 days ago - date added: 7/27/2010 3:32 PM - 39 days ago - Afternoon - 2 rank
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Chamber appears poised to approve spending $37B on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. War in Afghanistan - Iraq - Iraq War - Afghanistan - Warfare and Conflict

U.S.: Pakistan Ties Have Strengthened This story's sentiment has been rated as being positive.


 (future word: past several months Pakistan stance, cover the years 2004 to 2009)      
WSJ.com: What's News US
- date posted: 7/27/2010 1:17 PM - 40 days ago - date added: 7/27/2010 10:32 AM - 40 days ago - Morning - 2 rank
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U.S. officials contend that in the past several months, Pakistan's stance on the war in Afghanistan has become much more nuanced than portrayed in the WikiLeaks reports, which cover the years 2004 to ...

Anger, but no calls for change

     
washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights
- date posted: 7/27/2010 12:00 AM - 40 days ago - date added: 7/27/2010 6:02 AM - 40 days ago - Morning - 1 rank
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Officials and experts dismiss impact of WikiLeaks release of Afghan war documents. National security - History - United States - Wikileaks - Wars and Conflicts

New Fodder for War Critics This story's sentiment has been rated as being negative.

     
Philly.com News
- date posted: 7/27/2010 12:02 AM - 40 days ago - date added: 7/27/2010 12:17 AM - 40 days ago - Night - 5 rank
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WASHINGTON - The leaking of a trove of U.S. documents about the Afghanistan war has put the Obama administration on the defensive and may deepen doubts in Congress about prospects for turning around ...


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This combination photograph shows portraits of Afghan National Army soldiers following a patrol made on Sunday, July 11, 2010, at the United States Army''s Combat Outpost Ware, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, near Kandahar City, southern Afghanistan.
Afghan army struggles with ethnic divisions
 
 
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Common words: Afghan, 25, bomb, bus, Afghanistan, kills, killing, blast, hits, says, Biden, Developing, policy, Taliban, corruption, helps, recruits
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