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		<title>Blood on the Mexican border squeezed by opportunistic GOP</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/14/blood-on-the-mexican-border-squeezed-by-opportunistic-gop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/14/blood-on-the-mexican-border-squeezed-by-opportunistic-gop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Clayfield</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican drug cartels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[richard m nixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us presidential race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Perry has a knack for making comments that cause large swathes of the electorate to wince.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rabbani&#8217;s assassination &#8216;a death knell for peace&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/21/rabbanis-assassination-a-death-knell-for-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/21/rabbanis-assassination-a-death-knell-for-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace talks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban attacks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=248202</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council and former president, Burhanuddin Rabbani, was assassinated in his home yesterday by the Taliban, which has sent a clear message it will not be negotiated with, writes <b>Catherine James</b>, a freelance journalist in Kabul.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Vale Brett Wood, honourable man, Australian hero</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/25/vale-brett-wood-honourable-man-australian-hero/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/25/vale-brett-wood-honourable-man-australian-hero/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 02:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brett Wood]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=225240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>Rob Burgess</b> paid tribute yesterday, along with the rest of parliament, to Australia's latest casualty in the bloody Afghanistan conflict -- and his brother-in-law -- Sergeant Brett Wood.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>My enemy&#8217;s enemy is my friend: fragile US-Pakistani relations</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/23/my-enemys-enemy-is-my-friend-fragile-us-pakistani-relations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/23/my-enemys-enemy-is-my-friend-fragile-us-pakistani-relations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 03:06:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damien Kingsbury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abbottabad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[osama bin laden dead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakistan Taliban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US/Pakistan relations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=224643</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan needs to retain a strong alliance with Afghanistan, no matter who is in power, more than it needs the US.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>US deficit is unsustainable &#8230; watch out for the ramifications</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/07/us-deficit-is-unsustainable-watch-out-for-the-ramifications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/03/07/us-deficit-is-unsustainable-watch-out-for-the-ramifications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 02:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Schwab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iraq War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=208221</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like a drug addict who has cleaned out his pockets, it’s time to start stealing from the neighbours.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is America defeating the Haqqani network?</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/world/asia/27policy.html?src=twt&#038;twt=nytimes</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/world/asia/27policy.html?src=twt&#038;twt=nytimes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 02:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haqqani network]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kabul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A key group of Taliban fighters known as the Haqqani network have not conducted a large scale attack in Kabul for seven months, which suggests recent tactics from US troops are working, writes <b>Eric Schmitt</b>. 
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		<title>What did America think about our Afghan debate?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-american-take-on-the-afghan-debate/?from=scroller&#038;pos=3&#038;referrer=article&#038;link=text</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-american-take-on-the-afghan-debate/?from=scroller&#038;pos=3&#038;referrer=article&#038;link=text#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>f79</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Bleich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=183229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Plenty of Australians were skeptical of the "furious agreement" espoused by both major parties during parliament's debate on the war in Afghanistan, but United States Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich was glued to the screen and chuffed with the results, writes <b>Leo Shanahan</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mungo: cue applause for Greens on Afghanistan &#8230; but what have we learned?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/25/mungo-cue-applause-for-greens-on-afghanistan-but-what-have-we-learned/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/25/mungo-cue-applause-for-greens-on-afghanistan-but-what-have-we-learned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Vaughan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mungo MacCallum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Bandt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=180624</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The debate on Afghanistan was long overdue and the Greens are to be congratulated for forcing it upon a reluctant Government. But it must be said that we have learned very little from it to date.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Afghanistan: OK to be partisan</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/18/rethinking-afghanistan-its-ok-to-be-partisan-on-the-military/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/18/rethinking-afghanistan-its-ok-to-be-partisan-on-the-military/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lowy institute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rethinking Afghanistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=178950</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch closely in the parliamentary debate on Afghanistan this week for how often the speaking MPs remind you of their support for the troops. But there's nothing wrong with being partisan on military policy, writes Special Forces Afghanistan veteran and Lowy Institute associate <b>James Brown</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Two virility symbols and a saint &#8230; lucky country indeed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/18/mungo-two-virility-symbols-and-a-saint-lucky-country-indeed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/18/mungo-two-virility-symbols-and-a-saint-lucky-country-indeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 02:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mungo MacCallum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mungo MacCallum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australian dollar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mary mckillop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tony abbot]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=178855</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Judging from the shambling swagger he affects these days (part-Western gunslinger, part-silverback gorilla) Tony Abbott is brimming with confidence.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rethinking Afghanistan: risks, consequences need to be assessed</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/14/rethinking-afghanistan-risks-consequences-need-to-be-assessed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/14/rethinking-afghanistan-risks-consequences-need-to-be-assessed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian troops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rethinking Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam War]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=178344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The quality, relevance and consequent utility of general public debate concerning Australia’s military commitment to the UN-endorsed International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan is often problematic at best, writes <b>Neil James</b>, executive director, Australia Defence Association.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rethinking Afghanistan: no place for politics in military prosecution</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/13/rethinking-afghanistan-no-place-for-politics-in-military-prosecution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/13/rethinking-afghanistan-no-place-for-politics-in-military-prosecution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rethinking Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war in Afghanistan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=177971</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia has an independent process for military justice and a need to comply with international obligations. To suggest that the government should step in, as Tony Abbott did yesterday, is foolish, writes <b>Angela Priestley</b>, editor of <i>Lawyers Weekly</i>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Grattan: Abbott turns down the volume, Pyne cranks it back up</title>
		<link>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/bastardry-to-bitchiness-coalition-ratchets-up-heat-20101011-16g04.html?autostart=1</link>
		<comments>http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/bastardry-to-bitchiness-coalition-ratchets-up-heat-20101011-16g04.html?autostart=1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/12/grattan-abbott-turns-down-the-volume-pyne-cranks-it-back-up/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just as Tony Abbott was toning down the vitriol of his slings at Julia Gillard in the wake of last week's Afghanistan debacle, along came Christopher Pyne to reignite the flames. It was another gob smacking outburst, writes <b>Michelle Grattan</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Abbott goes to war: who was being looked after?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/11/abbott-goes-to-war-who-was-being-looked-after/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/11/abbott-goes-to-war-who-was-being-looked-after/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 02:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[embedded journalists]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=177467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbott and his media advisers probably thought it was a great idea to say he wanted to go out on operations in Afghanistan on his weekend visit but that the military brass stopped it because he was -- according to the subtext the advisers wanted people to read -- so valuable. At least it sounded a bit more gung-ho than missing a trip because of jet lag, writes <b>Noel Turnbull</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sweetman: Abbott was outmaneuvered on Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/politics-of-war-mired-in-a-haze/story-e6frere6-1225935490683</link>
		<comments>http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/opinion/politics-of-war-mired-in-a-haze/story-e6frere6-1225935490683#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 22:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=177184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a Coalition-endorsed theory making the rounds that Julia Gillard set a trap for Tony Abbott during this week's Afghanistan debacles. Even so, if it was such an obvious bait Abbott shouldn't have fallen for it, writes <b>Terry Sweetman</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>We need to make up our minds about Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/opinion/post/-/blog/paulmurray/post/2496/comment/1</link>
		<comments>http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/opinion/post/-/blog/paulmurray/post/2496/comment/1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Luke Buckmaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=176533</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia is set to have a parliamentary debate before the year's end about our involvement in Afghanistan. That debate can't come soon enough, because soldiers need and deserve moral support, writes <b>Paul Murray</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Traumatic brain injuries: the invisible wounds of Iraq and Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/02/AR2010100203969.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/02/AR2010100203969.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 23:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=176003</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ex-American soldiers who cannot remember, cannot understand speech and have large chunks cut out of their brains bear the signature wounds of Iraq and Afghanistan: traumatic brain injury. One study estimates the number of those affected could be as high as 320,000, writes <b>Christian Davenport</b>. ]]></description>
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		<title>Barns: the legality of sending Afghanis home</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/01/barns-the-legality-of-sending-afghanis-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/01/barns-the-legality-of-sending-afghanis-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The announcement this morning by Immigration Minister Chris Bowen that ''the percentage of successful [Afghan] refugee claims is likely to be lower than in the past” is, from a legal perspective, a troubling one, writes <b>Greg Barns</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/01/barns-the-legality-of-sending-afghanis-home/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Murder, conspiracy, war crimes and a death count tattoo</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/29/AR2010092904137.html?wpisrc=nl_natlalert</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/29/AR2010092904137.html?wpisrc=nl_natlalert#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war crimes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=175404</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An American investigation into war crimes in Afghanistan has resulted in five soldiers being charged with conspiring to murder unarmed civilians. One of them, Staff Sgt. Calvin R. Gibbs, has a tattoo that keeps count of his victims. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/29/AR2010092904137.html?wpisrc=nl_natlalert/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Violence and fraud mar Afghan election</title>
		<link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/19/afghanistan-election-fraud-delay-result</link>
		<comments>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/19/afghanistan-election-fraud-delay-result#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=172837</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The legitimacy of last weekend's Afghanistan election was immediately called into question following reports of widespread fraud and violence. At least 11 people were killed in insurgent attacks across the country. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/19/afghanistan-election-fraud-delay-result/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rudd doing what he should</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/14/rudd-doing-what-he-should/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/14/rudd-doing-what-he-should/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gillard ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newt gingrich]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=171437</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd is doing what he should be doing. Going off to the United Nations. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/09/14/rudd-doing-what-he-should/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Assange and the WikiLeaks fallout</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/25/rundle-honeytrap-for-the-grey-blur-assange-and-the-wikileaks-fallout/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/25/rundle-honeytrap-for-the-grey-blur-assange-and-the-wikileaks-fallout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Assange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=167355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The timing of the accusations against WikiLeaks' Julian Assange are curious, to say the least, even if one hesitates short of any conspiracy line. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/25/rundle-honeytrap-for-the-grey-blur-assange-and-the-wikileaks-fallout/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Forget the Taliban. Obama should be worried about the Democrats</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/25/forget-the-taliban-obama-should-be-worried-about-the-democrats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/25/forget-the-taliban-obama-should-be-worried-about-the-democrats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 03:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=167436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The mid-term election is going to be very bad for the Democrats, with one or both houses lost, writes <b>Michael Wolff</b> of Newser.com.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/25/forget-the-taliban-obama-should-be-worried-about-the-democrats/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>WikiLeaks and the &#8220;barbarism that is war&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/30/wikileaks-and-the-barbarism-that-is-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/30/wikileaks-and-the-barbarism-that-is-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laurie Oakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=159746</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>Crikey</em> readers weigh in on the debate surrounding WikiLeaks and the war in Afghanistan. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/30/wikileaks-and-the-barbarism-that-is-war/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Whatever their motivation, WikiLeaks undermine international humanitarian law</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/29/whatever-their-motivation-wikileaks-undermine-international-humanitarian-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/29/whatever-their-motivation-wikileaks-undermine-international-humanitarian-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghanistan war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guantanamo bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julian Assange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wikileaks Afghan War Diary]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=159086</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The vast bulk of material recently released by WikiLeaks would not be new in nature to those who keep up with the Afghanistan War or the difficulties and perennial moral quandaries of fighting wars generally, writes <b>Neil James</b>, executive director, Australia Defence Association
]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/07/29/whatever-their-motivation-wikileaks-undermine-international-humanitarian-law/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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