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		<title>Vietnam&#8217;s Karzai dies at 80, in Malaysia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press &#124; 23 July 2011 Nguyen Cao Ky dies at 80; wartime leader of South Vietnam The former general, who sometimes took ruthless action, lived in Southern California after Saigon fell to North Vietnam. Nguyen Cao Ky, the flamboyant former air force general who ruled South Vietnam with an iron fist for two years [...]
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Congressional Budget Office Report: Policy Options for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Download Full Report: pdf [9.5 MB] &#124; Alternate Source: pdf Executive Summary Over the next 10 years, the Department of Defense (DoD) plans to purchase about 730 new medium-sized and large unmanned aircraft systems based on designs currently in operation, while also improving the [...]
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		<title>Remove American Forces from Pakistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Afpakwar &#124; Arshad Zaman &#124; 30 July 2010 It’s official: although careful not to leave any footprints, the U.S. has boots on the ground in Pakistan. U.S. troops in Pakistan ensure compliance by the government, under threat of overt occupation. This was revealed on Thursday 22 July 2010, when U.S. lawmakers Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and [...]
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		<title>Memoirs of Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters &#124; By Myra MacDonald &#124; 10 Feb 2010 “My Life with the Taliban” – on study and Islamic values In  “My Life with the Taliban”,  Abdul Salam Zaeef — who fought with the mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan and later served in the Taliban government before it was ousted in 2001 — writes of how he longed to escape the trappings [...]
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		<title>Wikileaks: The folly that is Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guardian &#124; By Simon Jenkins &#124; 27 July 2010 A history of folly, from the Trojan horse to Afghanistan By recording failure in meticulous detail, the leaked war logs bear devastating witness to our incompetence Is it the death of war? In Vietnam the horror of fighting was brought to TV screens in real time. [...]
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		<title>US/NATO &#8220;Hunters&#8221; Killed Hundreds of Civilians</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pravda.ru &#124; By Lisa Karpova &#124; 27 July 2010 Troops in Afghanistan Had Special Group to Exterminate &#8220;Terrorists&#8221; Hundreds of civilians were killed without public and official knowledge by coalition troops in Afghanistan. Secret plans to kill leaders of the extremist Taliban and Al Qaeda and the discussion of the alleged involvement of Iran and [...]
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		<title>&#8220;Afghanistan is getting more dangerous by the month&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MSNBC &#124; By Evan Vucci, Photojournalist, AP &#124; 22 July 2010 &#8216;We don&#8217;t have enough power to fight&#8217; Three weeks into the fight in the volatile Arghandab Valley, an American platoon of the Army&#8217;s 101st Airborne Division is heading to the rear, weakened by horrific war injuries and unable to continue its mission. The platoon [...]
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		<title>Persistent Engagement: The Obama Doctrine of Neo-Imperialism in Execution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special Warfare &#124; May-June 2010 (Vol. 23, Issue 3) PERSISTENT ENGAGEMENT Civil Military Support Elements [CMSE] Operating in CENTCOM By Maj. Ross F. Lightsey, Sr. In ongoing irregular conflicts, the civil-military support element, or CMSE, is a unique resource that provides military commanders and United States ambassadors in various regions and countries with a means [...]
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		<title>The Daniel Ellsberg Moment: Wikileaks Reveals War Crimes, Lies, and Cover-Up in the Af/Pak War</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikileaks on Sunday published more than 90,000 documents, which cover a period from January 2004 to December 2009, containing classified information about the war in Afghanistan. Wikileaks posted the documents directly to its site, and provided them in advance to The New York Times, The Guardian, and Germany&#8217;s Der Spiegel, all of which ran major [...]
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		<title>QRC (ERMP-UAS) Detachment to Provide Continuous Persistent Surveillance in Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arshad Zaman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clarksville Online &#124; 22 July 2010 By 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment Public Affairs UAV company to wear USASOC patch Fort Huachuca, AZ – At a modest ceremony in a hangar at Libby Army Airfield July 19th, a monumental moment transpired in the field of Army Special Operations Aviation. The Quick Reaction Capability [QRC] 2, [...]
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