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| (In the last half-hour) (future word: Florida - September 11 attacks -) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 9/6/2010 8:16 PM - 1 hours ago - date added: 9/6/2010 9:21 PM - 26 minutes ago - Evening - 8 rank - [direct link] U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan warn that a small Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks could endanger the lives of U.S. troops.
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| (future word: Quran on September 11 warning the) CNN.com - date posted: 9/6/2010 4:49 PM - 4 hours ago - date added: 9/6/2010 2:18 PM - 7 hours ago - Afternoon - 3 rank - [direct link] The U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Monday criticized a Florida church's plan to burn copies of the Quran on September 11, warning the demonstration "could cause significant problems" for American ... |
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| (future word: A morning of tears) Los Angeles Times - Top News - date posted: 9/6/2010 11:03 AM - 10 hours ago - date added: 9/6/2010 1:04 PM - 8 hours ago - Afternoon - 2 rank - [direct link] It's 2 a.m. and several hundred Marines are assembling their sea bags, weapons and other gear on the parade deck. Small groups of families are huddled together; many a Marine and his wife are sharing ... |
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| (future word: in Afghanistan this year has reached) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 9/6/2010 3:28 AM - 18 hours ago - date added: 9/6/2010 5:02 AM - 16 hours ago - Morning - 8 rank - [direct link] The number of foreign troops killed in Afghanistan this year has reached at least 500, compared with 521 in all of 2009, according to an independent monitoring site Monday and a tally compiled by ... |
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| (future word: in the late 1970s Efforts, access roadThere may be no, an uncertain future — than) Los Angeles Times - Top News - date posted: 9/6/2010 12:00 AM - 21 hours ago - date added: 9/6/2010 9:47 AM - 12 hours ago - Morning - 1 rank - [direct link] The Kajaki Dam in southern Afghanistan was built in the 1950s with U.S. aid but fell into disrepair in the late 1970s. Efforts to repair it have faltered as the Taliban controls an access road.There ... |
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| (future word: Brownfield was later charged with) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/6/2010 12:49 PM - 8 hours ago - Afternoon - 1 rank - [direct link] John Brownfield Jr. became a corrections officer following deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. Brownfield was later charged with accepting bribes from inmates seeking tobacco at the U.S. Penitentiary ... |
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| (future word: broiling fall evening in this, at TGI Friday on the) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/6/2010 9:47 AM - 12 hours ago - Morning - 1 rank - [direct link] It was a broiling fall evening in this southern Afghan battlezone, and U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Reed wanted to celebrate his birthday in style -- at T.G.I. Friday's on the boardwalk.
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| (future word: training for years The United, billion a year training and, and police after it begins) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/6/2010 7:02 AM - 14 hours ago - Morning - 1 rank - [direct link] The United States expects to spend about $6 billion a year training and supporting Afghan troops and police after it begins pulling out its own combat troops in 2011, The Associated Press has ... |
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| (future word: home Monday after militants in, him from five months in captivity) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/6/2010 6:47 AM - 15 hours ago - Morning - 2 rank - [direct link] A Japanese journalist returned home Monday after militants in Afghanistan released him from five months in captivity.
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| 9/5/2010 - (Yesterday) (11 total stories) |
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| (future word: forces -- may be headed, in the coming weeks under a) CNN.com - date posted: 9/5/2010 8:17 PM - 1 day ago - date added: 9/5/2010 5:47 PM - 1 day ago - Evening - 2 rank - [direct link] As many as 2,000 additional troops -- including a number of U.S. forces -- may be headed to Afghanistan in the coming weeks under a plan being proposed by Gen. David Petraeus, CNN has learned. |
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| (future word: Afghan Leaders May Hurt Push) NYT > NYTimes.com Home - date posted: 9/5/2010 8:30 AM - 1 day ago - date added: 9/5/2010 8:47 AM - 1 day ago - Morning - 5 rank - [direct link] A belief by Westerners that Afghans expect misrule and malfeasance could make Afghans’ contempt for their leaders as much a threat as the Taliban. |
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| Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/5/2010 11:33 PM - 22 hours ago - Night - 3 rank - [direct link] An American member of the international force in Afghanistan was killed in fighting in the country's turbulent east, NATO announced Monday.
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| (future word: in Afghanistan five months ago has been, reports said Sunday) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/5/2010 4:17 AM - 1 day ago - Night - 2 rank - [direct link] A Japanese journalist who was abducted by apparent Taliban militants in Afghanistan five months ago has been freed by his captors, reports said Sunday.
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| (future word: turbulent south Sunday one day after President Hamid) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/5/2010 1:17 AM - 1 day ago - Night - 3 rank - [direct link] A coalition service member was killed in fighting in Afghanistan's turbulent south Sunday, one day after President Hamid Karzai moved a step closer to opening talks with Taliban who might be having ... |
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| 9/4/2010 - 2 days ago (9 total stories) |
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| (future word: Karzai said Saturday he will soon name the) USATODAY.com News - Top Stories - date posted: 9/4/2010 9:33 PM - 2 days ago - date added: 9/4/2010 10:02 PM - 1 day ago - Night - 3 rank - [direct link] In a further step toward reconciling with insurgents, President Hamid Karzai said Saturday he will soon name the members of a council tasked ... |
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| (future word: CNN on Saturday) CNN.com - date posted: 9/4/2010 4:05 PM - 2 days ago - date added: 9/4/2010 1:32 PM - 2 days ago - Afternoon - 3 rank - [direct link] An apparent U.S. drone strike killed four suspected militants in Pakistan near the Afghanistan border, two Pakistani intelligence officials told CNN on Saturday. |
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| (future word: largest bank after lines of, for a third day) NYT > Business - date posted: 9/4/2010 2:39 PM - 2 days ago - date added: 9/4/2010 3:02 PM - 2 days ago - Afternoon - 12 rank - [direct link] Afghanistan’s central bank was working on a deal to bail out the country’s largest bank after lines of depositors mobbed it for a third day. |
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| (future word: deputy rues early optimism on, commander said Saturday) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/4/2010 8:02 AM - 2 days ago - Morning - 2 rank - [direct link] NATO commanders were overly optimistic when they predicted quick success taking the key Taliban-held town of Marjah last winter, the outgoing deputy commander said Saturday.
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| 9/3/2010 - 3 days ago (4 total stories) |
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| (future word: three more years of combat, in Afghanistan before the US, likely to last years more) WSJ.com: What's News US - date posted: 9/3/2010 4:17 PM - 3 days ago - date added: 9/3/2010 1:32 PM - 3 days ago - Afternoon - 1 rank - [direct link] Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he envisions two or three more years of combat operations in Afghanistan before the U.S. transitions to an advisory role, a mission likely to last years more. |
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| (future word: face tough days ahead Thursday style=margin0 5px, Gates on Friday got a) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 9/3/2010 12:34 AM - 3 days ago - date added: 9/3/2010 2:47 AM - 3 days ago - Night - 6 rank - [direct link] As the last of 30,000 U.S. reinforcements arrive in Afghanistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Friday got a firsthand look at operations in the dangerous south.
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| (future word: candidate in this month Afghan parliamentary, Asia - September 11 2001) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/3/2010 9:17 AM - 3 days ago - Morning - 6 rank - [direct link] A candidate in this month's Afghan parliamentary elections has been wounded in a grenade attack amid growing political violence and insurgent attacks aimed at sabotaging the polls.
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| 9/2/2010 - 4 days ago (11 total stories) |
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| (future word: Kabul on Wednesday Afghanistan Central) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 9/2/2010 12:07 PM - 4 days ago - date added: 9/2/2010 12:47 PM - 4 days ago - Afternoon - 4 rank - [direct link] The Afghan president's brother — a major investor in the Kabul Bank — confirms to NBC News that funds were used to buy villas in Dubai but urges the U.S. to step in to prevent a financial panic.
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| (future word: planning a December 2009 suicide attack) Los Angeles Times - Top News - date posted: 9/2/2010 12:00 AM - 4 days ago - date added: 9/2/2010 12:02 AM - 4 days ago - Night - 1 rank - [direct link] Hakimullah Mahsud is the head of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, a group the U.S. affidavit alleges was also behind the killing of former Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto and attacks on NATO supply ... |
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| (future word: As of Thursday Sept 2, Afghanistan in late 2001 according to) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/2/2010 4:47 PM - 4 days ago - Afternoon - 18 rank - [direct link] As of Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010, at least 1,172 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ... |
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| (future word: flow problem after losing an) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/2/2010 9:40 AM - 4 days ago - Morning - 3 rank - [direct link] A Marine two-star general says the Taliban is experiencing a serious cash flow problem after losing an estimated half of its annual revenue from the drug trade in southern Afghanistan.
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| 9/1/2010 - 5 days ago (23 total stories) |
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| (future word: Afghanistan in June to assure, was safe Four days later he was) Los Angeles Times - Top News - date posted: 9/1/2010 4:38 PM - 5 days ago - date added: 9/1/2010 5:03 PM - 5 days ago - Evening - 1 rank - [direct link] Some families of service members killed in the war say the rules of engagement protect Afghan civilians at the expense of American troops. U.S. combat tolls have peaked this summer.Bill and Beverly ... |
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| (future word: bombing in May and in, Afghanistan in December) NYT > NYTimes.com Home - date posted: 9/1/2010 4:36 PM - 5 days ago - date added: 9/1/2010 4:47 PM - 5 days ago - Afternoon - 10 rank - [direct link] The Al Qaeda-linked group has been accused of playing a role in the failed Times Square bombing in May and in the suicide-bombing at a C.I.A. base in Afghanistan in December. |
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| (future word: Afghanistan including last year suicide bombing) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 9/1/2010 11:25 AM - 5 days ago - date added: 9/1/2010 5:32 PM - 5 days ago - Evening - 10 rank - [direct link] U.S. officials have charged the leader of Pakistan's Taliban with planning attacks against American forces in Afghanistan, including last year's suicide bombing that killed seven CIA employees.
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| (future word: In only eight months 2010 has become, the deadliest year for US) CNN.com - date posted: 9/1/2010 11:03 AM - 5 days ago - date added: 9/1/2010 9:02 AM - 5 days ago - Morning - 6 rank - [direct link] In only eight months, 2010 has become the deadliest year for U.S. troops in Afghanistan, according to a CNN count of Pentagon and NATO figures. |
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| (future word: supporters for next month parliamentary polls) CNN.com - date posted: 9/1/2010 6:23 AM - 5 days ago - date added: 9/1/2010 4:47 AM - 5 days ago - Night - 6 rank - [direct link] Afghanistan's election commission says violence against candidates and their supporters for next month's parliamentary polls is increasing. |
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| (future word: costs of expected veterans benefits) NYT > Business - date posted: 9/1/2010 3:00 AM - 5 days ago - date added: 9/1/2010 3:47 AM - 5 days ago - Night - 20 rank - [direct link] As the Afghanistan conflict drags on, the costs of expected veterans' benefits become a smaller fraction of the total cost of the conflict, an economist writes. |
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| (future word: is time to turn, more than seven years of costly, Iraq on Tuesday saying the) Philly.com News - date posted: 9/1/2010 12:03 AM - 5 days ago - date added: 9/1/2010 12:32 AM - 5 days ago - Night - 11 rank - [direct link] WASHINGTON - President Obama declared the end of more than seven years of costly, divisive combat in Iraq on Tuesday, saying the nation must shift its shrunken resources to a more dangerous war in ... |
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| (future word: Iraq over time to turn, in Iraq after seven long years of bloodshed, declaring firmly Tuesday night It time to turn) washingtonpost.com - Politics - date posted: 8/31/2010 9:46 PM - 6 days ago - date added: 9/1/2010 2:02 AM - 5 days ago - Night - 3 rank - [direct link] WASHINGTON -- Claiming no victory, President Barack Obama formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq after seven long years of bloodshed, declaring firmly Tuesday night: "It's time to turn the page." ... |
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| (future word: Taliban on Wednesday placing the, with planning last year suicide bombing) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/1/2010 1:17 PM - 5 days ago - Afternoon - 21 rank - [direct link] U.S. officials launched a broad legal offensive against Pakistan's Taliban on Wednesday, placing the group on its international terrorism blacklist and charging its leader with planning last year's ... |
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| (future word: start over after floods After fleeing the) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/1/2010 10:33 AM - 5 days ago - Morning - 11 rank - [direct link] After fleeing the Soviet invasion of his country with nothing, Afghan refugee Ziarat Gul spent three decades building a new life in neighboring Pakistan.
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| (future word: says the rising cost of) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/1/2010 9:48 AM - 5 days ago - Morning - 10 rank - [direct link] Polan's president says the rising cost of the war in Afghanistan is hampering a program to modernize the military.
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| (future word: Afghan province after three of its) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 9/1/2010 4:17 AM - 5 days ago - Night - 2 rank - [direct link] Aid group Oxfam says it is suspending work in a northeastern Afghan province after three of its workers were killed there.
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| 8/31/2010 - 6 days ago (15 total stories) |
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| (future word: training planned before departure for) chicagotribune.com - - date posted: 8/31/2010 10:00 PM - 5 days ago - date added: 8/31/2010 5:03 PM - 6 days ago - Evening - 10 rank - [direct link] 656th Transportation Company commander says more training planned before departure for AfghanistanA Chicago sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve bypassed the chain of command and asked two Illinois ... |
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| (future word: were killed Tuesday in Afghanistan) CNN.com - date posted: 8/31/2010 8:49 AM - 6 days ago - date added: 8/31/2010 8:17 AM - 6 days ago - Morning - 4 rank - [direct link] Five American service members were killed Tuesday in Afghanistan -- four of them in a roadside bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force said. |
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| (future word: Afghanistan on Tuesday the latest, dead since Saturday) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/31/2010 4:23 AM - 6 days ago - date added: 8/31/2010 4:47 AM - 6 days ago - Night - 6 rank - [direct link] Five U.S. troops were killed by roadside bombs and insurgent fire in southern and eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the latest casualties in a particularly bloody spell that has left 19 service members ... |
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| (future word: bombs in 2 days Few details, 18 since Saturday but the August total remains below July recordA roadside, Afghanistan on Tuesday the latest, dead since Saturday) Los Angeles Times - Top News - date posted: 8/31/2010 2:20 AM - 6 days ago - date added: 8/31/2010 2:47 AM - 6 days ago - Night - 1 rank - [direct link] Few details are released on the deaths. The spike in violence brings U.S. fatalities to 18 since Saturday, but the August total remains below July's record.A roadside bomb killed four U.S. troops in ... |
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| (future word: killed in 5 days Sudden end-of-August, tolls in June July Afghanistan -) washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights - date posted: 8/31/2010 12:00 AM - 6 days ago - date added: 8/31/2010 8:03 AM - 6 days ago - Morning - 3 rank - [direct link] Sudden end-of-August spike in Afghanistan follows record-high U.S.-troop death tolls in June, July.
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| (future word: Kabul just three months after a White) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/31/2010 12:18 PM - 6 days ago - Afternoon - 3 rank - [direct link] A bribery probe involving a top adviser to President Hamid Karzai has angered the Afghan leader and threatens to damage U.S. relations with Kabul just three months after a White House visit that ... |
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| (future word: Afghanistan on Tuesday ending the month with a, in only four days) StarTribune.com rss feed - date added: 8/31/2010 10:03 AM - 6 days ago - Morning - 3 rank - [direct link] Five more American troops were killed in action in Afghanistan on Tuesday, ending the month with a spike in bloodshed that has claimed the lives of 19 U.S. service members in only four days. |
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| (future word: Taliban The next battleground As, honor their first fallen comrade) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/31/2010 4:17 AM - 6 days ago - Night - 7 rank - [direct link] As some 400 U.S. and Afghan soldiers gather to honor their first fallen comrade, mournful Muslim prayers mingle with the stutter of machine gun fire and the thud of exploding grenades just beyond ... |
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| 8/30/2010 - 7 days ago (13 total stories) |
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| (future word: toll for August to 49, in the previous three days NATO said Tuesday) Los Angeles Times - Top News - date posted: 8/30/2010 10:47 PM - 6 days ago - date added: 8/30/2010 11:02 PM - 6 days ago - Night - 1 rank - [direct link] Five die in a single attack in Kandahar. The deaths bring the U.S. toll for August to 49, with 14 slain in the last three days.Roadside bombs killed eight members of the international force in ... |
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| (future word: in the months ahead call) NYT > NYTimes.com Home - date posted: 8/30/2010 7:05 PM - 7 days ago - date added: 8/30/2010 8:02 PM - 7 days ago - Evening - 5 rank - [direct link] New guidelines for turning some security duties over to Afghan forces in the months ahead call for allied troops to step back gradually from areas that are calmed. |
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| (future word: funeral is Wednesday The remains, planned for Wednesday) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/30/2010 3:32 AM - 7 days ago - Night - 5 rank - [direct link] The remains of a Vermont GI killed in Afghanistan are back in his home state, and a funeral is planned for Wednesday.
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| (future word: official said Tuesday that the, the capital last week Kabul) washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights - date added: 8/30/2010 1:32 AM - 7 days ago - Night - 7 rank - [direct link] KABUL -- An Afghan intelligence official said Tuesday that the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-i-Taiba orchestrated the deadly attack that targeted two guesthouses in the capital last week.
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| 8/29/2010 - 8 days ago (12 total stories) |
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| (future word: into retirement last week after pushing high-level) WSJ.com: What's News US - date posted: 8/29/2010 11:56 AM - 8 days ago - date added: 8/29/2010 9:02 AM - 8 days ago - Morning - 3 rank - [direct link] A top Afghan prosecutor says he and a colleague were abruptly forced into retirement last week after pushing high-level corruption cases touching on the Karzai administration. |
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| (future word: the weekend after several weeks of declining) NYT > NYTimes.com Home - date posted: 8/29/2010 11:48 AM - 8 days ago - date added: 8/29/2010 12:17 PM - 8 days ago - Afternoon - 3 rank - [direct link] Seven American soldiers were killed in fighting in Afghanistan over the weekend, after several weeks of declining death tolls among NATO forces. |
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| (future word: for the September Parliament elections, a hospital after being shot, Kabul Afghanistan Saturday Aug 28, 2010 On Saturday evening in Herat, the bodies Sunday of five) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/29/2010 3:39 AM - 8 days ago - date added: 8/29/2010 5:03 AM - 8 days ago - Morning - 9 rank - [direct link] Seven U.S. troops have died in weekend attacks in Afghanistan's embattled southern and eastern regions, while officials found the bodies Sunday of five kidnapped campaign workers for a female ... |
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| (future word: of Afghanistan Saturday Aug 28, pre-dawn attacks Saturday on a, were killed last year in a, suicide attack last year) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/28/2010 5:26 PM - 9 days ago - date added: 8/29/2010 12:02 AM - 8 days ago - Night - 24 rank - [direct link] U.S. and Afghan troops repelled attackers wearing American uniforms and suicide vests in a pair of simultaneous assaults on NATO bases near the Pakistani border, including one where seven CIA ... |
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| 8/28/2010 - 9 days ago (8 total stories) |
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| (future word: fired him this week after he repeatedly) NYT > NYTimes.com Home - date posted: 8/28/2010 10:19 AM - 9 days ago - date added: 8/28/2010 10:47 AM - 9 days ago - Morning - 1 rank - [direct link] One of the country’s most senior prosecutors said that President Hamid Karzai fired him this week after he repeatedly refused to block corruption investigations. |
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| (future word: were repelled after breaching perimeter) washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights - date posted: 8/28/2010 12:00 AM - 9 days ago - date added: 8/28/2010 6:16 AM - 9 days ago - Morning - 6 rank - [direct link] Insurgents, some disguised as U.S. troops, were repelled after breaching perimeter of one base.
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| (future word: Afghanistan on Sunday and two, region a day earlier NATO said) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/28/2010 11:17 PM - 8 days ago - Night - 1 rank - [direct link] An American serviceman was killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan on Sunday and two others were killed in battles in the country's eastern region a day earlier, NATO said.
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| (future word: dismissed him last week because he) StarTribune.com rss feed - date added: 8/28/2010 9:16 PM - 9 days ago - Evening - 2 rank - [direct link] A prosecutor said the Afghan president dismissed him last week because he repeatedly refused to block corruption investigations. Prosecutors are demoralized, he said. |
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| 8/27/2010 - 10 days ago (9 total stories) |
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| (future word: east on Saturday officials said) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/27/2010 7:42 PM - 10 days ago - date added: 8/27/2010 8:25 PM - 10 days ago - Evening - 5 rank - [direct link] Up to 30 Taliban insurgents, including suicide bombers, attacked a U.S. base in Afghanistan's east on Saturday, officials said, but there were no details available about possible casualties or ... |
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| (future word: haul A year since the) Los Angeles Times - Top News - date posted: 8/27/2010 1:15 PM - 10 days ago - date added: 8/27/2010 1:47 PM - 10 days ago - Afternoon - 1 rank - [direct link] A year since the U.S. troop buildup began with battalions descending on the Helmand River Valley, optimism about a quick defeat of the Taliban has given way to more sober assessments.If Marine Lance ... |
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| 8/26/2010 - 11 days ago (6 total stories) |
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| (future word: Karzai on Thursday criticized the, troops starting next July and said) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/26/2010 4:02 PM - 11 days ago - Afternoon - 3 rank - [direct link] President Hamid Karzai on Thursday criticized the U.S. plan to begin withdrawing troops starting next July and said the war on terror cannot succeed as long as the Taliban and their allies maintain ... |
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| (future word: As of Thursday Aug 26, Afghanistan in late 2001 according to) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/26/2010 2:03 PM - 11 days ago - Afternoon - 9 rank - [direct link] As of Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, at least 1,145 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ... |
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| (future word: Office speech Tuesday night President, spokesman said Thursday) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/26/2010 12:02 PM - 11 days ago - Afternoon - 2 rank - [direct link] With his Oval Office speech Tuesday night, President Barack Obama will signal a shift in America's focus from the Iraq War to the war in Afghanistan, his spokesman said Thursday.
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| (future word: rethink Afghanistan after fatal shooting) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/26/2010 6:47 AM - 11 days ago - Morning - 2 rank - [direct link] The shooting death of three Spaniards at a military base in Afghanistan has prompted renewed calls for the government to declare the war on the Taliban a failure and join other coalition countries in ... |
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| 8/25/2010 - 12 days ago (10 total stories) |
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| (future word: military trainers Wednesday the NATO, -- the second such incident, than a month and one) Los Angeles Times - Top News - date posted: 8/25/2010 5:15 AM - 12 days ago - date added: 8/25/2010 5:47 AM - 12 days ago - Morning - 1 rank - [direct link] An Afghan interpreter and the assailant also are killed. A riot erupts outside the military encampment.An Afghan police officer shot and killed two Western military trainers Wednesday, the NATO force ... |
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| (future word: fall ill after apparent gas, to hospital after a suspected, Afghan capital Wednesday another apparent) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/25/2010 4:54 AM - 12 days ago - date added: 8/25/2010 5:03 AM - 12 days ago - Morning - 17 rank - [direct link] About 40 schoolgirls became ill and were taken to hospital after a suspected gas poisoning in the Afghan capital Wednesday, another apparent attack by hardline Islamists opposed to female education.
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| (future word: troops clashed early Wednesday outside a) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/25/2010 12:47 AM - 12 days ago - Night - 3 rank - [direct link] Afghan police and Spanish troops clashed early Wednesday outside a base in western Afghanistan, leaving at least one policeman dead, local officials said.
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| 8/24/2010 - 13 days ago (13 total stories) |
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| (future word: it would soon make a) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/24/2010 5:11 PM - 13 days ago - date added: 8/24/2010 5:32 PM - 13 days ago - Evening - 5 rank - [direct link] A whistle-blowing website that drew the ire of U.S. officials for the release of classified Afghan war documents says on its Twitter page that it would soon make a new release.
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| (future word: Marine Years for Afghans, a few years before US forces, Corps said Tuesday) CNN.com - date posted: 8/24/2010 2:53 PM - 13 days ago - date added: 8/24/2010 7:47 PM - 13 days ago - Evening - 9 rank - [direct link] It will be a "few years" before U.S. forces in Afghanistan can turn over full responsibility for security operations to Afghan troops, the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps said Tuesday. |
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| (future word: President Obamas July 2011 deadline for) NYT > NYTimes.com Home - date posted: 8/24/2010 12:50 PM - 13 days ago - date added: 8/24/2010 1:32 PM - 13 days ago - Afternoon - 9 rank - [direct link] The commandant of the Marine Corps said that President Obama’s July 2011 deadline for the start of American withdrawals was “probably giving our enemy sustenance.” |
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| (future word: of Naik early Sunday by what) NYT > NYTimes.com Home - date posted: 8/24/2010 12:03 PM - 13 days ago - date added: 8/24/2010 12:33 PM - 13 days ago - Afternoon - 8 rank - [direct link] The governor of Tala Wa Barfak, a district in Baghlan Province, said the Afghans had been killed in the village of Naik early Sunday by what appeared to have been a raid carried out by special forces. |
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| (future word: hammering Afghanistan next year Afghanistan -) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 2/17/2010 10:32 AM - 201 days ago - date added: 8/24/2010 9:32 AM - 13 days ago - Morning - 12 rank - [direct link] Afghanistan - Asia - Government - Aid and Development - Helmand Province |
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| (future word: Guard died Sunday He says) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/24/2010 9:02 AM - 13 days ago - Morning - 6 rank - [direct link] A family friend says a 25-year-old Connecticut soldier has died in Afghanistan. Bob LeBrun says Steven DeLuzio of Glastonbury, a member of the Vermont National Guard, died Sunday. He says family and ... |
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| (future word: Afghanistan for years Marine Corps, a few years before Afghanistan will) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/24/2010 8:17 AM - 13 days ago - Morning - 7 rank - [direct link] Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Conway says it will probably be a "few years" before Afghanistan will be secure enough for the Marines to leave.
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| (future word: Southworth died Sunday) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/24/2010 5:02 AM - 13 days ago - Morning - 6 rank - [direct link] A 21-year-old Vermont National Guard soldier from Walden has been killed in Afghanistan. Reports say 21-year-old Tristan Southworth died Sunday.
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| (future word: ballot in next month Afghan parliamentary) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/24/2010 4:32 AM - 13 days ago - Night - 15 rank - [direct link] A shopkeeper in Kandahar city says what others are thinking: Casting a ballot in next month's Afghan parliamentary election isn't worth the risk.
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| 8/23/2010 - 14 days ago (13 total stories) |
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| (future word: in the next 15 months he must) NYT > NYTimes.com Home - date posted: 8/23/2010 7:45 PM - 14 days ago - date added: 8/23/2010 8:02 PM - 14 days ago - Evening - 3 rank - [direct link] Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV said that in the next 15 months he must recruit and train 141,000 new Afghan soldiers and police officers. |
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| (future word: least a year away A, least another year to recruit) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/23/2010 1:31 PM - 14 days ago - date added: 8/23/2010 10:02 PM - 13 days ago - Night - 2 rank - [direct link] A senior U.S. commander on Monday wouldn't predict when Afghanistan might take control of its own security and warned that NATO needs at least another year to recruit and train enough soldiers and ... |
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| (future word: at a time when government) Los Angeles Times - Top News - date posted: 8/23/2010 6:45 AM - 14 days ago - date added: 8/23/2010 7:17 AM - 14 days ago - Morning - 1 rank - [direct link] The separate explosions, which injure dozens, occur in the tribal belt at the Pakistani-Afghan border. A teenage suicide bomber attacks a mosque, and a remote-controlled bomb explodes at a school ... |
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| (future word: and a third near the) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/23/2010 6:32 AM - 14 days ago - date added: 8/23/2010 10:02 AM - 14 days ago - Morning - 9 rank - [direct link] Three bomb attacks in northwest Pakistan — two in tribal regions near the Afghan border and a third near the region's main city of Peshawar — killed at least 36 people Monday, officials and a witness ... |
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| (future word: Afghanistan on Sunday Aug 22) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/23/2010 5:11 AM - 14 days ago - date added: 8/23/2010 10:02 AM - 14 days ago - Morning - 7 rank - [direct link] Even as conflict rages in Afghanistan, authorities are trying to make life in the capital a little more normal by removing or repositioning Kabul's ubiquitous concrete blast walls.
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| (future word: than a year away A, than a year away from) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/23/2010 10:47 AM - 14 days ago - Morning - 1 rank - [direct link] A senior U.S. commander says Afghanistan is still more than a year away from building a security force with enough soldiers and police to protect the country.
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| StarTribune.com rss feed - date added: 8/23/2010 4:31 AM - 14 days ago - Night - 6 rank - [direct link] Roadside bombs killed four members of the international security force in Afghanistan on Monday, including one American, NATO reported. |
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| (future word: forces begins next year) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/23/2010 2:02 AM - 14 days ago - Night - 1 rank - [direct link] Gen. David Petraeus says there shouldn't be a sudden exodus of U.S. troops from Afghanistan when the process of withdrawing forces begins next year.
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| 8/22/2010 - 15 days ago (13 total stories) |
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| (future word: Next target The, an assault next month into the) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/22/2010 10:10 AM - 15 days ago - date added: 8/22/2010 11:03 AM - 15 days ago - Morning - 1 rank - [direct link] As Lt. Col. Peter N. Benchoff prepares for an assault next month into the birthplace of the Taliban, he doesn't sugarcoat the hurdles his troops face in this crucial swath of southern Afghanistan.
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| (future word: Kabul Afghanistan Friday Aug 20, gave assurances Sunday that the) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/22/2010 9:15 AM - 15 days ago - date added: 8/22/2010 9:47 AM - 15 days ago - Morning - 7 rank - [direct link] President Hamid Karzai gave assurances Sunday that the rights of Afghan women will not be sacrificed in pursuit of a peace deal with the Taliban.
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| (future word: takes off after refueling during, southern Afghanistan late Friday Aug 20, Afghanistan on Sunday and a, invaders decades ago was killed) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/22/2010 6:42 AM - 15 days ago - date added: 8/22/2010 7:02 AM - 15 days ago - Morning - 6 rank - [direct link] Four U.S. troops were killed in fighting in eastern and southern Afghanistan on Sunday, and a former guerrilla leader who battled Soviet invaders decades ago was killed by a roadside bomb in the ... |
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| (future word: Next US target, an assault next month into the) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/22/2010 10:02 AM - 15 days ago - Morning - 2 rank - [direct link] As Lt. Col. Peter N. Benchoff prepares for an assault next month into the birthplace of the Taliban, he doesn't sugarcoat the hurdles his troops face in this crucial swath of southern Afghanistan.
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| (future word: Afghanistan on Sunday and a, invaders decades ago was killed) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/22/2010 6:32 AM - 15 days ago - Morning - 14 rank - [direct link] Four U.S. troops were killed in fighting in eastern and southern Afghanistan on Sunday, and a former guerrilla leader who battled Soviet invaders decades ago was killed by a roadside bomb in the ... |
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| (future word: Afghanistan on Sunday and a, invaders decades ago was killed) StarTribune.com rss feed - date added: 8/22/2010 5:02 AM - 15 days ago - Morning - 3 rank - [direct link] Two U.S. troops were killed by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, and a former guerrilla leader who battled Soviet invaders decades ago was killed by a roadside bomb in the country's north. |
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| 8/21/2010 - 16 days ago (8 total stories) |
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| (future word: half-staff on Friday in honor) chicagotribune.com - - date posted: 8/20/2010 7:44 PM - 17 days ago - date added: 8/21/2010 5:47 AM - 16 days ago - Morning - 6 rank - [direct link] Flags fly half-staff at Glenbard South, PalatineTwo Chicago-area high schools lowered their school flags to half-staff on Friday in honor of 2005 graduates killed in the line of duty in Afghanistan. |
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| 8/20/2010 - 17 days ago (12 total stories) |
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| (future word: For the first time Afghan President) CNN.com - date posted: 8/20/2010 11:33 AM - 17 days ago - date added: 8/20/2010 9:47 AM - 17 days ago - Morning - 2 rank - [direct link] For the first time, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he is committed to allowing two key government anti-corruption units to operate without political interference. |
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| (future word: As of Thursday Aug 19, Afghanistan in late 2001 according to) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/20/2010 12:32 AM - 17 days ago - Night - 25 rank - [direct link] As of Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, at least 1,130 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press ... |
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| 8/19/2010 - 18 days ago (3 total stories) |
| CNN.com - date posted: 8/19/2010 4:45 AM - 18 days ago - date added: 8/19/2010 2:02 AM - 18 days ago - Night - 6 rank - [direct link] Afghanistan and several African nations are the most at risk to have a food shortage, an organization that works with the United Nations said in a report Thursday. |
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| (future word: arranged the early release of) washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights - date posted: 8/19/2010 12:00 AM - 18 days ago - date added: 8/19/2010 5:02 PM - 18 days ago - Evening - 1 rank - [direct link] Afghan president arranged the early release of an aide who had been arrested on bribery charges, Afghan officials said.
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| WSJ.com: What's News US - date posted: 8/19/2010 7:06 AM - 18 days ago - date added: 8/19/2010 4:17 AM - 18 days ago - Night - 1 rank - [direct link] The deadly work of a sniper attacking Marines in Helmand province contradicts the image of the Taliban as a rag-tag, ill-trained force. |
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| washingtonpost.com - Politics - date posted: 8/19/2010 3:33 PM - 18 days ago - date added: 8/19/2010 11:47 PM - 17 days ago - Night - 11 rank - [direct link] God help us. Could so many Americans really be that dumb, ill-informed, paranoid, gullible and goofy? It must be tricky being Barack Obama, winding down the U.S. presence in volatile Iraq, trying to ... |
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| 8/18/2010 - 19 days ago (5 total stories) |
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| (future word: into Afghanistan 20 years after the last) NYT > NYTimes.com Home - date posted: 8/18/2010 5:15 PM - 19 days ago - date added: 8/18/2010 6:17 PM - 19 days ago - Evening - 9 rank - [direct link] Moscow is gingerly pushing its way back into Afghanistan, 20 years after the last Russian soldier left. |
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| 8/17/2010 - 20 days ago (8 total stories) |
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| (future word: shop within four months US officials) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/17/2010 4:30 PM - 20 days ago - date added: 8/17/2010 5:17 PM - 20 days ago - Evening - 12 rank - [direct link] Afghan President Hamid Karzai failed to give the American embassy in Kabul advance notice that he was about to issue an edict ordering private security companies operating in Afghanistan to fold up ... |
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| (future word: country by year end a) Philly.com News - date posted: 8/17/2010 3:04 AM - 20 days ago - date added: 8/17/2010 3:32 AM - 20 days ago - Night - 21 rank - [direct link] KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's office abruptly announced plans Monday to close all private security companies in the country by year's end, a decision that could create more risk ... |
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| (future word: not long ago ran this) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/17/2010 9:47 PM - 20 days ago - Evening - 2 rank - [direct link] In the summer twilight, a crowd gathers on a baseball diamond in Seattle, candles in hand, to remember a sailor who not long ago ran this dusty path.
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| (future word: Afghanistan on Tuesday that his, at a time when more) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/17/2010 2:32 PM - 20 days ago - Afternoon - 22 rank - [direct link] U.S. Sen. John Kerry told the president of Afghanistan on Tuesday that his efforts to battle corruption were crucial if he wants to retain the support of U.S. taxpayers at a time when more American ... |
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| 8/16/2010 - 21 days ago (10 total stories) |
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| (future word: step down next year a move) WSJ.com: What's News US - date posted: 8/16/2010 1:00 PM - 21 days ago - date added: 8/16/2010 10:02 AM - 21 days ago - Morning - 2 rank - [direct link] Defense Secretary Gates plans to step down next year, a move that would take away a powerful voice on U.S. policy on Afghanistan and cast doubt on recently announced plans to cut the Pentagon budget. |
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| (future word: was the first confirmed use) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/16/2010 9:56 AM - 21 days ago - date added: 8/16/2010 10:17 AM - 21 days ago - Morning - 10 rank - [direct link] Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan stoned a young couple to death for adultery, which a rights group said was the first confirmed use of the punishment here since the hardline Islamist regime ... |
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| (future word: security within 4 months The move, Afghanistan within four months his spokesman) Los Angeles Times - Top News - date posted: 8/16/2010 6:28 AM - 21 days ago - date added: 8/16/2010 8:17 AM - 21 days ago - Morning - 1 rank - [direct link] The move appears to trump actions by NATO to rein in the contractors, which have incited public fury with incidents that have left civilians dead and injured. The guards are used extensively by the ... |
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| (future word: troops in July Afghanistan -) washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights - date posted: 8/16/2010 12:00 AM - 21 days ago - date added: 8/16/2010 6:17 AM - 21 days ago - Morning - 2 rank - [direct link] General cites progress in Afghanistan and backs Obama plan to begin withdrawing troops in July.
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| (future word: for adultery after they ran) StarTribune.com rss feed - date added: 8/16/2010 6:17 AM - 21 days ago - Morning - 6 rank - [direct link] Taliban militants stoned a young couple to death for adultery after they ran away from their families in northern Afghanistan, officials said Monday. |
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| (future word: Petraeus Time is key) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/16/2010 1:47 AM - 21 days ago - Night - 3 rank - [direct link] U.S. support for the 9-year Afghanistan war is slipping and the death toll is climbing.
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| 8/15/2010 - 22 days ago (10 total stories) |
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| (future word: Afghan forces may be given, forces as early as spring) Los Angeles Times - Top News - date posted: 8/16/2010 12:00 AM - 21 days ago - date added: 8/15/2010 6:47 PM - 22 days ago - Evening - 3 rank - [direct link] Pentagon chief Gates says that with NATO training troops ahead of schedule, some Afghan forces may be given security responsibilities, freeing up Western troops to focus on insurgent-held areas.
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| (future word: began in late 2001 unofficial tallies, showed on Sunday in the) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/15/2010 10:02 AM - 22 days ago - date added: 8/15/2010 10:47 AM - 22 days ago - Morning - 2 rank - [direct link] Total foreign military deaths in Afghanistan have passed 2,000 since the war began in late 2001, unofficial tallies showed on Sunday, in the approach to U.S. and Afghan elections and a U.S. strategy ... |
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| (future word: troops in July 2011 will depend, at the time) NYT > NYTimes.com Home - date posted: 8/15/2010 8:41 AM - 22 days ago - date added: 8/15/2010 9:17 AM - 22 days ago - Morning - 3 rank - [direct link] Gen. David H. Petraeus said that meeting President Obama’s goal of beginning a pullout of troops in July 2011 will depend on conditions at the time. |
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| (future word: campaign on Sunday to convince, succeed despite months of setbacks, forces in July 2011 the date) StarTribune.com rss feed - date added: 8/15/2010 7:17 PM - 22 days ago - Evening - 7 rank - [direct link] Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, began a campaign on Sunday to convince an increasingly skeptical public that the U.S.-led coalition can still succeed despite ... |
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| (future word: will take time Progress in, and needs time to take, comments broadcast Sunday that were) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/15/2010 6:47 AM - 22 days ago - Morning - 5 rank - [direct link] Progress in Afghanistan only began this spring and needs time to take root, Army Gen. David Petraeus said in comments broadcast Sunday that were aimed at shoring up American support for the war.
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| (future word: Afghanistan in July has been) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/15/2010 6:17 AM - 22 days ago - Morning - 3 rank - [direct link] Gen. David Petraeus (peh-TRAY'-uhs) says he's not a politician and never will be one. The popular Army four-star general, who took charge of the war in Afghanistan in July, has been rumored to covet ... |
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| 8/14/2010 - 23 days ago (10 total stories) |
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| (future word: bordering Afghanistan late Saturday officials told) CNN.com - date posted: 8/14/2010 3:13 PM - 23 days ago - date added: 8/14/2010 1:02 PM - 23 days ago - Afternoon - 3 rank - [direct link] A suspected U.S. drone strike killed two militants in Pakistan's tribal region bordering Afghanistan late Saturday, officials told CNN. |
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| (future word: team shortly before the murders, Press on Saturday) MSNBC.com: Top msnbc.com headlines - date posted: 8/14/2010 12:56 PM - 23 days ago - date added: 8/14/2010 1:47 PM - 23 days ago - Afternoon - 1 rank - [direct link] One of the gunmen who killed 10 charitable health workers in northern Afghanistan hitched a ride with the medical team shortly before the murders, the sole survivor of the attack told The Associated ... |
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| (future word: was massacred last week insurgent fighters) washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights - date posted: 8/14/2010 12:00 AM - 23 days ago - date added: 8/14/2010 2:17 PM - 23 days ago - Afternoon - 1 rank - [direct link] As security deteriorates in northern areas where a medical team was massacred last week, insurgent fighters turn new bases into hives of activity.
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| (future word: was massacred last week insurgents turn) washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights - date posted: 8/14/2010 12:00 AM - 23 days ago - date added: 8/14/2010 1:17 PM - 23 days ago - Afternoon - 1 rank - [direct link] As security deteriorates in northern areas where aa medical team was massacred last week, insurgents turn new bases into hives of activity. |
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| (future word: within a month Wikileaks -) washingtonpost.com - Today's Highlights - date posted: 8/14/2010 12:00 AM - 23 days ago - date added: 8/14/2010 8:02 AM - 23 days ago - Morning - 4 rank - [direct link] Despite U.S. warnings, group says it will release more Afghan war documents within a month.
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| (future word: team shortly before the murders, Press on Saturday) StarTribune.com rss feed - date added: 8/14/2010 6:17 PM - 23 days ago - Evening - 1 rank - [direct link] One of the gunmen who killed 10 charitable health workers in northern Afghanistan hitched a ride with the medical team shortly before the murders, the sole survivor of the attack told The Associated ... |
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| (future word: team shortly before the murders, Press on Saturday) Boston.com -- Latest news - date added: 8/14/2010 11:32 AM - 23 days ago |
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