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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan veterans on disability now 6,000]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Hill Times: More than 6,000 Canadian Forces members and discharged veterans who are receiving physical or psychiatric disability benefits from Veterans Affairs Canada have either served in Afghanistan or have a disability that has been related to their service in Afghanistan, the department says. The majority of the soldiers receiving benefits are likely suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or war-related psychiatric conditions, according to global figures the department and the Canadian Forces provided The Hill Times.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon,  8 Feb 2010 16:51:12 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A witness to horror]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Sydney Morning Herald: Anyone who has witnessed the horror of a charred body and the putrid stench of burned flesh knows how these sights and smells are seared into your psyche. But to witness such horrific injury to the body of a young woman who has purposefully done this to herself - in a desperate attempt to die &#8211; is almost too much to bear.  Sydney filmmaker Amin Palangi kept his head down and his eye behind the camera as he filmed shocking scenes of burned young women and girls beng treated in Afghan hospitals.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon,  8 Feb 2010 16:30:29 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan police kill seven boys collecting firewood]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reuters: Seven Afghan boys were shot dead on Saturday by police who mistook them for insurgents, a provincial police official said. The boys were collecting firewood when police opened fire on them in the border town of Spin Boldak, southern Kandahar province, Abdul Raziq, police commander for the town, said. The police had been detained and were being questioned, he said.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat,  6 Feb 2010 17:20:01 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[For some kids in Kandahar city, labour is the only life they know]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: There's a lot the sooty-faced boy doesn't know. His own name, for one thing. Or how much money he earns dishing out bowls of rice from his weathered metal stand. But he knows it's his job to feed his family. The boy leans an arm on the counter to chat with a visitor. If he had a dish rag tossed over one shoulder and a white T-shirt stretched over a beer gut, he'd look like a short-order cook at some Canadian greasy-spoon diner.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu,  4 Feb 2010 13:00:15 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women For Sale in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post: In Shinwar, a district of Nangarhar province, there are two markets, one called Shadal and the other, Pikheh... these markets have one main commodity. And that commodity is women. In Nangarhar markets exist where women are sold. Cases have been reported where a woman was sold with her five children. Another woman was sold to five different people and returned back to the original man who sold her, then killed her.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed,  3 Feb 2010 15:37:16 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghans protest to Iran over border killings]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reuters: Afghanistan protested on Tuesday against what it said was the killing of five of its nationals by Iranian border forces. Host to millions of Afghan refugees for decades, Iran is also a key transit route for Afghanistan's opium and heroin trade. The incident happened on Monday when a group of seven Afghans were trying to enter Iran, an Afghan foreign ministry official said, adding all were teenage males.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue,  2 Feb 2010 19:07:20 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan drug trade fuels insurgency]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[AFP: From the watchtower at an Afghan outpost, the Dutch soldiers can follow the growth of the pretty poppies that may one day pay for the weapons that kill them or their comrades. Taliban insurgents waging an increasingly deadly campaign against foreign troops make at least 100 million dollars a year from taxing Afghanistan's opium trade -- the world's biggest, US and Afghan officials say.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue,  2 Feb 2010 16:29:23 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Karzai&#8217;s Brother Tied To Corrupt Afghan Land Deals]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[NPR: In Afghanistan, the theft of public and private land is a growing form of corruption. President Hamid Karzai has vowed to tackle the vexing issue. But one obstacle to his vision is his own brother, who is allegedly at the center of land grabs in Kandahar province. In Afghanistan, the theft of public and private land is a growing form of corruption.... The spoils of corruption can be seen several times a week at Kabul's tiny airport: bags of money heading out of the country.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon,  1 Feb 2010 17:49:35 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[4-mile road costs &#163;70m: Simple road in Afghanistan costs more than F1 race track]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2010/01/31/4-mile-road-costs-70m-simple-road-in-afghanistan-costs-more-than-f1-race-track.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[NewsoftheWorld.co.uk: A SIMPLE road being built in Afghanistan by the British government has cost more than a modern Formula One race track because of rampant corruption among locals. The spiralling bill for the four-mile stretch is set to top &#163;70MILLION, up from &#163;4.5million. A top motor racing circuit in Istanbul, Turkey, was completed five years ago for &#163;65million.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:50:37 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan &#8216;geological reserves worth a trillion dollars&#8217;]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[AFP: Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest countries, is sitting on mineral and petroleum reserves worth an estimated one trillion dollars, President Hamid Karzai said Sunday. "The initial figures we have obtained show that our mineral deposits are worth a thousand billion dollars -- not a thousand million dollars but a thousand billion," he said.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:44:02 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Malalai Joya talks about her hopes for her country, her heroes and the London conference]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[New Statesman: Malalai Joya: "We Afghans know well that the US and its allies occupied Afghanistan for their own strategic, economic and regional interests and don't care about the wishes of our people. So the &quot;liberation&quot; of Afghan women was never part of the real agenda. It is just a lie. The so-called freedom given by the US to Afghanistan is enjoyed mainly by the warlords and drug lords, who are free to commit their crimes and do their drug trafficking."]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:49:07 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Mullah Imam Arrested for Raping Two Women]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PAN (Translated by RAWA): The police say that they have arrested a Mullah Imam (a religious cleric who leads the prayers) in connection with the rape of two women in the Imam Sahib District of Kunduz Province. Police chief of Imam Sahib District, Abdul Qayum Ibrahimi stated the culprit&#8217;s name as Mullah Rahmatullah and told PAN that he was an Imam in the mosque of the Baika village and had been arrested two days back as he thought to be involved in the rape of two women.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:49:16 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Terror comes at night in Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Asia Times: One quiet, wintry night last year in the eastern Afghan town of Khost, a young government employee named Ismatullah simply vanished. He had last been seen in the town's bazaar with a group of friends. Family members scoured Khost's dust-doused streets for days. Village elders contacted Taliban commanders in the area who were wont to kidnap government workers, but they had never heard of the young man. Even the governor got involved, ordering his police to round up nettlesome criminal gangs that sometimes preyed on young bazaar-goers for ransom.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:41:10 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Why buy the Taliban?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Guardian: After almost nine years of international military operations, billions of dollars in aid and thousands of Afghan and international lives, what Afghanistan needed was a new vision to deal with the complex set of problems. Instead, world leaders pledged &pound;87m to woo the Taliban back into government. Bravo, President Karzai! Bravo, international leaders!]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:13:59 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Women&#8217;s rights under attack in Afghanistan]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2010/01/28/women-s-rights-under-attack-in-afghanistan.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Channel 4 News: Women were promised greater protection after the invasion of Afghanistan, but Nima Elbagir finds an increasing number have forced to self-inflict injuries to escape abuse. When the Taliban were still in power the liberation of Afghanistan&#8217;s women was a cause celebre in the west - a moral justification for the invasion. Yet by the end of last year the United Nations was worriedly reporting that the number of violent incidents against women had risen to their highest since the fall of the Taliban.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:43:57 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Suicide Risk Rises For Young War Veterans]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sky News Online: Young soldiers returning from Afghanistan are up to three times more likely to kill themselves than civilians of the same age, according to the Mental Health Foundation. Suicide, crime and alcohol problems are of particular risk to the under 24s, the charity says, and more needs to be done to look after the mental health of troops who have served in wars. The Mental Health Foundation believes that, while money matters, it is important to raise awareness of what help people need.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:17:40 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AFGHANISTAN: Landmine deaths, injuries torment villagers]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[IRIN: &#8220;I was irrigating my land when I stepped on it&#8230; I heard a huge bang which knocked me over,&#8221; said Amanullah, a 26-year-old landmine victim from Nawzad District, Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan. Doctors managed to save his life but he lost both legs. &#8220;It makes me very sad when I think who is going to tend to my fields and feed my family,&#8221; he said. Mine blasts are common in volatile districts of Helmand where Taliban insurgents and pro-government forces have clashed fiercely in the past few years.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:17:22 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[In Afghanistan: Embracing Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Is No Method at All]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2010/01/27/in-afghanistan-embracing-gulbuddin-hekmatyar-is-no-method-at-all.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post: One thing that remains consistent over the last 30 years in observing America's participation in Afghanistan is that mistakes and errors of judgment, no matter how egregious or self-defeating, never seem to get corrected. In fact, in its effort to rationalize a growing culture of war-making from Vietnam to Afghanistan, America has come around to embracing the insanity of the fictional Colonel Kurtz.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:07:11 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Four in five Germans oppose Afghanistan troop hike: poll]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[AFP: Nearly 80 percent of Germans oppose Berlin&#8217;s plans to hike the number of troops in Afghanistan, according to a poll released Wednesday on the eve of a major international conference. Four out of five Germans said they disagreed with a stronger military role for Berlin in Afghanistan, the survey by the independent polling institute Forsa indicated.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:44:19 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Suffering of Afghans &#8216;unbearable&#8217;: Red Cross]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2010/01/26/suffering-of-afghans-unbearable-red-cross.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Geo TV: The suffering of Afghanistan&#8217;s people has reached "unbearable" levels as the conflict has intensified and spread across the country, a top international Red Cross official said Tuesday. Decades of conflict have impacted every family in the country, Pierre Kraehenbuehl, director of operations at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), told a news conference in Tokyo.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:02:57 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghan drug lords look West via new routes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Reuters: Afghan drug lords are smuggling more heroin through Iran to Europe, easing the burden on a traditional trafficking route through ex-Soviet Central Asia, Tajikistan's drug control chief said in an interview. With a long, leaky border with Afghanistan and lawlessness inherited from a bloody 1992-1997 civil war, Tajikistan has long been a haven for drug smuggling out of Afghanistan which produces nearly all of the world's opium, used to make heroin.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:52:47 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Young Afghan Girl Committed Self-immolation]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PAN (Translated by RAWA): 17-year-old Amina of Chakhansoor District of Nimroz Province committed self-immolation and died because of a forced engagement to an old man. Habibullah, one of Amina&#8217;s relatives, told PAN that Dur Mohammad had engaged his daughter (Amina) to 55-year old Faiz Mohammad and in exchange had engaged Faiz&#8217;s 22-year old daughter to himself.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:57:57 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Father kills daughter in Sar-i-Pul province of Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PAN: A father killed his 19-year-old daughter who refused to marry a 12-year-old boy in northern Sar-i-Pul province, the deputy governor said on Saturday. ... Maliha reportedly planned to tie the knot with her neighbour Hayatullah, who took here back to her house. Her father, Gul Muhammad, beat her to death after the man left.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:06:53 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama quietly continues to defend Bush&#8217;s terror policies]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[McClatchy Newspapers: Although the FBI has acknowledged it improperly obtained thousands of Americans' phone records for years, the Obama administration continues to assert that the bureau can obtain them without any formal legal process or court oversight. The FBI revealed this stance in a newly released report, troubling critics who'd hoped the bureau had been chastened enough by its own abuses to drop such a position.]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:03:42 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Israeli drones take over skies of Afghanistan]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Jerusalem Post:&#8204; While Israeli soldiers can't fight in the war in Afghanistan, Israeli drones can. Starting next week, five NATO member countries will be operating unmanned aerial vehicles produced in the Jewish state in anti-Taliban operations in the Central Asian country. Next week, officials from the German military will arrive to take delivery of an undisclosed number of Heron UAVs, made by Israel Aerospace Industries.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:59:59 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan&#8217;s women]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Le Monde Diplomatique: In northern Afghanistan, far away from the Taliban&#8217;s heartland, freedom remains elusive for most women. Forced marriages of young girls are still common and sex attacks are on the rise. Many say life has deteriorated after the US-led invasion because the occupation ushered in a new era of lawlessness. At the offices of the Afghanistan Human Rights Organisation in Sheberghan, Jowzjan province, women from throughout the region arrive with tales of misery and horror.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:59:00 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kabul traffic cops fight to keep city moving but government slow to pay]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Canadian Press: Pity the poor Kabul traffic police officer. Adding to the hazards of the job - dust, chaotic traffic and the occasional beatings from irate drivers - comes new insult to injury: No pay. The government just doesn't have the money right now, yet another sign of the precarious state of the country. Shafi Muhammad said he wasn't paid last month, but he's been promised he'll get his money at the end of this month.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:25:32 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan: Women Dying and Torture Run Amuck]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[t r u t h o u t: Two reports coming out of Afghanistan illustrate the depth of hypocrisy and subterfuge characterizing the US/NATO intervention in that country. One could cite a myriad of such examples, so immoral and wrong is the US war there. "Self-immolation is being used by increasing numbers of Afghan women to escape their dire circumstances ...."]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:30:44 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[UN Afghanistan survey points to huge scale of bribery]]></title>
<link>http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2010/01/19/un-afghanistan-survey-points-to-huge-scale-of-bribery.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[BBC News: Afghans paid $2.5bn (&pound;1.5bn) in bribes over the past 12 months, or the equivalent of almost one quarter of legitimate GDP, a UN report suggests. Surveying 7,600 people, it found nearly 60% more concerned about corruption than insecurity or unemployment. More than half the population had to pay at least one bribe to a public official last year, the report adds. The findings contrast sharply with a recent BBC survey in which the economy appeared to top Afghan concerns.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:55:54 -0600</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Kabul shuts down as Taliban target city centre]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[AFP: Sirens sounded through the deserted streets as ambulances and fire engines sped towards the main fighting in Pashtunistan Square where Taliban militants laid siege to major buildings in the heart of the capital... The Taliban said it had sent 20 suicide bombers into the heart of the capital, its targets including the presidential palace and the central bank.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:43:18 -0600</pubDate>
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