News
June 2007
30 Jun 07
Mississauga Cops Prepare to Deploy
Peaceniks Complain About Billboards Supporting the Troops
Opinion: The poppy problem - Why Canada should stay
Good Spin Won't Improve Situation in Helmand?
IED Factory Spotted in Oruzgan
NLD Considering Extending AFG Mission
29 Jun 07
CDS: CF Can Handle Mission Beyond 2009 (if Necessary)
CAN's Support to AFG Remains Strong: Envoy
Bravery, Service Medals for CF Spec Ops Forces
Contracting Out More of the Support for ISAF Troops
Big, Wet Storm for CF in K'Har
CIMIC'ing Around Kanadhar: Photo 1 - Photo 2 - Photo 3
Cleric Leery About Supporting the Troops on Canada Day - Kingstonians Show Their Support
Opinion: CAN PM Softening on AFG Mission
NATO Wrestling with Future in AFG
Taliban Imposing Occupation Taxes in Helmand - Drifting Toward Kabul?
What Happens When You Say \"No\" to Taliban Recruiters
Helmand, Kabul Residents of Different Minds
World Bank Economist: Legalizing Poppy Production \"a non-starter\"
28 Jun 07
Hillier: CF Won't Be \"Out of Breath\" by 2009
NATO: Don't Expect Fast Air Changes Against Taliban - Village Leaders Admit Taliban Using Human Shields
-Whiners- Critics Urge Wider Mandate for AFG Detainee Probe - "The hollow inquiry"
Survey Says Dropping Int'l Support for AFG Mission - The Survey
Opinion: Put a price on human life? You bet - Letter: Be proud - PM realizes unpopular mission becoming too costly politically
CF Navy Cranking Up Conduct as Prisoner Trg as Persian Gulf Deployment Looms
News Search Afghanistan 280743 Jun 07
Taliban Cleared from Hive in Oruzgan
Closer Look at Helmand - Teaching Journalists There
More on Taliban-Drug Links - Gotta Get a Grip on the Drug Lords
27 Jun 07
Remembering CPL Bouzane - More - SGT Karigiannis' Funeral Saturday
Winnipeg Surgeon Heads Over to Help Out in K'Har
CAN PRT Honours Outgoing AFG Cop Generals - AFG Cops Face Uphill Fight
Opinion: Harper's J-turn on Afghanistan - Harper can't dodge the decision on the war's future - Forge consensus on Afghan role - Time to rethink Afghanistan? - Support never more important - Quebecers support our troops - Afghanistan asked and we courageously agreed
Labbatt Helps CF Troops in AFG Have a "Blue" Canada Day
War Artist Gets Day Off - About the War Artist
K'Har Motorcyclist Nailed for Not Stopping at Security Cordon
Taliban Using Soviet Leftovers
Critics urge wider mandate for Afghan detainee probe
USA General: NATO Rules Avoid AFG Civvy Deaths - NLD Def Min: We Hit What We Aim At, and Nothing More
AFG MP: Massacres in Helmand "Conspiracy"
AQ Coaching Taliban in Media Relations? - How They're Winning Hearts & Minds - Another Way
Mo' on AFG Producing Mo' Opium - Drug Fight'll Take Years - Meanwhile, AFG Junkies Can't Get Help
ISAF Spots IED Factory in Tarin Kowt
ISAF Looks Into Media Reports of Alleged Abuse
26 Jun 07
Fallen Given Highway Salute - Going Home
Bond Between CAN, AFG Troops Grow through Training, Mentoring
Still Deciding on Khadr Boy's Fate
Opinion: What our lack of stomach means - Support never more important - Living a lie over Afghanistan
More on Taliban Using (Little) Boy Bombers - Sign Taliban is Losing? - Bit o' Taliban Propaganda Disinformation Spin
Good Guys Back in Ghorak - More - Kickin' Ass in Shah Wali Kot Region, Too
Brit W & S Forester Killed in Helmand
Brits Building Schools in Helmand
Afghans Starting to Get Pissed Over Civvy Deaths - I Guess This Ain't Helping
ISAF Spokesperson: "regrets the loss of innocent life" in PAK Raid - Wazir Tribesmen Pissed
Helmand Becoming Drug Supply Hub - More - more - Value Added Work Happening in AFG - UN Report: "The Helmand province, severely threatened by insurgency, is becoming the world's biggest drug supplier, with illicit cultivation larger than in the rest of the country put together and even than entire nations such as Myanmar or even Colombia" - Full Report (7.28 MB .pdf)
Senlis Now Pressing UK to Rethink Drug Policy
Radio Free Europe News Summary: Arabs Fighting Again in AFG - More
25 Jun 07
Latest Fallen are Home - More - more - more - more
CF Detainee Probe Will Investigate CF Handling of Prisoners
Mountie Says Taliban Supported by Heroin Trade - With Kabul as Landlord in Some Cases?
Opinion: NATO must set example in Kandahar - Will PM become a casualty of Afghanistan? - Canada's presence justified - Is democracy worth the cost? - Stay in Afghanistan
News Search Afghanistan 250736EDT Jun 07
One Brit Killed, Four Injured in Helmand Blast
Not Just Human Suicide Bombers Anymore - Taliban Adopting Modern Technology
\"Taliban fighters attack U.S. or NATO forces in populated areas, then retreat to civilian homes.\"
Taliban Beheads Teen Son of Helmand Police Chief
A Bit More Detail on Associated Press' Figures on Civvy Deaths
Arming Afghans With Good Governance
24 Jun 07
Latest Fallen Coming Home Today
More on Anti-Vandoo Parade - More - more - How Some Quebecois Don't Get It
Troops in K'Har Jeer at Taliban Jack on TV
The Fight for CAN Public Opinion - Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight....
Three AFG Cops Killed in K'har Assault
ISAF: How the Taliban is Fighting Dirty
Desecration of Dead Afghan, or Taliban Info Ops in K'Har?
Slideshow: USA Army Takin' on Taliban in Helmand
AUS, NLD Lead the Way in Chora Valley - AUS Double Checking with NLD, Though
News Search Afghanistan 240846EDT Jun 07 (.pdf)
BGR Troops Now Guard Inner Perimeter at KAF
Embedded with Brit Recce in Helmand - How the Brits Nail the Taliban in Helmand -
Someone's Shooting into PAK; PAK Blames Foreign Troops - US Forces? - Where the Complaints are Coming From
23 Jun 07
More Remembering of the Fallen - More - Toronto Lowers Flag for Latest Fallen - More on the Soldier & The Pin Up
CF Keeps M-Gators on Base Now - More - more - more
CF Officer: Taliban Back in Panjwai - More
CF Cavalry Help Out AFG Cop Checkpoint
PM: No Mission Extension without Consensus of Canadians - More - more - Reuters' Take - more - more
Opinion: Nothing Wrong with Supporting the Troops - \"Liberty and the Canadian Forces are safe again, thanks to the unholy ire of people who like car magnets.\" - \"Whether the slogan 'Support Our Troops' is pro-war or pro-soldier is in the eye of the beholder\" - Ribbons mean a lot to our soldiers - Time for PM to come clean on war -Support our soldiers, but do so 'wholemindedly'
ISAF Highlights What Taliban is REALLY Doing (Is MSM Listening?) - How About the NLD General's Account? - More - Taliban Using Child Bombers
CAN Combat Artist @ FOB with QRF - Q&A on Helmand From BBC Embed
Blog By (What Appears to Be) Logistician in K'Har
AFG Pres: Ya Gotta Be More Careful, NATO, About Civvy Deaths - More - more - Associated Press: More Civvies Killed by NATO Than Bad Guys?!?!?! - Meanwhile, Taliban Getting Nailed in South
NATO Boss: Civvy Deaths Won't Undermine NATO Mission
Two EST Troops Killed in Rocket Attack in Helmand
QC Premier to Vandoos Headed Downrange: \"You are the acting arm of Quebec pacifism\" - NATO Boss to Quebecois: \"It is not a combat mission; it is a reconstruction mission, but to make [reconstruction possible, we have to fight."] - Peaceniks There - Vandoo Protest Comes and Goes
ISAF: They Started It, and They Chose Where to Start It - NATO Will Look Into It
Brit Armour in the Fight Against Taliban in S. AFG - BBC Embed in Same Area
AFG Looking into IRN Infiltration
22 Jun 07
Sending the Fallen Home - More - more - more - more - Supposed to be Home in August - Missing the Fallen - More - more - Pinup Girl Did Write to One of the Fallen
More on Media "Analysis" of Use of Tractor Vehicles in AFG - More - Even Reader "Analysis"
CAN Def Min to Macleans: \"We're Not Budging\"
Washington Times Visits CAN PRT Team
CAN General Has Good Things to Say About Cdn Nabbed for Drugs
NATO Boss: We Need Ya' Past 2009, Canada - More - more - more
Vandoos Hit the Streets, Show the Flag Pre-Deployment
Karzai: Taliban Not Long-Term Threat to AFG
A Few Whiners at Toronto's Decision to Keep Support the Troops Ribbons on EMS Vehicles - Editorial 1 - Editorial 2 - Letters to the Editor
NATO Suggests Taliban Full of Crap Saying They've Taken Areas in South
Opinion: Give Afghans a Chance
VBIED Attack Headed Off in K'Har City
More Taliban Using Human Shields in South - Editorial Second Guessing USA Troops on the Ground
How Taliban Using Human Shields Undermines Their Support - Taliban to Focus More on Kabul Targets - More - Taliban in R&R Mode? - Killing Peg Leg Taliban Boss a Mistake?!? - Peg Leg Squealer's Dead - Radio Taliban Back on the Air - Trying to Talk with Taliban = More Fighting
Sheriff's Back in Town in Part of Oruzgan
POL Troops Refuse to Serve because of Under-Armoured Vehicles
UN Stops Aid to South Because of Attacks & Looting
21 Jun 07
Three PPCLI Troops Killed by IED: Third Fallen Identified - ISAF Statement - Commander in Chief's Statement - Prime Minister's Statement - Def Min's Statement - Is This the Same Guy Who Wrote About the Maclean's Pin Up Girl? - It Was - Family of One of the Fallen Says He Wanted to Make a Difference - More - And the Second Guessing Begins! - More - Most Troops Comfortable with Gator - More - more - Progress Being Made Where Latest Troops were Killed
Vandoo Live Fire in Wainwright Before Heading Over - More on Peacenik Direct Mail, Protests - Quebec Nat'l Assembly Supports the Vandoos (With Some Rude MNA's Sprinkled In)
NATO Sec Gen Speaking to Media in Montreal Later Today
Kandahar City: Safer, but Emptier
Toronto City Council Removes Head from Butt, Allows Support the Troops Magnets on Muni Vehicles - More
Calgary Student in Jail in AFG Could Be Free Soon
Roundup - Who's Responsible for Civvy Deaths?
NLD Aid Group Says Military Mission Failing
Translation: Taliban is Lying - That Said, They CLAIM They Swarm Back After NATO Forces Leave - More - More on Taliban Tactics Becoming Iraq-icized
Schools Trying to Get Started Up Again After Taliban Closures
Turning it Back Around to the Media
20 Jun 07
Three CF Soldiers Killed in S. AFG: Canadian Forces Statement - Two Identified with 3 PPCLI - Canadian Press - Can West News Svc - CTV.ca - Reuters
Big Punch-Up in S. Kandahar Province
Bowmanville Remembers TPR Caswell - Funeral Today - More - more
CAN Rejected Plan to Compensate AFG Workers Injured, Maimed on the Job?
UN AFG Special Envoy on Taliban Deliberately Killing Civvies: "Those responsible for these attacks do not show their faces. What is clear is that those attacking Afghanistan today – its institutions and its international partners – are arrogant, criminal and marginal. They are the enemies of Afghan life, faith and law. They will not succeed." - More - UN Child Envoy Bashes Taliban More than Coalition - Tensions Continue Over Civvy Deaths - More - Aid Umbrella Group Statement Expressing Concern (.pdf)
CAN For Min Calls Taliban Threat PR Ploy - More - more - Mil, Security Experts Agree - Still, Can't Hurt toCheck Out the Video, Right?
Mystery CAN Boy Arrested in AFG Could Be Out on Bail Soon?
Opinion: How to Lose in AFG - \"Moderate Taliban\" is an oxymoron
AFG Cops Withdraw from District in K'Har Province
More on Toronto Cops, EMS Told to Remove Yellow Ribbons from Vehicles - Maybe TO Mayor Should Explain Move to Caswell Family? - More - more - more
UK Envoy to AFG: It's a Marathon, not a Sprint
AFG Pres Says Taliban Fighting Less Conventional, More Insurgent Style - NYT Login if needed - Taliban Seen on the Move
19 Jun 07
CAN Commons Def Committee Makes Case for Deployment Past 2009 - More - Calls for Debate in Parliament - Worries About Detainees? - Report Notice - Report (174 pg. .pdf)
Pro-Troops Rally Planned for Vandoos Headed Downrange 22 Jun 07 - Letter to the Troops from Land Forces Quebec (.pdf) - Meanwhile, City of Toronto Pulls Yellow Ribbons from Cop, Fire Vehicles
CAN Company to Help Map IED Patterns for CF
CAN UN Official, Busted for Hash Possession, Gets Four Years
CF Gate Guards @ K'Har Make Cultural Connections
More Money for Fallen Funeral Expenses - More
Blow-by-Blow of 15 Jun 07 Homicide Bomber Attack on NLD Forces in Tarin Kowt
Taliban Headed North Following Ass-Kicking in South?
UN Deminers Still At It in South, Even If Under Attack
IED Takes Out Three Coalition Troops, AFG Interpreter in K'Har
One NATO Soldier, Two AFG Cops Killed in Oruzgan Province - NLD Sgt-Maj Fallen - Lotsa Fighting in Oruzgan - Taliban Taking Some Ground
Were Taliban Hiding in School? - Survivors Say They Were Forced to Stay in the School - More - Hey, Taliban are Using Mosques for Cover, Why Not Schools?
Women Still Don't Get Enough Respect in AFG
Opinion: There's grounds for hope in Afghanistan - The Taliban's true colours
Pentagon Issues \"What Not to Take Home\" Cards to Troops
EU Police Training Mission Under Way
News Search Afghanistan 190746EDT Jun 07
18 Jun 07
Hillier: Bombs Aimed at Influencing Foreign Public Opinion - More on Big CF Meeting in K'Har
CAN Condemns Homicide Bombing of AFG Cop Bus
CAN PM Says Politicking Drowns Out Accomplishments of the Troops
CAN Combat Sketch Artist Outside the Wire
More Complaints about CAN Support by AFG Cops
PCO Report: Tough to Get Rid of Poppies
Looking Into CAN Aid Worker's Death
"Somebody's about to get some bombs for Fathers' Day"
Survey Says Most Germans Want DEU Troops to GTFO
UK Tabloid: Brits Got Involved in AFG Because USA Wanted to Nuke
17 Jun 07
Vandoos Would Have Preferred Combat Jobs Right from the Start, Not Happy with Media Coverage (in French) - Rough English Translation
CDS: Training AFG Army the Priority
Column: There are Never Enough Flags
UN Asks Taliban for Ceasefire to Distribute Polio Vaccine
Reports of Chechens in AFG Really RUS Disinfo?
Opinion: Minister Should Read His Briefing Notes - The War is Winnable - Peacenik Letters to Vandoos \"Poisonous\" - - -
CBC Reporter Gets Ride on Test Drive of NLD Tanks
Retired Warlords Chomping at the Bit to Hit Taliban
List o' Major Homicide Bomb Attacks since 2002
NATO Catches Flak for Civvy Deaths Instead of Tailban
Worries About Slow Brit MedEvac in AFG - More - Kit Shortages, Too?
Taliban Bag Man Caught in North
16 Jun 07
One NLD Soldier Dead, Three Injured in Homicide Bombing Attack - More - Five Kids Nailed, Too
Who ISN'T Short of Choppers? - More
NATO: We ARE Reducing Civvy Cas
FRA Sending More Trainers - More on Mo' Trainers
More on IRN-Taliban Links - Are They, or Aren't They Helping Taliban? - The Help REALLY Coming from CHN?
Taliban Winning Hearts, Minds, Part 3 - More on Taliban Child Soldiers - Maybe Sending Baby Taliban to UK?
Embed: Brits Like to Talk About the Weather
PAK Army Hunkered Down, Hiding from Taliban?
15 Jun 07
TPR Caswell Arriving Home Today - Grieving for a Future That Will No Longer Be
Close Call for CAN Convoy in K'Har: CBC Online - Canadian Press - CTV News Online
CAN Might Help Rebuild Irrigation Dam North of K'Har City
Associated Press: CAN Offering More AFG Army Embed Training Units
CAN, Asian Dev Bank Fund Kandahar-Spin Boldak Road Project - Project Summary - CIDA's Piece - CIDA Summary of Project - Apparently, CAN Found More Money Than Originally Announced
More on Vandoos as Vulnerable as Opinion Changing Targets for Taliban - The Peacenik Letters, in English & French - News Release - Vandoos Are Already Fighting Some of the Fight in AFG
Homicide Bomber Attacks in K'Har, Uruzgan - Taliban Disinfo?
NDP Whinging About Detainee Treatment, Paperwork - The Paperwork (.pdf) - More - more
Trying to Get Maclean's Cover Girl to K'Har - Kinga's Photos
Brit Sappers Help Dig Irrigation Ditches in Helmand
NATO Def Mins to Talk AFG Today - USA Def Sec: AFG Mission Still Working (Even If Not Perfect)
Red Cross: Delivering Aid Getting Harder
How TV Embed Deals with Helmand Sand, Dust
Brit General: Taliban Spring Offensive, NOT - Is Taliban Really Setting Agenda? - Kiddie Snatching Recruits from PAK
POL Troops Fall in to Ghazni, Paktika - ROM May Send Mo' Troops
Ethnic Tension Among Taliban in PAK
Gays Doing Better in Post-Taliban AFG
14 Jun 07
TPR Caswell On His Way Home - Remembered by Colleagues - Recce Sqn Pushes On
MCPL Priede Funeral: 'You got to carry your friends'
CAN Eying Gunship Buy? - Meanwhile, Transport Choppers Still Needed on the Ground
Ottawa Thinks Taliban will Target Vandoos to Sway CAN Public Opinion - Calling Peacenik Direct Mail Spade a Spade
News Search Afghanistan 140715EDT Jun 07
AFG to Ban PAK Private Vehicles from Crossing into Spin Boldak
Foreigners Helping Taliban in Northern K'Har Province - Bad Guys Massing in N. K'Har - How Taliban is Spreading from South to North
Former CAN Battle Group Commander Pumps Up AFV Makers in London, Ontario
Opinion: Rebuilding the Answer in Helmand
CAN Combat Sketch Blogger - As Opposed to, Say, Predictable War?
Here's How Taliban Got At Least ONE NLD-Pattern M-16
November 2006 CAN Briefing Note Highlights Taliban Resurgence
Now, USA Says IRN GOV'T Helping Taliban - Maybe? - "Likely" - Transcript - Message Reinforcement - AFG Def Min: IRN Isn't Arming Taliban
UN Condemns Taliban Shooting of Female Teacher, Students - More - Still, AFG Women Soldier On - More
USA Congress Pushing for Opium Eradication - And It Looks Like It'll Be A Bigger Crop - More - Wrestling with Addiction, Too
Taste of Taliban World in Parts of PAK
13 Jun 07
TPR Caswell was Pallbearer for TPR Patrick Pentland - Supposed to Call to Wish Brother Happy Birthday - More - Proud to Wear Uniform - More - 'He couldn't wait to come home' - Fatal Route Risky (Are Many Routes REALLY Safe?) - Army.ca Debate on MCPL's Route Assessment in National Post
MCPL Priede Remembered at Gagetown Funeral
Taliban Plant IEDs at K'Har Hospital - Bike Bomber Nails AGF Cop
NATO Reviewing Procedures (Again) After Latest Friendly Fire Cas
Calgary Highlanders, Other Reservists Prep for Next Year's ROTO
News search "Afghanistan" 130736EDT Jun 07
USA Pressing for More NATO Trainers in AFG
Fmr Brit Squaddie's View of Friendly Fire on CivviesUSA Para Killed in HelmandNLD PM Calls on World to Do More in AFGTalking to the FamiliesDoesn't EVERYONE Want it Safer, Faster? - More of What UN Envoy Had to Say
IRN Playing Both Sides of Fence in AFG?
Opinion: Ditch the South, Focus on Kabul? - Afghan tragedy and farceWanna E-Mail the Taliban?Red Cross Disses Both Sides on Civvy Killings - ICRC Says Violence Spreading Across AFG - ICRC Statement
Lack of Training, Equipment Crank Up AFG Cop Casualties
12 Jun 07
RCD Trooper Killed in IED: CF Statement - Governor General's Statement - Prime Minister's Statement - Defence Minister's Statement - CanWest News - More - Canadian Press
QC Peaceniks Use Direct Mail to Discourage Vandoos from Going - More - more - more - Vandoos Pissed! - Is This Sedition? - Criminal Code of Canada Section 59- Army.ca Discussion - More
CAN Envoy Says He's Keeping Track of Detainees
CAN PM Hopes NLD Will Extend Mission - NLD Deciding in August - DEU Chancellor Wrestling with Mission, Too
Kajaki-area Elders Warned: Workers Won't Fix Dam Until Locals Stop Supporting Taliban
Women Wanting to Learn in S. AFG Need to be Brave
More "Survey Says": Most who Responded Want CAN to GTFO in 2009
Opinion: More Than Just Afghan Hearts & Minds Need to be Won - Adjusting to New Way of War
AQ Releases Video of Alleged Attack on Police Station in K'Har - ANP Still Weakest Link? - This Won't Help
Illegal Arms Driving Conflict in Helmand
Brit Lance Eyed for VC from Helmand Action
Taliban Surrendering in Herat?
UN Calls for End to Lawlessness in AFG
AFG Clerics Support Anti-polio Push
Business Booming for Cell Phone Company
11 Jun 07
CF On the Hunt - Getting Used to a Range of Answers to \"Where's the Taliban?\"
Racing to Develop Area Against Taliban Trying to Stop It
National Post Embed (Indirectly) Disses the Rear Echelon
Families Still Remembering the Fallen
Opinion: Liberal Option for AFG Mission Useful?
News Search Afghanistan 110646EDT Jun 07
Brit Guardsman Identified as Latest Killed in Helmand - Brit Embed Discusses What It's Like to Hear of the Fallen
AUS Help Build Police Checkpoint in Oruzgan
Finns Considering Taking Over RC-North??
IND Cdos Help Guard AFG Border
The Boys Prefer the Girl Next Door for Pinups - More
10 Jun 07
How AFG Has Changed Soldiers, and CF
Taliban attacks hinder development efforts
More Fracas over Detainee Complaints of Treatment
Opinion: Negotiating with Taliban No Option for CAN
News Search Afghanistan 101223 Jun 07
Sangin Changes Hands to Good Guys (Again) - Even Al Jazeera Says So
Nailed Peg Leg Taliban Boss Buried
BBC Reports Ex-Taliban Media Boss Defects
Helmand Fight Continues as Brit Fallen Evaced - More than 150 Bad Guys Nailed?
More on How Good Guys Fight the Fight, Win Hearts & Minds
Reliving C Coy, 1 PPCLI 2006 Punch-up at Seyyeden (Part 1)
"Johnny Rico" Writes Book on Year in AFG with USA Forces
Media Flips Out Over Brit Troops Getting Dexedrine
Brit Paras to Show Bits of the Fight Back Home
Karzai Survives Assassination Try
9 Jun 07
NATO Soldier Killed in South: Reuters - Voice of America - Associated Press - Bad Guys Getting Nailed, Too - CBC Online - Another Brit Killed - More
Taliban Claims to be in Control of Kajaki
Gagetown Funeral for MCPL Priede Tuesday
CF Helping Keep a Grip on PAK-AFG Border
Uneasy Peace Follows (Latest) Fight in Sangin - 82nd \"All Americans\" Drop By
Bits of the Fight in K'Har, Zabul
(More) Trouble Brewing on AFG-IRN Border
What Calgary Student in Jail in AFG May Have Been Up To
CF Accused of Leaving K'Har Kops in Lurch?
CAN For Min: Six (Unproven) Allegations of Abuse on the Table - More - more
"Taliban Jack" Layton makes AFG his Mission
News search "Afghanistan" 091100EDT Jun 07
Brit Fmr COS of RC-South Gets CAN Gong
Troops Get Timmy's Certificates
Fmr Sailor Motorcycles Around World in Memory of Fallen FOO
USMC Call Sign \"Hadji\" Returns from Gunship Duty in AFG
Video of CAN, DNK Troops in South
Opinion: AFG Fight will Continue (Even if USA GTFO's IRQ) - "The troops who make this crime happen can be viewed with a certain sympathy, but they should never be supported in any way."
Part 2 of How Taliban Winning Hearts, Minds - Burka Still Not History Yet
Sarkozy: FRA to Stay in AFG - Bulgarian Troops to Guard KAF
Brit Squaddie Survives Groin Shot - Another Squaddie's Courage - In Line for Medal?
Swiss Peace Foundation Two-Page Security Update on AFG (.pdf)
8 Jun 07
NATO Spox: One Bad Guy is Facing About Eight Good Guys
Pembroke Students Send Bookmarks to Show They Remember
CAN Def Min Ain't Saying How Many Nabbed - More
NATO Sec Gen: Everyone to Be Careful About Civvy Deaths
Again With the "Tightening the ATIP Rules" Story?
CAN Politicos Always Visiting the Same School in Country
Who Should Be Nominated for Defence Reporting Award?
Opinion: Buck Shoulda Stopped with Def Min on Funeral Expenses Issue - The Winnable War
How the Good Guys Win Hearts & Minds - More - How Taliban is Trying (Part 1) - How Taliban "Sells" Not Having Kids, Adults Immunized
UK MoD Names Latest Fallen Squaddie
Pressure Climbing to Spray Poppy Fields - AFG Official: Security Needed Before Drug Problem Solvable
One Reporter's Embed Experience - Another Embed with Brits in Helmand
Why Too Many Refugees, Too Quickly, Cause Problems - Dilemma of Second-generation Afghans in PAK - Full Report (.pdf), 70 pg.)
News Search "Afghanistan " 080728 Jun 07
7 Jun 07
CF Facing Non-Stop Learning Curve with Taliban - CAN Taking Taliban Down a Notch or Two
CF Chinooks Won't be in Place Until After 2009
Survey Says Cdns Not Convinced of Success Prospects- Here's the REST of the Survey Results
No, This is NOT A Polish Joke!
Ministers: Prisoner Transfers By the Book - Corrections Canada Reps Learn of More Abuse Claims in K'Har - More - more
One CF Soldier's View of Why We're in AFG
Brit Killed in Helmand - UK MoD Statement
Blogger on Perceptions of UK Morale in Helmand
Firmer Proof IRN Gov't Behind EFP's in AFG
Opinion: "Afghanistan is the new Africa"
Aid Workers Say Bloodshed Spreading
AQ Says Revenge will Come for Nailing Peg Leg Taliban Boss - Meanwhile, Peg Leg's Body Returned to Family
Helmand Hospital ER Boss Linked to Taliban?
AFG Official Talks About Taliban, Insurgency
DEU Def Min: DEU Wd=Taliban Success - Predicts Approval to Stay a While Longer - More on More DNK Troops Heading Over
One Blogger's Assessment of Green Berets In AFG
AFG Rights Group: Poverty+Ignorance=Child Sex Abuse
News search "Afghanistan" 070815EDT Jun 07 (.pdf)
6 Jun 07
AFG Media Says NATO Troops Injured in S. Kandahar - Heating Up in N. Kandahar
CAN Funds "Uplift Projects" in Kandahar Province - AFG Gov't Statement
Opinion: Single Fallen Soldiers Not Forgotten
CAN (and Other) Money Earmarked for Drug Fight Still in the Bank - Counter Narcotics Trust Fund Opening Day, October 2005
ISAF Boss Says More Pressure Keeping Taliban on Run - Briefing Transcript - More - more - more - Gettin' Worse for Taliban - More on Fmr Cdr RC-South Saying Taliban in Poor Shape - More on Latest Nabbed Taliban Boss
New CAN Liberal Position: We Could Stay Past 2009 (But Not Fighting)
Brit Sappers Launch Mine Awareness Campaign - Brits Also Help Sangin Area Farmers
CHN Feeding Wpns (Including SAMs) to Taliban
CENTCOM Highlights AUS Contribution in SW Asia
Red Cross Asked to Take Over Hospital in Helmand
Officer Relives A Coy 1 RCR August 2005 Punch-up in Panjwai
Nat'l Post Embed: From Fruit Grower, to Muj, to Warlord
Now, Karzai People Deny Deal to Trade Dadullah Body for Hostages - Public Health Ministry Said He Did - Really, He Did
More on New Taliban Boss in South - Reportedly Received Condolence Letter from Osama
US Report: Grain Prices in K'Har About Same as or Lower Than Last Year (.pdf)
Afghanistan news search 060737EDT Jun 07
5 Jun 07
CF Photographers Shoot One of Their Own Returning Home - Lining the 401 for Motorcade - Columnist States Obvious: Chinooks Don't Save Lives
Maybe Time for Network of Nat'l Military Cemeteries?
Pentagon Releases Names of USA Fallen in Chinook Crash
CF Not Releasing Numbers of Prisoners CF Handed to AFG
Taliban Burn Down CF Clinic Building, Kill Regional Boss after Visit? (paragraph 5)
Now, CENTCOM Says It Wasn't Them Bombing Sangin on 31 May 07 - ISAF's Denial - Then Whose F-15's Dropped "GBU-38s on an underground complex in Sangin"? - They Appeared Busy Over Sangin 30 May As Well
Expert Says Denying Death Benefit to Single Soldiers Unconstitutional - Vet Aff Min: Death Benefit Not Likely to Change
NATO Says "No, Thanks" to Taliban Offer to Investigate Civvy Deaths
Second Serial of "Taliban Water Ops 101" Course Fails En Masse
Opinion: Buying the Poppies Not the Answer
CF Member in K'Har Gets to See Wife, Newborn Daughter via Teleconference Link
Link Between AFG Campaign, Increased CF Recruiting?
DEU Def Min: Not Close to an End Yet to Int'l Support for AFG
May be Too Late for Nabbed AFG Doctor after Karzai Agrees to Release Dadullah's Body - More
Ban on Prince Harry in AFG Possible
Karzai Calls IRN "Close Friend" (In Spite of Reports of IRN Wpns in Country)
Latest Britist Aid Group Report, May 2007 (.pdf)
Afghanistan news search 0501713EDT Jun 07
4 Jun 07
MCPL Priede Arrives Home Today - CF Advisory
Seeing AFG Through More Than Just the Gun Sight
Pushes On Against Taliban - CNN: Panjwai Bad Guy Boss Nabbed
AFG Development Min Wants CAN to Stay, Finish the Job
Shift in USA Armoured Vehicles Pushed CAN to Buy Their Own
Opinion: Supporting Senlis' Call for More Developmenti in AFG - Time to Listen to the Critics - National Post: Time to Buy AFG's Poppies - Troops Not Getting Enough Support - Comments misleading about Afghan war
Vet Aff Min: No Death Benefit to Parents of Fallen
Taliban Threatens to Behead Doc, Nurses If Peg-Leg Mullah Body Not Returned - AFG Pres Agrees to Trade
Arms Coming from IRN - Can't Tell if Tehran Behind IRN Arms, Though - More - more
Taliban Warns Civvies to Stay Away from Foreign Troops - Taliban Eyeing Foreign Interest Hits?
Workin' on Small Biz in AFG (.pdf)
AFG Army Needs More Help from PAK
3 Jun 07
Wounded Honoured as they Ache to Get Back into the Fight
Cpl. Christopher Deliva, Killed in Wainwright, Laid to Rest
Reporter Talks "Then and Now" Walking Tour of Kabul
Opinion - Ottawa Must Be Flex on Funeral
Lotsa Clashin' in South - More - Still Worries About Being Out at Night in K'Har - Taliban Spreading Rumours of Coming Push
Who's the "Bad Guy" in Perception War? - Author Explores Memorial Cross Mothers Through History
Blog Entry: AFG Campaign Haiku
Here We Go Again with the "Civvy Cas" Reports - ISAF: No NATO Airstrikes in Sangin 31 May-1 Jun - Must Be CENTCOM's, Then
Three Kids Die in Helmand from Explosive Device
AFG Not Safe Enough for Prince Harry - Still, Reports of Harry in Suffield Preparing for Coming AFG ROTO - Confirmed? - Calls to Play on Medicine Hat Rugby Team
Powerful Iraq-style Bombs Alarm AFG Military - More - EFP's: High Tech Explanation - Wikipedia - Globalsecurity.org
Taliban Not Invited to Tribal Elders' Meeting
Pentagon Sees PAK Military as "chief bulwark" for Stability
News search "Afghanistan" 030915EDT Jun 07
2 Jun 07
MCPL Priede On His Way Home - More - Priede Died with "Friendly rival" in Crash - 'Everyone was crying in our shop today'- US CENTCOM Statement - Atlantic Canada Feeling the Loss - More on Fallen Brit Colleague - News search "Priede", 020805EDT Jun 07 (.pdf, 56 pg.) - Associated Press Quotes USA Officials Saying RPG Hit Chinook
CAN For Min Says Broader Int’l Effort Needed
More on Dinnings' Family Reimbursement
Opinion: Families of soldiers deserve better - Support the troops - The Torch: UK vs CAN Media Coverage of AFG Fight - Toronto Star Columnist Tries Peeling the Onion that is the AFG Mission
Brit Embed Shares Scenes of the Fight in Helmand
Sangin Catches Some CENTCOM Fast Air Attention This Week - More
CAN Cousins Meet in AFG after 14 Years Apart
New Taliban Boss Promises "Liberation" - "Taliban Water Safety Training Needs Work", or "Taliban Marines Suck" - More
Pentagon Boss Seeks Asian Help in AFG
"Everyone’s a Winner at Helmand’s Opium Bazaars" - AFG Cranks Up Poppy Eradication
1 Jun 07
More on MCPL Priede: Chopper Had Just Dropped Off 40 Troops in Air Aslt Before Crashing - In Hot Zone, Indeed - National Post - More - Toronto Star: He Was Born in Burlington - Ham'n Spectator
Some of His Last Still Shots on Duty - Mom: Wanted to Show the Good in AFG Through Pictures - Considered Best in Field - Globe & Mail Reporter Remembers Help from Priede - More
Brit Red Cap Killed in Crash Identified
ISAF: The Job Continues in Spite of the Crash - And We're Succeeding, Too - UK MoD Video
Whose Job is REALLY Safe in AFG? - CAN NATO Boss: Shootdown of Chinook Not New Tactic - Taliban Takes the Credit - More - Crash Site Secured - More - News Search "Priede" 010702EDT Jun 07 (100pg .pdf)
Statement From Commander in Chief - Statement from Def Min - Statement From NDP Leader
PAK Int Accused of Providing SAM Parts to Taliban? - Taliban Claim "New Weapons"
More on CPL McCully: Started in Military in High School Reserve Co-op Program
Toronto Star Map of Where All the Fallen Came From
Doing the Right Thing for Fallen Becomes Partisan Political Theatre - Liberals: "O’Connor Must Resign" - Dinning Family to be Reimbursed - More - more
Letter: Why is Timmy's Not Letting Drones Wear Red on Fridays (But Letting Them Wear Team Jerseys)?
CAN NATO Boss: NATO Planning to Replace CAN Troops in South After 2009 - NATO Job Will Continue Past 2009, With or Without CAN Troops
Opinion: Serious Taliban Needs to be Kicked Before Considering Negotiating with Them - How NOT to Win the War
NATO Says Taliban Unable To Mount Spring Offensive - More - Campaign Update, 10-31 May 07
Afghan Police Detain Taliban Commander
NATO Becoming Victim of High Expectations?
IRN Arming AFG Rebels to Piss Off USA?
Foreign Entrepreneurs Stick Around K'Har in Spite of Conditions