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Gordon Brown makes surprise trip to Afghanistan as Taliban step up attacks (The Guardian)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:04:41 GMT

The visit, the prime minister's second since he took office last year, came days after 10 French troops were killed in fierce fighting with the Taliban near Kabul. Three Polish troops were also killed this week, along with British Corporal Barry Dempsey from The Royal Highland Fusiliers. Yesterday it was confirmed a further three Canadian soldiers had been killed by a roadside bomb in Zhari...

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Army chief: We cannot beat the Taliban without reinforcements (The Independent)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:00:01 GMT

... southern frontline post of Garmsir as two key "centres of gravity" which have been taken from the Taliban. "They [the Taliban fighters] are recognised for what they are – a brutal, criminally orientated terrorist organisation with no interest in the Afghan population," he said. "The local population is overwhelmingly hostile to the Taliban. The Taliban is quite tactically...

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Taliban 'Behind Arms Factory Blasts' (Sky News )

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:21:01 GMT

The Taliban in Pakistan say they carried out a double suicide blast at a government arms factory near the country's capital.

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Taliban claim blasts at Pakistan ordnance complex (Alertnet)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:46:09 GMT

Source: Reuters ISLAMABAD, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for twin suicide blasts outside Pakistan's main defence industry complex on Thursday which killed about 40 people. "It was ...

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Brown: Our troops 'are Olympic heroes' (Metro.co.uk)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:30:27 GMT

Gordon Brown hailed British soldiers fighting the Taliban as the real heroes of the Olympic year, on a visit to Afghanistan.

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US MISSILES FORGED OSAMA-TALIBAN BOND (New York Post)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:54:41 GMT

The State Department documents released yesterday provide details of the evolving relationship between Taliban leader Mullah Omar and al Qaeda chief bin Laden over four months in 1998. The period begins on Aug. 21, one day after the missile attack, retaliation for the bombings of US embassies in Africa on Aug. 7.

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French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban (kansascity.com)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:01:00 GMT

A French patrol marches up a rocky and dusty Afghan mountain pass. Suddenly, Taliban insurgents open fire from front and back, setting off an hours-long gunfight - the deadliest for allied forces in Afghanistan in more than three years.

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French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban (OTB News)

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:31:37 GMT

PARIS (AP) — A French patrol marches up a rocky and dusty Afghan mountain pass. Suddenly, Taliban insurgents open fire from front and back, setting off an hours-long gunfight - the deadliest for allied forces in Afghanistan in more than three years….

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Taliban Claims Responsibility for Pakistan Bombings (Global Security)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:59:15 GMT

Taliban Claims Responsibility for Pakistan BombingsBy VOA NewsPolice in Pakistan say two suicide bombers have killed at least 60 people outside the nation's main weapons complex. At least 70 others were wounded in the blasts.Authorities say the attackers blew themselves up simultaneously outside the facility Thursday, as hundreds of workers headed home at the end of their shift. The heavily guarded...

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Taliban Says Pakistan Homicide Blasts Were Its Doing (Get Mash)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:30:03 GMT

Twin Taliban homicide bombings at Pakistan’s largest weapons complex killed at least 59 people Thursday, heightening the turmoil following Pervez Musharraf’s ouster as president. Read the full story

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Taliban Claims Responsibility for Pakistan Blasts (Get Mash)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:27:59 GMT

WAH, Pakistan, Aug. 21 — At least 60 people were killed and 100 injured in coordinated suicide bombings on the country’s largest army munitions factory here Thursday, the latest in a series of Taliban attacks against Pakistani government targets. Read the full story

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French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban (AP) (Get Mash)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:20:12 GMT

AP - A French patrol marches up a rocky and dusty Afghan mountain pass. Suddenly, Taliban insurgents open fire from front and back, setting off an hours-long gunfight the deadliest for allied forces in Afghanistan in more than three years. Read the full story

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Taliban creep closer to Kabul (Financial Time)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:53:00 GMT

Maidan Shah is a 30-minute drive from central Kabul, but locals say the mobile phone masts on a dusty hillock on the edge of town mark the beginning of Taliban territory.The town is the capital of Wardak, one of several provinces to the south, west and east of Kabul where the Taliban are successfully stripping away support among ordinary Afghans for their government and the foreign troops...

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Sarkozy tells French troops: Afghanistan needs you to keep fighting after Taliban ambush claims the lives of 10 comrades (Daily Mail)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:17:25 GMT

Sarkozy tells French troops: Afghanistan needs you to keep fighting after Taliban ambush claims the lives of 10 comradesLast updated at 3:17 PM on 20th August 2008French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited a military chapel in Kabul today where the bodies of 10 French soldiers killed in battle lay before they were to be flown home. Mr Sarkozy spoke to troops who lost comrades in a Taliban...

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'We have to be in Afghanistan,' Sarkozy insists after 10 soldiers are killed in massive Taliban ambush (Daily Mail)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:57:55 GMT

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has insisted today that he has no regrets about sending 700 more troops to Afghanistan, despite a massive Taliban ambush that killed ten French soldier and injured 21 more.

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Taliban Claim Credit For Suicide Bombing That Killed 50 In Pakistan (Free Internet Press)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:29:37 GMT

Suicide bombers struck the country's biggest munitions complex Thursday, killing more than 50 people, injuring at least 70 others and underscoring the lethal urgency of the threat posed by Islamic militants. Pakistan's Taliban movement claimed responsibility for the bombing, about 20 miles northwest of the capital, Islamabad. Workers leaving the weapons plant after their shifts accounted for...

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TALIBAN CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR PAKISTAN BLASTS (THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS)

noreply@blogger.com (Pastorius) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:21:00 GMT

In the wake of Musahrraf's resignation, the Taliban are making a play for control of Pakistan, and ultimately, Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. From the Washington Post : WAH, Pakistan, Aug. 21 -- At least 60 people were killed and 100 injured in coordinated suicide bombings on the country's largest army munitions factory here Thursday, the latest in a series of Taliban attacks against Pakistani...

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Taliban Takes Credit For Pakistan Suicide Blasts (The Washington Post)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:08:25 GMT

At least 45 people killed and 60 injured in a well-coordinated suicide bomb attack on a high-level army munitions factory.

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Taliban Kill 50, Despite Musharraf Ouster (Sweetness & Light)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:14:31 GMT

From a shocked Associated Press: Pakistani police gather around the body of a blast victim in Wah. Two suicide bombers killed 57 people when they blew themselves up outside Pakistan’s main military arms factory. Suicide bombing at Pakistan arms factory kills 50 By MUNIR AHMAD, Associated Press Writer ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Twin suicide bombings at a massive [...]

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Three NATO Soldiers, Thirty Taliban Killed In Afghanistan (Pakistan News)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:18:36 GMT

... paratroopers were killed and 21 others were wounded in Kabul province in one of the most lethal Taliban ground attacks on international forces in Afghanistan since 2001. The U.S.-led coalition says more than30 militants were killed in a battle with its troops in eastern Afghanistan. The coalition says in a statement that the clash took place in the eastern Laghman province on Wednesday....

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