News
May 2007
Background Information
31 May 07
CF Confirms Imagery Tech Killed in Chinook Crash - PM Statement - Army.ca Condolence Thread - Canadian Press - National Post - more - Latest ISAF Statement - More - more - Enemy Fire May Have Been to Blame - More- more - Initial ISAF Statement - Taliban Takes Credit - Google Map of Kajaki Dam Complex Area
Cpl McCully Laid to Rest in Orangeville - Photo
More on Gov't Looking at New Rules for Funeral Payments - More - more - more - more - more - Liberals Make Hay on Issue - Dinning Family: Three Letters to Ottawa Unanswered - The Letters
Opinion: Funeral expense increase no-brainer
Liberals Cry For Refocus of AFG Mission
CF Spec Ops Troops Recieve Medals, Mentions in Dispatches for AFG Work - More
CIDA Workers on the Ground Say They Are Making Progress - CAN Support for Feeding Hungry
AFG Group Publishing "K'Har 101" to Help Troops Understand Area Politics
Pentagon: Taliban on the Defensive - Transcript of 30 May 07 Briefing
Whooping Cough Outbreak in Panjwai
Wanna Call or E-Mail the Taliban?
Karzai Rejects Taliban Call for Inquiry into Civvy Deaths
AFG Amnesty=Invite to More War Crimes?
30 May 07
CDS, Def Min: We'll "do what has to be done" for Funerals of Fallen - More - More
More on Minister Defending CIDA's Work in AFG
One Family Not Buying Def Min's Statement on Funeral Coverage- Defence Minister's Statement - Minister's Answers in the House of Commons
Van Doo Killed in Accident During Next ROTO Workup in Wainwright
Injured Ex-soldier Finds Bureaucracy Frustrating
Soldier Saluted for AFG Svc
Radio "Thank You" Messages for Red Friday
NDP Disses Bloc for Supporting AFG Msn Past 2009
Fmr ISAF RC South Boss: Taliban Not Able to Hold Lotsa Ground - Washington Post Login if needed - Taliban Learning PR Tricks from AQ
DEU Says AFG, PAK Should Work Together to Beat Taliban
Opinion - Losing the ‘other war’ in Afghanistan? -Blogger Calls Taliban on Claim of Winning the Fight to DateKiwi Troops Return Artefacts - AUS SAS Good to Go
Allies Disagree Over Poppy Spraying
World Bank Provides US$133.8 Million in Grant Support to Afghanistan
EU Sees AFG Police Trainers Covering Hotspots
UN Keeping a Closer Eye on Civvy Deaths - More - more - Taliban Shows Huge Balls Asking for Inquiry into Civvy Deaths
Taliban, NATO Tied in AFG Fight?!?
Prince Harry Could Go to AFG
29 May 07
Cpl. McCully is Home - More - Bridges Lined in Honour of Fallen along Hearse Route
Def Min Says Funeral Expenses ARE Fully Covered - More - Opinion: Fairness for the Fallen - We Owe it To Them
Senlis Think Tank Attacks CIDA Approach in AFG - More - more - more - Blogger Agrees - CIDA Minister Disagrees (Big Time)
Paper-"Canada in Afghanistan: Charting a New Course..." - News Release
Think Tank Survey Shows Most Think Taliban'll Win
Brit Political Scientist: It'll Take a Generation to Sort Things Out
How the Troops Stay Connected to Home (Electronically)
DEU Will Have to Push Taliban Outta Kunduz After All
USAF: We Double-Triple Check Potential Collateral Damage Before Bombing
ANP, Coalition Forces Nail Bad Boys in Helmand - More - What Timmy Taliban is SayingDesperate Taliban Changes Strategy?K'har Hospital Needs Lotsa HelpAnother Royal Anglian from UK Killed in Helmand - More
DEU Drops Probe into Alleged Prisoner Abuse
Time with 1/508, 82nd Abn in S. AFG
Opinion: PM needs to support Afghan self-sufficiency - Sun Tzu, Step Aside! Jack Layton, Master Of Strategy....AFG Army Wants NATO Std Eqpt
News Search "Afghanistan" 290738EDT May 07
28 May 07
Cpl. McCully's Colleagues Soldier On (But Not Easily) - Friends Learn to Cope - McCully 'Excited' to Fight Taliban
All About "Blood Road" in K'Har
Opinion: Negotiating a Peace in Afghanistan - Soldiers fight while civilians fret - Injustice of Not Reimbursing Families for Funerals
Paving the Wat for AUS SAS in Uruzgan
UN. Urges ISAF, Taliban to Avoid Civvy Deaths - USAF Says They're Killing Taliban, Not Civvies
Taliban Still (Seems to) Own the Night
Six AFG Cops Die in Blast
More on UK Wanting UN to Take Larger Role - UNAMA Mandate Extended until March 2008
27 May 07
Latest on Cpl. McCully's Death
More on Ramp Ceremony - Statement from the Family - McCully 'Gung-Ho' for Msn - News Search "McCully" 27 May 07
Def Min: Looking for Ways to Keep Injured Troops in Uniform
OP Hoover Snapshot, via Embed with India Coy
PM to Push NATO for More Help - NDP Calls for New Approach (Again) - Opinion: AFG Will Shape PM's Image - Goals Unrealistic?
How Brit SBS, USA SIGINT Helped Nail Dadullah After Tailing His Brother - Bit More on TF Orange - Why You Gotta Be Careful with your Sat Phone
Taliban Claims New Push Against Gov't, Foreign Forces - Taliban Looking Over Its Shoulder for Spies
More on CAN Reporters' Trip to AFG with PM - USA Embed in Bagram
Irony in a Haircut in K'Har
26 May 07
Latest on Cpl. McCully's Death
Ramp Ceremony in K'Har - More - Sister: McCully a "Role Model" - The Photo
Mourning the Loss of "A Good Kid" - Killed While Mentoring AFG Army - More - Mom Remembers - CF News Online - Canadian Press - CTV.ca - Associated Press - Reuters (UK) - Agence France Presse - More - Timeline of CAN's Fallen - ISAF Statement - Liberal Party Statement - NDP Statement - News Search "McCully" 260700EDT May 07 (.pdf)
OP Hoover Continues - Another Taliban Boss Nabbed
Fmr CAN NATO Boss Says Progress is Being Made
Calgary Highlanders Getting Ready to Go Downrange
CDS: Public Support of Military Vital to Mission - PM Backs the Troops at Calgary Fundraiser
How UAVs are Helping CF in AFG
Kunduz Wants DEU Troops - BAD!
More Condemnation of Attacks on Food Aid Convoys
K'Har Blast Leaves Four AFG Cops Dead - Four ANA Soldiers among Dozens of Taliban Nailed in South
AFGs Tell Brits to Smash Drug Trade - USA Planning to Destroy Poppies By Aerial Spraying - Still Some Talking to Do About Solutions with Kabul
Opinion: UK Wasted Big Aid $ in AFG
BBC Monitoring Service: Taliban's Back Broken; Gov't Popularity Dropping; MPs Blame IRN for Helping Taliban
News Search "Afghanistan" 260723EDT May 07
25 May 07
CF Soldier Killed by IED - More - CF Statement on Incident - CF Statement Identifying Soldier - Army.ca Information Thread - Army.ca Thoughts & Prayers Thread - More - more
Governor General's Statement on Cpl. McCully's Death - Prime Minister's Statement - Def Min Statement
OP Hoover: CAN, AFG Troops Start New Push - More - more
CDS: PM Visit Good Boost for Troop Morale
New AQ Boss in AFG?
Blogger: NATO Execution of AFG Mission "Like Failed Team Building Exercise"
This Guy Gets It - CF Soldier in AFG Needs Cdns to Do Right Thing
Medals for Returning CF Sappers, Tankers
Not Much Sympathy Among Bloggers for CAN Reporters Turfed from PM Trip - More
Afghans working with NATO face great personal risk
How NLD Approach is NOT Working in Oruzgan - More - DEU's Interpretation of Three Block War
UK Suggests UN Crank Up "Peace Building Plan"
WNG: HUGELY GRAPHIC PHOTOS ON NEXT SET OF LINKS!
Maybe the NDP Should Talk to THIS Kid! - More Proof of AQ's Kinder, Gentler Side - More
Alternative Explanation for Civvy Casualties - Along the Same Lines
Brits See More Afghans Standing Up to the Taliban
Gaguing the Impact of Taliban Homicide Bombings - Sitrep from the Bad Guy's Side, May 21-23, 2007 - More Taliban Disinformation - More on Taliban Not Doing So Well - Fighting Taliban @ The Grassroots - Talking to the "Father of the Taliban"
Refugee Camp in PAK as Warlord Support Base
"Narcotecture" Slide Show from W. AFG
Opinion: "Coalition of the Wilting" - More Whining - Too Early to Leave - Momentum Must Be Kept Up
A Tale of Two Afghanistans
USA Mil Bosses Say Local Leaders Critical to Success
News search "Afghanistan", 250653EDT May 07
24 May 07
PM Outside the Wire - More - CF Getting Ready if Needed Past 2009 - More - No Deadline - More
Highlights of CAN Contributions - Highlights of Progress in AFG - PRT Backgrounder
PMO Touchy About Media Coverage of PM Visit? - Media Sharing the Message - Some Critiquing the Message - More - Critique of Liberal Party Critique of Visit
Reminding Everyone That This ISN'T Peacekeeping
Injured Troops to Gather in Ottawa to Swap Best Practices
Oil Shipments to Foreign Forces Stalled?
AFG, PAK to Talk Next Week @ G8 Meeting
Brit Royal Anglian in Sangin Dies Cleaning Wpn
Opinion: Why CAN Should Stick Around - Taliban Offensive Stall=NATO Turning the Corner? - More
No POL Tanks Expected in Theatre - DEU Def Min Offers Advice to USA Forces???
New Taliban Bosses Say Holy War, Suicide Bombings to Continue - At Least When They're Not Ducking Fast Air, Anyway - ISAF Statement - I Can See Why Nobody Wants to Clearly Step Forward
Now PAK Pres Suggests Talks with Taliban - More
AFG Opium Crop Up - More Calls for West to Buy Opium Crop
News Search "Afghanistan", 24 May 07
23 May 07
CAN Mil Boss Doesn't See Taliban Spring Offensive - USA Expert Says AFG's Going Well - Report: "Uncertain Metrics for Afghanistan (and Iraq)" - On the Other Hand....
CAN PM Defends Mission - More - more - more - Speech to the Troops (MS Word) - PM Visits FOB - AFG PM: No Prisoner Abuse Here - Karzai Says Don't Abandon AFG - Visit Also to Stiffen AFG Pres Pos'n - View from the Media Pool - More - Leftie Blog Rags on CAN Officer's Comment - More - Some Bloggers Unhappy with Media Coverage
Playing Politics: Liberals Accuse PM of Hiding in K'Har - Liberal Party of Canada Statement - More - more
Elementary School Teachers Look for Family Help Solutions in Petawawa
AQ 2 i/c Eulogizes Nailed Peg Leg Taliban Boss - Taliban 'Lacking Commanders' - USAWants More Taliban on UN List
FIN Soldier Killed in IED Blast - NOR Troops Injured
ITA Shies Away from Combat Role
More on Other European Nations Having to Pull Harder
"Pushing Anti-AFG Campaign" 101
Opinion: Refocus CAN Mission - DEU as NATO's Weak Link in AFG
Brit Marine Uploads Helmet Cam Footage from AFG - Taliban Training Video Highlights
Pentagon, State Dept Wrestling Over Nation Building
New USA Law Helps Translators in AFG GTFO If Needed
22 May 07
CAN PM Makes Surprise Visit to AFG - More - more - more - Focus on Development, Not Military
PRT Able to Do More Development Work - USA Troops Donate Tractor to K'Har Farmers
More on "Survey Says Talk to the Taliban" - Talking to Taliban "Begging to Get Suckered Again" - How Negotiations Between Taliban, Trudeau Boys Might Go - More
AQ Nailing Anti-Taliban Spies? - Taliban Using IRN Missiles on UK Tps
Bush Calls (Again) for Mo' NATO Troops in Afghanistan - More - Transcript of Media Availability - More on NATO, USA on Taliban Human Shields
AFG Ambassador to USA on Development, Drugs, Pakistan & Future
Gotta Get the Drug Profit to Keep It Away from Taliban - More
UN Calls for Stop to Attacks on Food Aid Convoys
Foundation Laid for Helmand Seminary
21 May 07
CAN Talking to AFG About Handing Over Leopards
Taliban Talking Up CAN Guns as Dragons
CF Winning Hearts & Minds "One step at a time, one village at a time" - Stability in At Least One Area
Polio Vaccination Campaign in K'Har
Winnipeg Cameron Injured in Shilo Shooting Accident
CTV/Globe & Mail Poll Shows 2/3 Cdns Surveyed Want Talks with Taliban? - Army.ca Discussion - More on Decisions by Poll
Opinion: Prisoner Fracas More About CAN Politics than Human Rights
Dubya: NATO 'must share Afghan burden'
Embedded with the FOOs - Reporter's View of Shura Duty
Taliban Nailed with Fast Air in South - More - ISAF Statement
NATO, USA Reconsidering Harder Push Against Drugs in AFG - Trade, Wages Good in South AFG - CAN, GBR Have to Squeeze PAK Harder on Terrs
USA Blames Civvy Deaths on Taliban - NATO Boss Still Discussing AFG with Dubya in TX
USA Paying PAK to Fight Terr (But No Patrols?) - More
UK Anglian Regiment Troop Killed in Accident - More - ISAF Statement
POL Troops Good to Go Soon - More - Latest DEU Deaths, Injuries Could Affect Domestic Support for Mission - DEU Aid Group GTFO'ing - German party calls for Afghan pullout
Taliban Worried About Spies - Taliban Extortion Phone Calls
Opinion: Who's Winning? - Legalizing Production Would Make AFG "a narco-welfare state" - The Case for Legalizing Production
Slide Show - USA SF Helping Push Taliban Outta Helmand
Clippings, Afghanistan, 21 May 07
20 May 07
CF Soldier Shot in Shilo Prepping for Next ROTO - More
Here's Why CAN is in AFG
Silence On Fate of CAN Detainee AFG
New push for talks with Taliban
One Taliban Boss in PAK Nabbed... - ...and Another Turned - Warlord Who Came in From the Cold
Opinion: Taliban's in Trouble with Recent Nailings - More on Dadullah's Death
100 Taliban Nailed in Recent AFG Clashes
NLD Asks DEU for Development Help in Uruzgan - DEU Forces Will Stay in AFG
Bush, NATO Chief Looking for Boost to AFG Mission
Prince Harry Headed to AFG?
Opinion: Afghanistan in black and white
Fmr Soviet Soldier in CAN Talks About AFG
ISAF, UNAMA Officials Discuss Counter-insurgency Push
19 May 07
Ambush on CF in Sangin
CAN CDS Chats Up PAK CDS in Ottawa
Family of Cpl. Poland Start Fund for Education of Kids of Fallen, Seriously Injured
CENTCOM Says They Weren't in K'Har When Civvies Allegedly Shot - What MSM is Reporting - More
NATO Reviewing Tactics - More
USA Envoy Thanks Gagetown Crowd for CAN's Work in AFG
CAN UN Rep Learning from USA 10 Mtn Div TF Spartan - 82nd "All Americans" Hold Shura in Helmand
More on CF Training Up AFG Army - Scott Taylor Talks to Some Who Rate Taliban Pretty Highly
Quebec Peaceniks Piping Up Early About Vandoos Going Over
CBC Feature by AFG Exile at Arms Show, Selling the "Less Arms, More Love" Approach - Transcript
Opinion: How CAN Gov't is Dropping the Messaging Ball
Blog: "Losing the war in the media battle space"
Portuguese Troops Form QRT At K'Har
Taliban Takes Credit for VBIED in K'Har
Elders Help Finger Taliban for Arrest
More on Taliban Stumpy Getting Nailed - Dadullah's Deadly Legacy - Dead Taleban Chieftain Had “Heart of Stone” - Panic in Taliban Ranks? - Taliban claim killing two 'spies'
Four Civvies Nicked by ISAF Arty - Karzai: AFG Working to End Civvy Cas
K'Har Prison Blues
USA Envoy: World Success Linked to AFG Success
DNK Says They're Staying in AFG
AFG Attack Kills USA SF'er in Southeast - USA DOD Statement - Bomb Kills 3 Germans in North - More
18 May 07
Guy Who (Allegedly) Ratted Out Dadullah Hid His Artificial Leg During Attack - More - more
Karzai Invites Mullah Omar to Talks
Cost of New CF Leopards Could be Higher than Planned - More
AFG "Journalist" Living in CAN Says CF Doesn't Need New Eqpt? - Army.ca Discussion
Vandoos Prep for Next ROTO in Wainwright - Reservists Vying for Following ROTO Headed to Shilo
Note to Taliban: Be Careful About Media Appearances of Possible Future Leaders....
Road to Kandahar Just Too Dangerous - Sperwan Gar Bug Fights for Distraction
"Picking the Killers from the Kids" in AFG
Brits Ready with Honkin' QRT at KAF - What the Aussies are Up To - And What More They're Sending
How We Can Lose the Info Battle (Thanks to The Torch for this one!)
More on Needed Development Surge
AFG Cabinet Minister Nicked in K'Har Car Bombing - More
Some Taliban Changing Sides - Taliban Diversion in North - Taliban Says They're Growing - Focusing on Urban Attacks
USMC Commandant Pissed with US Army Apology for Civvy Deaths
Opinion: Do Amherst residents care about Afghanistan? - On Negotiating with War Criminals - On Peace Talks and Civvy Casualties
Ottawa Shanigans: What Happened with the Report?
17 May 07
IEDs in South Kill Up to 10, Including AFG Cops - More - more - Taliban Claims Responsibility
K'Har Police Chief Says NATO Troops Shot, Wounded Five Civvies?
Opinion: Time for a 'Development Surge' - Karzai could do PM a favour and boot us out - Why Didn't CAN Do Same for Detainees Headed to USA Hands?
How Big is Taliban Setback? - Lotsa Succession Issues This Week in Taliban Country - "One Butcher's Death Will Not Break the Taliban"
USA Defends Fast Air Strike in Shindand - More
Locals Turn on Taliban as Civvies Killed in Strikes
Brits, Helmand Bosses Hold Jirga - Brit Military Press Coverage
ISAF Statement on PAK-AFG Border Shooting
Former Gitmo Guests Back in the Fight in AFG - More
16 May 07
NATO Wants Mo' Access to AFG Int
How Are PRT's Doing?
Opinion: Up to AFG to Decide Strategy, CAN to Back It
More on CAN Taking Lead on Training AFG Army - New AFG Forces Making Headway - SBut More Still Needs to be Done
Wall Street Journal-ists Discuss CAN Liberals' Approach to AFG - Transcript
ISAF: What Air Strikes Near K'Har? - Is K'Har Police Boss Making it Up??? - More
Taliban Chief: Mullah Bakht To Replace Dadullah- NATO Bracing for Taliban Revenge? -
Lotsa Other Taliban Bosses Nailed with Dadullah - Including Terrs Traded for ITA Journalist! -
Better Killing Through Better Int - Dadullah Buried in Secret - Ex-Taliban Trio Pick Up Remains -
- Taliban's Leadership Void - Setback for Neo Taliban - Taliban Resurgence Expected
ITA Sending Mo' Troops - Choppers & IFV's, Too - But Not Changing Mission
Editorial: NATO's Gonna Have to Face PAK Sooner or Later -
Figuring out how to placate Afghanistan - Why is CAN Involved in Civil War? -
Fmr Liberal MP Pipes Up with Solutions -
"Harper still imitates Bush's cut-and-run, support-the-troops rhetoric" - Let's talk peace with the Taliban
Bomb Killing 25 at PAK Hotel Linked to Dadullah Nailing - PAK Officials: No It Wasn't
NATO Not Hunting Bin Laden
Readers Respond to DEU Dissing USA on Tactics - Rift Over Tactics Continues
Hekmatyar: I'm Not Linked to PAK Int
AFG news search, 160725EDT May 07 (.pdf)
15 May 07
CAN Takes Over Training AFG Army
Fmr CAN PRT Cdr: Progress is Being Made
Cdn Nursing Ass'n Honours NF Nurse in AFG
Fmr Regional Command South Cdr: We Brought the Wrong Helicopters for the Environment
Taliban Nailed by Fast Air
Taliban Planning Attacks in USA, UK - 'We will destroy their cities as they have destroyed ours'
More on Dadullah's Nailing: Taliban Formally Confirm Killing - May Be Setback - More - Taliban Leader Says Attacks Will Continue - USA Envoy: Good News - STRATFOR: Examing Dadullah's Death - Taliban Names Brother as Replacement - More - Other Brother Released Recently in Prisoner Exchange - Death Linked to Closer PAK-AFG Cooperation - Taliban Boss Vows Revenge - Dadullah Buried in AFG
USA, PAK Troops Killed in AFG-PAK Border Shootout - More on Shootout - Signs of AFG-PAK Friction - More - Musharraf's Troubles- PAK Rejects AFG Allegations - Investigations Already Underway - UAVs are Out Hunting Already
Opinion: War supporters are losing their battle
'You are going forever to paradise': How to sign up a suicide bomber
National Post's Tom Blackwell in AFG
Power Struggle in Afghanistan - More
DEU Wants USA to Review Tactics Following Civvy Deaths
14 May 07
AFG Interpreter Killed in Rocket Attack at CF FOB - CF Expresses Condolences to Family
ISAF Confirms Taliban Big Boy Nailed - Luck Runs Out for Talib Boss - Who & What Next? - `Beast' Gets Final Close-up - Blogger Roundup & Analysis - More - more - Taliban Scrambling? - Maybe Not - Good Career Move for Big Boy?
CAN Deploys GPS Arty Shell To AFG
AFG Media Version of "CAN National Nabbed as Terr" Story - Had bigger Plans?
Opinion: Afghan warlords can’t be ignored - Afghanistan under the microscope - War supporters are losing their battle - Does NATO Win in the End?
Ottawa-Buffalo Game, at 0330 AFG Time
One of the Non-Physical Cas Post AFG Tour
Brits Fighting a "Subtler" War
EU defense ministers set to launch Afghan police mission
Hekmatyar Says Bin Laden is Alive
Helping Students in the K'Har Area
New Taliban Office in Waziristan
13 May 07
Taliban Top Boss Nailed in Helmand: UPI (USA) - Telegraph (UK) - Reuters (UK) - Associated Press - Voice of America - New York Times - Euronews - Al Jazeera - AFP - CTV.ca - BBC - DPA - Afgha.com - Radio Free AFG - Army.ca Discussion - Make That FORMER Mastermind... - ...and FORMER Star
Field Promotion, Then Back Out on Patrol - What the Nurses are Doing - One Embedded Reporter's "What's it Like" Story
Canada stays out of Afghan opium poppy harvest
Journalists Covering Journalists: More on Brother of Nabbed CAN Boy in Kabul - Detainee in Kabul spoke of jihad - AFG Official: Taliban Pushed Outta Area Near Sangin
Long Write for "They Like Taliban Better then NATO"
IED Nails Eight AFG Cops -Dozens of Taliban killed in Afghan south-official
NLD Int Report: Not Calming Down in Uruzgan as Quickly as Hope
Karzai Says Afghanistan Is 'Not a Narco State' - Helmand poppy fields - a magnet for jobless youths
Another AFG Minister Dumped Over Refugee Fracas
News Search, Afghanistan, 13 May 07
12 May 07
PM: Heroes Shortchanged by Opposition - Detainee Issue Overshadowing Heroics - PM Statement in Petawawa - Meanwhile, Liberals Accuse PM of Using CF as "Political Prop"
AFG, Fast Air Nails More Taliban in South - More
More on CAN Citizen Detained by Kabul - More - We Have a Name - CanWest Clippings (.pdf) - Alberta Imam Figures He Met Chap Held in Kabul - Brother May Have Blown Himself Up Earlier in the Year?
Tory MP Opposes GTFO Deadline for AFG
Anarchists Criminals Paint-Bomb Armory in Guelph
AFG Officials Let Reporters into Detainee Facility - Printable Article - More
Opinion: "From the anarchy of Kabul to the martial wonderland of KAF" - What One Letter Writer Thinks About Opponents of the Fight - Caught in the crossfire - Suicide terrorism isn't 'progressive' politics - The Afghan difference - What sets Afghanistan apart - Hooked on Opium in K'Har
USA, AFG Forces Investigating Civvy Deaths - AFG's Still Pissed - Karzai Meets with Kin
Talk-Talk Replacing Bang-Bang in Dealing with Taliban - Helmand Gov Offers Taliban Olive Branch?
11 May 07
CAN Citizen Nabbed in Kabul - Alleged to Have Trained in PAK - More - more
CF Troops Face-to-Facing with Farmers, Villagers
Locals Nail Taliban in South
CF Troops Pissed at Focus on Detainees
Tories Blocking AFG Prisoner Probe? - More - Rights Group Lawyer Pissed - Survey Says: Responders Not Happy with Handling of Detainees - More - CF Accused of " 'abusing' national security laws"
NATO Bosses: Training Support for AFG Army Key - More - Connie Rice: "Reconstruction Opportunity Zones" ‘Best Weapon’ Against AQ, Taliban
CF Recruiting Centre Vandalized over AFG War
Opinion: "Do we remember why our troops are in Afghanistan?" - "Afghan furor shows we're slipping into U.S. orbit"
AFG Minister Sacked Over IRN Refugee Fracas - Why is IRN Kickin' 'Em Out Like Crazy? - Meanwhile, IRN Denies Claims of Helping Taliban
U.S. military confirms Afghan civilian casualties - More - CENTCOM Statement
Face of the New Taliban in Waziristan
Afghanistan’s Drug Trade and How it Funds Taliban Operations - AFG's OTHER Smuggled Plant Product
UN Cranking Up Security After Killing of Staffer
10 May 07
CAN Troops Expecting No Civvy Backlash from Reports of AFG Cas - 'The people who bombed us are bad guys' - Locals Pissed - ISAF Says No Air Strikes Killing Civvies Lately - More
More on Calls for NATO Not to Shoot First - More
CAN Troops Making a Difference in K'Har
Timetables 'don't help': CAN Urged to Stick It Out
Fmr Taliban Ambassador: CAN One of the Bad Guys
CF Nurses Getting Goodies During National Nursing Week
Opinion: At the breaking point in Afghanistan - Canada's military theatrics are appalling - The human cost of war in Afghanistan - Why no outcry from NGOs against IEDs? - On war, a little diplomacy couldn't hurt
Liberals: Conservatives Continue to Mismanage AFG Msn - Say Precedent Set for Troop GTFO
Taliban Targetting Cell Towers to Keep SIGINT Secret - These Guys Better Be Careful, Then
AFG Def Min: Give Me Six Months, and 10K Troops, and We'll Roll 'Em All Up
Coalition Death Toll, as of 10 May 07
Revived Taliban Restrict AFG Aid - 
NLD Aid Used by Taliban
Spring Offensive Timeline: 19 Apr - 8 MayAFG Truckers Want Taliban Back?Fmr NLD Def Min: AFG could be ’endless mission’
News Search, Afghanistan, 10 May 07
9 May 07
Leopards 'n LAVs Kicking Butt - More - more - more
More on CAN Troops Eyeing AFG-PAK Border
Scarborough Students Inspired by One of the Injured
USA Think Tank Reps Say GTFO Date Won't Help Things
AFG Senate Backs Direct Talks with Taleban - More - more - Wants NATO to Stop Shooting First?!?
Liberal MP Pushing to Have Mail To, From Troops in AFG Free of Charge
Opinion: "Afghanistan is no place for Canada" - "PM faces challenges with new prisoner deal"
More on Taliban Enlisting the Handicapped for Suicide Attacks
Taliban Getting Nailed in Helmand - NATO Fast Air Nails 21 in South
UN Panel Proposes Harsher Sanctions on Taliban, AQ - Report (.pdf)
PAK PM says Reconstruction Key to Peace - PAK, NATO Pledge New Anti-Taleban Push - NATO Boss: Force 'cannot solve Afghanistan' - Mo' PAK Troops to Border
More on "One Step at a Time" Approach
Bad Guys Processing Opium to Boost Drug Profits
Local Driver Nicked in Explosion in S.AFG - More of the Same, East of K'Har City
UN Statement on UN Driver Killed Tuesday - More
What the USAF's Been Up To, As of 7 May 07
US Mil Apologizes for AFG Civvy Deaths - "Apology, payment part of winning"
8 May 07
More on Buffalos, Cougars Headed to AFG - CF Statement (About a Week After the Company's Statement)
CF Sappers Blow IED; No Cas
Weapons being smuggled from north to south: Official
Living with an Eerie Silence - An Enemy That Bites
More on CF Settling In at Spin Boldak - NATO Paces Self in AFG Offensive
Educated Class Being Driven Out of AFG
Opposition Accuses Tories of "Covering Up" AFG Abuse - AFG Prisoner Rules Still Untested - CAN Liberals Never Satisfied
US Envoy Expresses Optimism about Afghanistan's Future
NATO Boss Discusses Taliban With PAK - More - more
UN Driver Shot Dead in S.AFG
7 May 07
CAN Patrol Attacked in Panjwaii, No Cas
You Read it Here First: CEFCOM Gets Vehicles - More
Scott Taylor: Nyala Story a Success
Still No Word on Pte. Robert Costall's Death - MILNEWS.ca Media Summary of Firefight (.pdf, updated 7 May 07)
Remembering Another of the Fallen
CF Gunners Arrive in Spin Boldak - Keeping an Eye Open for IEDs
When Does an Afghan Become a Detainee? - CAN "need not apologize for treatment of detainees"
Counsel for CF Soldier Charged with Manslaughter Says No Need for Charges
Opinion: Why CAN Should Stay - It's Winnable... - It's a Just War... - ...and a World War, To Boot
World Bank Official Sees 'Staggering' Changes - PRTs Accused of Spending Unequal Amounts on Development - AFG Gov't Questions Effect of Foreign Aid $
Afghan insurgency could continue for a long time: Hekmatyar - Taliban's New Weapon: Human Bombs - Taliban Recruiting the Disabled for Suicide Attacks
DEU Sending Troops South (Six, to be Precise) - TUR Donating Howitzers to ANA - Kuwait Helping Too (Morally, Anyway)
Taliban Smashing Cassette Players in Cars
Disfiguring skin disease plagues Afghanistan - "Visceral leishmaniasis in Afghanistan" - "Social Impact of Leishmaniasis, Afghanistan" | CDC EID
6 May 07
CF Clarifies Detainee Story - More - More - More
Latest Toronto Sun Poll: If Deaths Spike, We Should GTFO - Survey "A Loud Warning Shot" - AFG Mission Increasing Chances for Terror at Home - Canadians growing weary of war
Poppies and the Troops - More
Opinion: Why NATO misreads the Afghan rulebook
CF Statements: Australia, Canada Helping Build Peace and Stability in Afghanistan - Canada's New Government Applauds Increase in Bulgaria's Presence in Afghanistan
US admiral: Afghans to be given security responsibilities
De Niro Hangin' with the Taliban?
5 May 07
RCD's Dropping By Spin Boldak near PAK Border
More of the Same on Detainees - Journalists Covering Journalists on Detainees - Detainee Prison Must be Run by Afghans: Ambassador - The New Deal (.pdf) - What it Means - Are the Brit, NLD Deals Working At All?
FOB Cook's Story
What the Officer at the Receiving End of the Fallen Goes Through - Ancaster Ontario Reservist Returns
New COIN Training Centre Opens in AFG
Opinion: Scott Taylor - Is it really worth it? - Vendetta Journalism - Canada can't succeed
DEU Rejects Request to Send Instructors to S.AFG - ESP Says No Mo' Tps to AFG - JPN Considering Helping Out
Fmr AFG Fin Min Says AFG Needs Own Solutions
Civvy Killings Threaten AFG Future: Analysts
4 May 07
New CAN-AFG Prisoner Pact Signed - More - more - more - more- more - Court Action Grinds to a Halt? - The Old 28 Dec 05 Agreement - New Deal Quite an Improvement - Still, Amnesty Int'l Not Happy - Kabul Helped Close a New Deal - Some Abuse Already Being Reported Under Old System - Liberals (Who Signed Original Deal) Say Tories Should've Improved The Deal Earlier?!?!
Opinion: Responsibility doesn't end with the torturer - And torture doesn't end with monitoring - "The (new) pact on detainees"
Good News About Child, Maternal Death Rates in AFG
Gee, ANOTHER Story About Ball Hockey in K'Har (This Time, With NHL'ers)
AFG Army: "Thirsty to fight, hard to wake up"
Brit Shot Dead - ISAF Statement
Aussie Injured in Oruzgan - ADF Statement - ISAF Statement
NLD Tps Get CIBs from USA Tps in K'Har
AFG news search, 040745EDT May 07
3 May 07
Previous Liberal Gov't OK'ed Detainee Deal
CDS: Troops Pissed at Detainee Coverage - CDS Admits Detainee Deal Not Perfect - Still, Reportedly No Regrets - More
Report: CF Handles Different Detainees Differently
Does Message in House Match Court Documents? - Court Hearing Today (Thursday) - More - "When Context No Longer Matters" - "Beating: An Afghan Pastime" - AFG Gov't Looking Into It
Lord Stanley's Cup Boosts Morale
Classic Tension: Living Conditions for Teeth vs. Tail
Injured Reservist Wishes He Could be Back At 'Er - More - Remembering One of the Fallen by Helping Those Who Need It
Opinion: "Conservatives taking a bad rap over Afghan prisoner issue" - "Torture Scandal's Message" - "Another story that no one is talking about"
AFG Forces Getting Better (And Worse)
Karzai Says No Mo' Civvy Deaths in Ops, Please - More - NATO Working at Cutting Collateral Damage
Fmr AFG PM Nailed in Kabul
Report: Most Refugees in Surveyed PAK Don't Want to Go Back to AFG
News Search Results, "Afghanistan", 030737EDT Apr 07
2 May 07
Mo' Buffaloes, Cougars on the Way for CEFCOM
CAN Tps Walk Fine Line in AFG Poppy Fields
CDS in K'har with Lord Stanley's Cup - More
OP Achillies Update from ISAF
K'Har Governor: Torture Doesn't Happen (But We Must Check)- CDS Pushed Plan? - Def Min Finally Talks? - MPs Politick Some More - More - "Over tea, Afghan prisoners describe torture"
Folks Starting to Return to Sangin After Taliban Nailed - Outgoing NATO Sector South Boss Says Taliban Influence Dropping - New Guy Takes the Conn - More
Push Continues in Helmand
Opinion: Why Are We There? - Liberal hypocrisy on torture
AFG Miners Dream of Emeralds
1 May 07
Commons Motion to GTFO Defeated 225-28
SIGINT Boys Listening to Taliban
More on CF Gunners in Theatre
Reporters Chafe at Embed Rules
Medical Clinics Possible (Again) in Sangin - More - K'har Still Faces Daily Terror - Five Taliban, Cops Nailed in South
DoD Briefing, Maj. Gen. Van Loon, 30 Apr 07 - Brit to Take Over Sector South from Van Loon
More on OP Silicon - More - CNN: Lotsa Taliban Nailed in Helmand
CAN For Min Warned of AFG Abuse - Human Rights Watch Letter to NATO Secretary General, 28 Nov 06 - And How Many Media Outlets Wrote About the Letter at the Time????? - CAN Gov't Concedes CAN Corrections Officials Reported AFG Torture
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