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	<title>Crikey &#187; war in Afghanistan</title>
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		<title>The risk of leaving Afghanistan early</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/panetta-afghanistan-withdrawl-begins-and-ends-with-politics/2012/02/01/gIQAmoaliQ_blog.html?hpid=z1</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/panetta-afghanistan-withdrawl-begins-and-ends-with-politics/2012/02/01/gIQAmoaliQ_blog.html?hpid=z1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Defense Secretary said overnight that US and NATO were aiming to end all combat in Afghanistan by the end of next year. But what will the earlier withdrawal mean for Afghanistan? asks <b>David Ignatius</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Axis of Evil still relevant 10 years on</title>
		<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/29/axis-of-evil-ten-years-later.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/01/29/axis-of-evil-ten-years-later.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=271920</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<b>David Frum</b> helped to write George W Bush's iconic "Axis of Evil" speech a decade ago. That speech was heavily criticised at the time, but Bush's claims have all been proved true, says Frum.]]></description>
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		<title>Contrasting reactions to friendly fire in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/21/contrasting-reactions-to-having-soldiers-shot-by-afghan-allies/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2012/01/21/contrasting-reactions-to-having-soldiers-shot-by-afghan-allies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=270269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[France has suspended all operations with the Afghan army after four French troops were killed in friendly fire -- a stark comparison to Julia Gillard's reaction to three Aussies being shot last November, writes <b>Richard Farmer</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: another nebulous parliamentary debate isn&#8217;t good enough</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/22/afghanistan-another-nebulous-parliamentary-debate-isnt-good-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/22/afghanistan-another-nebulous-parliamentary-debate-isnt-good-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Abbott]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=260629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A parliamentary debate on Afghanistan in which the same lines about "seeing it through" are repeated is simply not good enough.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>One issue that unites across party lines</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/21/crikey-says-one-issue-that-unites-across-party-lines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/21/crikey-says-one-issue-that-unites-across-party-lines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crikey Says]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=260210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today in parliament, in what will kick off the final parliamentary sitting week of the year, Julia Gillard will deliver a statement on the war in Afghanistan.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Memo troops: don&#8217;t get shot during a transport strike</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/31/memo-troops-dont-get-shot-during-a-transport-strike/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/10/31/memo-troops-dont-get-shot-during-a-transport-strike/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=255926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps our news editors should ask if, in the future, our soldiers in Afghanistan could avoid being killed on grand final weekend, the Boxing Day Test, budget night or any transport strike, writes <b>Dr Rodger Shanahan</b>, who was the Chief of Army Visiting Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kabul wakes to more death &#8212; and unprecedented uncertainty</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/14/kabul-wakes-to-more-death-and-unprecedented-uncertainty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/14/kabul-wakes-to-more-death-and-unprecedented-uncertainty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kabul]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=246910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the sun rises in Kabul, helicopters are endlessly crossing the skies. As <b>Catherine James</b> writes, the latest attacks on the US embassy are some of the worst locals have seen.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kabul attack a devastating blow to security credibility</title>
		<link>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/afghanistan/110913/kabul-attack-afghanistan-war-US-embassy-NATO</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/afghanistan/110913/kabul-attack-afghanistan-war-US-embassy-NATO#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=246847</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kabul has been calm for the last few months, but a shock attack this week near the city's nerve centre has destroyed any faith Afghans had in their security forces, writes <b>Jean MacKenzie</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan 10 years on and still more questions than answers</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/12/afghanistan-10-years-on-and-still-more-questions-than-answers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/12/afghanistan-10-years-on-and-still-more-questions-than-answers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=246359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The war in Afghanistan is an experiment in a new form of war where "victory" will be measured against uncertain goals of stability, development, and reconstruction, writes <b>Dr Benjamin MacQueen</b>, deputy director, Global Terrorism Research Centre, Monash University.
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Afghan war: the waste in contracting out the war on terror</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/06/afghan-war-the-waste-in-contracting-out-the-war-on-terror/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/09/06/afghan-war-the-waste-in-contracting-out-the-war-on-terror/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antony Loewenstein</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=245280</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 10 years since 9/11, millions of people have been killed but countless firms have benefitted from the explosion in Western defence spending.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Essential: surge in opposition to Afghan involvement, voters split on rallies</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/30/essential-surge-in-opposition-to-afghan-involvement-voters-split-on-rallies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/08/30/essential-surge-in-opposition-to-afghan-involvement-voters-split-on-rallies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=243708</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Opposition to our involvement in Afghanistan has hit new highs, today's Essential Report finds.]]></description>
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		<title>Injured NY Times war photographer returns to page one</title>
		<link>http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/back-in-action-and-back-on-page-1/</link>
		<comments>http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/28/back-in-action-and-back-on-page-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=238446</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nine months ago <em>NY Times</em> photographer Joao Silva lost both his legs in a landmine explosion in Afghanistan. Today his photos returned to the front page of the paper.]]></description>
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		<title>US gets a blank cheque to do what it likes with our troops</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/24/us-gets-a-blank-cheque-to-do-what-it-likes-with-our-troops/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/24/us-gets-a-blank-cheque-to-do-what-it-likes-with-our-troops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 03:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=231331</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Without an Australian input into US foreign policy and strategic plans in Afghanistan, our contribution becomes little more than supplying mercenaries, writes <b>Bruce Haigh</b>, a political commentator and retired diplomat.]]></description>
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		<title>US troops could remain in Afghanistan for the long haul</title>
		<link>http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-Leaves-Door-Open-to-by-Gareth-Porter-110623-117.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-Leaves-Door-Open-to-by-Gareth-Porter-110623-117.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=231312</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama may be in the process of withdrawing troops from Afghanistan but recent comments suggest America is prepared to keep a substantial number of combat troops there beyond 2014, reports <b>Gareth Porter</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>WikiLeaks spokesman: Guardian, NYT wanted to rush war logs</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/16/wikileaks-spokesman-guardian-nyt-wanted-to-rush-war-logs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/16/wikileaks-spokesman-guardian-nyt-wanted-to-rush-war-logs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 02:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=229578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The doyens of the mainstream media were the ones flirting with danger over Wikileaks material, not the site itself, Kristinn Hrafnsson reveals. <b>Bernard Keane</b> and <b>Matthew Knott</b> report.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Better housing news but trend still down.</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/08/better-housing-news-but-trend-still-down/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/08/better-housing-news-but-trend-still-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An encouraging sign in the official Australian Bureau of Statistics figures for April.]]></description>
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		<title>The war in Afghanistan paradox</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/03/the-war-in-afghanistan-paradox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/03/the-war-in-afghanistan-paradox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 03:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Crikey readers have their say.]]></description>
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		<title>Taking us deeper into the war in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/06/03/talking-us-all-in-deeper-into-the-war-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/thestump/2011/06/03/talking-us-all-in-deeper-into-the-war-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:17:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=227130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The tragic deaths in Afghanistan of Australian servicemen keep coming and with every one of them our politicians keep talking us into the situation where there will be more of them, writes <b>Richard Farmer</b>. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The strange twilight nature of the war in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/02/rundle-the-strange-twilight-nature-of-the-war-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/02/rundle-the-strange-twilight-nature-of-the-war-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Rundle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADF]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[labor party]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Gillard's and Opposition leader Abbott's words on Lance Corporal Andrew Jones and Lieutenant Marcus Case showed the strange twilight nature of the war.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Talking us all in deeper</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/02/talking-us-all-in-deeper/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/02/talking-us-all-in-deeper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illicit drugs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[war on drugs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=226749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The tragic deaths in Afghanistan of Australian servicemen keep coming and with every one of them our politicians keep talking us into the situation where there will be more of them.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>A soldier&#8217;s toughest mission: coming home</title>
		<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/us/29soldiers.html?_r=1&#038;hp</link>
		<comments>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/us/29soldiers.html?_r=1&#038;hp#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 00:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=225967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After months away at war in Iraq or Afghanistan, many US soldiers struggle with the transition back to home life.  The <em>NY Times</em> interviews soldiers struggling with survivor guilt, injury and children they barely know.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/us/29soldiers.html?_r=1&#038;hp/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bin Laden &#8212; bad news alive, worse news dead</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/06/bin-laden-bad-news-alive-worse-news-dead/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/06/bin-laden-bad-news-alive-worse-news-dead/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 03:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[acts of terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[osama bin laden dead]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=221516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My grudge against this war on terror is greater than ever, and why should it not be? This war on terror has done more damage to Pakistan than any other country, writes <b>Wajeehah A. Sabahat</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/06/bin-laden-bad-news-alive-worse-news-dead/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>US Army kills civilians then poses with their bodies</title>
		<link>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,752310,00.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,752310,00.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 06:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=212359</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's a gruesome tale. US soliders in Afghanistan killed civilians and then posed, smiling, for photos with their corpses. NATO have been preparing for the release of the photos for months, reports <em>Der Spiegel</em>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Huckabee sees no &#8220;end game&#8221; for Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/mike-huckabee-afghanistan_n_827317.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/mike-huckabee-afghanistan_n_827317.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=206093</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mick Huckabee has become one of few high profile Republicans to speak out against the war in Afghanistan, citing no confidence in the President and a landscape that looks "like the surface of the moon," reports <b>Sam Stein</b>. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/23/mike-huckabee-afghanistan_n_827317.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Child abuse: the new Taliban tactic</title>
		<link>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/afghanistan/101227/afghanistan-war-taliban-us-medics-war-photos</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/afghanistan/101227/afghanistan-war-taliban-us-medics-war-photos#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 01:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[domestic violence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[US military]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=195098</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There's a rising number of domestic abuse cases in Afghanistan and the US military wonders if it is a new Taliban technique to help gain access to US military bases and gather intelligence, since military hospitals care for the wounded.]]></description>
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