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News Watch August 2005

Aug 31: U.N. Reports Decline in Opium Poppy Cultivation in Afghanistan, US Info

Aug 30: Pitfalls precede Afghan vote, N.C. Aizenman, Gulf News

Aug 26: Al Qaeda may 'target Asian cities', Reuters, CNN

Aug 26: Afghan fighting kills 10 suspected Taliban, AP, Orlando Sentinel

Aug 24: UN fear at rise in Afghan attacks, Susannah Price, BBC

Aug 24: Interrogator pleads guilty in Afghan case, Alicia A. Caldwell, AP, Island Packet Online

Aug 24: Why is Taliban holding its fire? Gulf News

Aug 23: Afghan heroin hang-glider downed, BBC

Aug 23: 40 Afghan rebs killed, AP, The Daily News

Aug 17: Campaigning begins in Afghanistan, BBC

Aug 16: Worst behaved at the Kabul Zoo - the humans, Scott Baldauf, The Christian Science Monitor

Aug 16: 28 alleged Taliban die in clashes, AP, The Guardian

Aug 16: Afghanistan: Despite progress, objective of stability remains to be met – Annan, Relief Web

Aug 11: Militants kill Afghan woman they called a spy, Carlotta Gall, International Herald Tribune

Aug 11: Afghan refugees defy order to leave Pakistani camps, Relief Web

Aug 10: Taliban kill Afghan woman on spying charge, Reuters

Aug 10: Bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan kills U.S. soldier, wounds another, AP, USA Today

Aug 10: Struggling to survive in Afghanistan, Jill McGivering ,BBC

Aug 10: Musharraf's double game unravels, Ahmed Rashid, International Herald Tribune

Aug 9: Pakistan: Over 30 tribal Afghan refugee camps to close by end of August, Relief Web

Aug 9: 'Militants' kill doctor in Ghazni, BBC

Aug 8: US signals NATO to take lead role in Afghanistan in 2006, Relief Web