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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Afghanistan Sun.com http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/ en-us Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:19:54 -0400 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:19:54 -0400 30 Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack which killed 10 parliamentary campaign workers and injured two others including a candidate. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/680192/cs/1/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:07:57 -0400 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/680192/cs/1/ A US general has revealed the Taliban in Afghanistan are very short of money with their drug labs and supply routes under pressure from US troops. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/680216/cs/1/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:00:43 -0400 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/680216/cs/1/ Taliban militants killed a female teacher and wounded two of her colleagues in an ambush in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt of Bajaur on Thursday, according to Pakistani officials. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/680162/cs/1/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:10:02 -0400 ANI http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/680162/cs/1/ The Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, has been identified as part of the 'most dangerous terrorist threat' to the United States and its war on terrorism. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/680041/cs/1/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:40:10 -0400 ANI http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/680041/cs/1/ Eight campaigners were killed and a candidate for parliamentary elections was injured in a NATO airstrike in northern Afghanistan Thursday, a provincial official said. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/679992/cs/1/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:40:04 -0400 IANS http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/679992/cs/1/ DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's Taliban on Friday took responsibility for triple bombings at a Shi'ite Muslim procession this week, challenging the civilian government furthe... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38343573/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:53:12 -0400 West Australian http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38343573/ A visit to Afghanistan by U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has been overshadowed by a NATO airstrike in northern Afghanistan.Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the strike killed 10 election camp... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38342895/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:43:30 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38342895/ KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two American troops died in fighting in Afghanistan on Thursday, while NATO and local officials said coalition and Afghan forces killed dozens of insurgents in a series of ground... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38343618/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:18:46 -0400 The China Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38343618/ Afghan officials said a coalition airstrike hit the election convoy of an Afghan parliamentary candidate on Thursday, wounding him and killing as many as 10 campaign aides, but the NATO coalition said... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38343619/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:38:21 -0400 The Nation http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38343619/ KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO said an airstrike in northern Afghanistan on Thursday killed about a dozen insurgents, but President Hamid Karzai said the victims were campaign workers seeking votes ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38343616/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:19:06 -0400 News and Sentinel http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38343616/ KABUL: President Hamid Karzai condemned on Thursday an air strike by Nato forces which he said killed 10 poll campaign workers, although US officials maintained it was aimed at an militant leader. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38343613/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:02:00 -0400 Pak Tribune http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38343613/ By -- The Associated Press The military says a chaplain who died in Afghanistan is the first Army clergyman killed in action since the Vietnam War. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38340481/ Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:38:10 -0400 Star-Telegram http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38340481/ NATO said an airstrike in northern Afghanistan on Thursday killed about a dozen insurgents, but President Hamid Karzai said the victims were campaign workers seeking votes in this month's parliamentar... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38338608/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:11:25 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38338608/ We didn't lose, either, in the sense of being defeated. But wars no longer end with surrender ceremonies and ticker-tape parades. They end in a fog of ambiguity, and it's easier to discern what's been... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38338311/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:22:41 -0400 Record Net http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38338311/ U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates once again repeated Washington's resolve on Thursday to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaida network in Afghanistan and in the region. "Taliban should know that we ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38338612/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:41:15 -0400 People's Daily http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38338612/ LAKI, Afghanistan — Sgt. David McFadden was on patrol, wading slowly across the Helmand River. Cool water gurgled peacefully underfoot. But the squad leader knew that things are not always as the... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38335765/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:28:07 -0400 Sign on San Diego http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38335765/ Australian principal up a gum tree over 'gay' line in song KABUL – Afghan president Hamid Karzai yesterday condemned an air strike by Nato-led forces which he said killed 10 election campaign wo... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38335534/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:39:13 -0400 Irish Times http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38335534/ KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO said an airstrike in northern Afghanistan on Thursday killed about a dozen insurgents, but President Hamid Karzai said the victims were campaign workers seeking votes ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38335763/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:43:27 -0400 Japan Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38335763/ A day after the United States designated the Tehrik-e-Taliban or Taliban Movement in Pakistan (TTP) as a "foreign terrorist organisation," elevating the group's international profile, Pakistan's forei... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38335682/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:25:34 -0400 Al Jazeera http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38335682/ By Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. CardenAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2010 – U.S. and coalition troops in southwestern Afghanistan have made significant gains in recent mont... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38332387/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:39:00 -0400 Defense Link http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38332387/ KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's government sought to avert a run on the country's top private bank by nervous investors after directors at Kabulbank resigned, ostensibly to meet new rules but also ami... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38332386/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:00:59 -0400 Reuters http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38332386/ The commander of U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan said Thursday that he has asked his officers to provide "initial assessments" of where he can begin to "thin out" his forces. U.S. Army Ge... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38328804/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:54:45 -0400 VOA http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38328804/ A column of U.S. Army Stryker armored vehicles from 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division roll through southern Iraq en route to Kuwait, 15 Aug 2010 http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38328681/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:54:43 -0400 VOA http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38328681/ KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's government sought to avert a run on the country's top private bank by nervous investors after directors at Kabulbank resigned, ostensibly to meet new rules but ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329032/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:51:30 -0400 West Australian http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329032/ KABUL (AP): The top US military commander in Afghanistan says the sometimes strained relationship between the US and Afghan President Hamid Karzai is solid. Gen. David Petraeus (peh-TRAY'-uhs) says K... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329044/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:47:55 -0400 The Frontier Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329044/ Kabul (Agencies): US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, citing some headway in Afghanistan, arrived in the war-torn country on Thursday to consult with political and military officials. He will be meeti... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329041/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:47:51 -0400 The Frontier Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329041/ MAZAR-I-SHARIF (NNI): The excessive use of water in this northern city has caused well water level in residential houses to drop, residents complain. Increasing numbers of bathrooms, hair dresser sho... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329040/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:47:50 -0400 The Frontier Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329040/ KABUL (NNI): With Afghans clamoring to pull their cash from their nation's biggest bank, the United States risks a politically perilous decision: whether to step in to help shore up a wobbly bank crit... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329042/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:47:50 -0400 The Frontier Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329042/ KABUL (NNI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has again challenged the patience of his international backers as he desperately tries to keep an FBI-sponsored corruption investigation from breaching the w... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329043/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:47:50 -0400 The Frontier Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329043/ KABUL (AIP): Second advisory meeting of Afghan politicians and jihadi leaders was held Thursday in Presidential Palace to discuss modalities for higher peace council. Besides President Hamid Karzai, ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329038/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:47:49 -0400 The Frontier Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329038/ WARDAK (NNI): Mohammad Nader, the head of the Dra Construction Company in Wardak, says he has paid a heavy price for working for the authorities in the central Afghan province . Earlier this year, he... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329039/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:47:49 -0400 The Frontier Post http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329039/ Kabul - US Defence Secretary Roberts Gates said Thursday in Kabul that US troops would stay and fight the Taliban in Afghanistan even after the American military begins to draw down its forces next su... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329024/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:23:09 -0400 Earth Times http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329024/ WASHINGTON - United States officials launched a broad legal offensive against Pakistan's Taleban yesterday, placing the group on its international terrorism blacklist and charging its leader with plan... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38327741/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:07:43 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38327741/ Insurgents in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the Taliban’s opium-producing heartland, are operating with less than half the cash they had a year ago, the commander of coalition forces in ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38327807/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:35:21 -0400 The Globe and Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38327807/ INDIANAPOLIS - American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh and another Muslim inmate have asked a judge to order a federal prison to allow them and other Muslims in their highly restricted cell bl... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329028/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:22:09 -0400 Oakland Tribune http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329028/ KABUL, Afghanistan — NATO said an airstrike in northern Afghanistan on Thursday killed about a dozen insurgents, but President Hamid Karzai said the victims were campaign workers seeking votes i... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329019/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:21:23 -0400 Deseret News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329019/ Afghans wait to withdraw money from the Kabul Bank in Kabul. Afghan financial authorities and the owners of Afghanistan's biggest bank said Thursday that Kabul Bank was in no danger of collapsing, as ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329031/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:18:20 -0400 Yahoo!7 News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38329031/ Insurgents in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the Taliban’s opium-producing heartland, are operating with less than half the cash they had a year ago, the commander of coalition forces in ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38323531/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:27:00 -0400 Globe and Mail http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38323531/ Afghanistan360, a multimedia exhibit on Canada's civilian and military engagement in Afghanistan will be on display at the Queen's Quay Terminal in Toronto, from September 4 to September 12, 2010. Vi... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38324834/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:14:44 -0400 Market Wire http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38324834/ In this photo May 14, 2009 photo, Guantanamo detainees pray before dawn near a fence of razor-wire inside the exercise yard at the U.S. Navy’s Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba. (AP Photo/Br... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38324840/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:56:03 -0400 CNS News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38324840/ (RTTNews) - Two American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Thursday hours before Defense Secretary Roberts Gates arrived in Kabul for talks with President Hamid Karzai and the top NATO commander... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38324999/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:23:08 -0400 Quote.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38324999/ The United Nations is moving swiftly to vaccinate 1.5 million children after a polio case was detected in an area of north-eastern Afghanistan which had been free of the disease for more than a decade... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38321206/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:53:23 -0400 UN News Centre http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38321206/ Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States has been ordered to resign, after seven years in the post.Said Jawad said he was not given any reason for why he must step down by September 22.He told CN... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38321198/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:44:20 -0400 Radio Free Europe http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38321198/ Ten civilians have been killed in a Nato airstrike on vehicles carrying election workers in northern Afghanistan, according to the country's President, Hamid Karzai. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38320821/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:54:33 -0400 Sky News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38320821/ Ten people were killed as a meeting arranged by parliamentary candidate Abdul Wahid Khurasani came under attack in northeastern Takhar province on Thursday, spokesman for provincial administration Fai... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38321203/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:54:00 -0400 People's Daily http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38321203/ Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Ten parliamentary campaign workers were killed in a NATO airstrike in northeastern Afghanistan on Thursday, a provincial official said. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38321187/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:53:44 -0400 CNN Asia http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38321187/ Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Coalition troops in southeastern Afghanistan fought off insurgents after a failed assault on a combat outpost on Thursday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force sa... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38321189/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:53:41 -0400 CNN Asia http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38321189/ Defense Secretary Gates arrived in Afghanistan's capital Thursday for meetings with President Hamid Karzai and top NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38317757/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:01:58 -0400 The Seattle Times http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/6e1d5c8e1f98f17c/id/38317757/