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News Watch May 2008

May 29: Attacks on food convoys continue, IRIN

May 28: Insurgent Attacks Still Up in Afghanistan's East, Barnett Rubin, Informed Comment

May 28: Meeting Pakistan's most feared militant, BBC, Syed Shoaib Hasan

May 27: Deaths in Afghan roadside blast, Al Jazeera

May 27: Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave, Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books

May 26: How peaceful Sweden can do this...?! Ahmed bin Babar, The Frontier Post

May 26: Taliban vow to fight on in Afghanistan, Sayed Salahuddin, Yahoo.com

May 26: Hundreds Of Afghans Protest US Koran Shooting, Pak Tribune

May 25: Afghanistan Adds Hunger to Its Worries - Local Drought and Regional Shortages Drive Up Bread Costs, Pamela Constable, Washington Post

May 21: Afghanistan a land of disabled and discarded, Rosie DiManno, The Star

May 20: NATO allies experiencing "battle fatigue", Richard Weitz, EurasiaNet

May 20: Situation in Afghanistan is very complex: Ahmadinejad, Tehran Times Political Desk

May 19: Helmand Farmers Fight to Defend Opium Crop, Mohammad Ilyas Dayee, IWPR

May 19: Karzai backs Gilani on terror strategy, Qudssia Akhlaque, International The News

May 19: Afghanistan journalist in torture claim, Tom Coghlan, The Telegraph

May 19: Afghans skeptical that security's getting better, Jonathon Burch, Reuters

May 19: Under wraps, prostitution rife in north Afghanistan, Tahir Qadiry, Reuters

May 18: “I sold my daughter to feed the rest of my family”, IRIN

May 18: NATO rejects U.N. report on Afghan civilian killings, Reuters, Tiscali.com

May 18: Unlawful killings continue at heavy rate in Afghanistan, UN rights expert says, UNAMA

May 17: U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan, Eric Schmitt and Tim Golden, New York Times

May 16: Afghan aid that works, Mohammad Ehsan Zia, Christian Science Monitor

May 16: Unlawful killings must cease immediately, IRIN

May 16: Is Nato repeating the USSR's mistakes? Alastair Leithead, BBC News

May 15: Dr Barnett Rubin, Ahmad Rasheed: Taliban insurgency not national liberation movement, International The News

May 15: UN: Foreign agents behind spate of Afghan killings, Fisnik Abrashi, AP, DNRonline.com

May 15: WHO confirms `charmak' disease in Herat Province, Relief Web

May 14: Trans-Afghan Pipeline: new geopolitics in old style, Dr. Vakhtang Maisaia, The Georgian Times

May 14: Guantánamo Has Backfired Dreadfully, George Monbiot, rinf.com

May 14: Over 360,000 affected by reduced health services, IRIN

May 14: Hunger adds to Afghanistan's nightmare, Carlotta Gall, International Herald Tribune

May 14: Afghan teacher killed after speech condemning suicide bombings, AP / International Herald Tribune

May 13: Speakers for political solution of Afghanistan issue, International The News

May 13: A Critical battle in the country's culture war looms, Deirdre Tynan, Eurasianet

May 13: A Counterinsurgency Grows in Khost - An unheralded U.S. success in Afghanistan, Ann Marlowe, The Weekly Standard

May 13: Taliban deliver silent death threats after midnight, Luke Baker, Reuters

May 13: Call for food aid from conflict-hit Helmand Province, IRIN

May 13: School Attendance Plummets in Helmand, Aziz Ahmad Tassal, IWPR

May 13: Taliban ban TV in Afghan province, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters

May 12: Taliban on hunger strike in jail, AFP / Daily News

May 12: More provinces poppy-free, but opium production still high, IRIN

May 12: Afghanistan says thousands flee fearing NATO strikes, AFP

May 12: Australian military clears soldiers over Afghan civilian deaths, Arab Times

May 12: At least 427 US military deaths in Afghanistan, AP / Yahoo

May 11: Identification of ex-Guantanamo Suicide Bomber Unleashes Pentagon Propaganda, Andy Worthington, Huffington Post

May 11: New tactics in Taliban killing season, Nick Meo, Sunday Herald International

May 10: NW Afghanistan hit by plague of locusts, Relief Web

May 9: Afghan army far from fighting fit, Antonio Giustozzi, Asia Times Online

May 9: Food becoming larger concern than security in Afghanistan, Ryan Cormier, Canwest News Service

May 9: Helmand Gripped by Opium Harvest - Schoolchildren down pencils and migrant workers arrive to help gather opium paste from the poppy fields, Matiullah Minapal and Aziz Ahmad Tassal, IWPR

May 8: America’s shame, Ailaz Zaka Syed, Khaleej Times

May 8: Afghan ambassador urges action as schools torched, staff attacked, Yahoo

May 8: Suicide bomber in car blows himself up and wouneds 3 in Kabul, Amir Shah, AP

May 8: NATO could end rotating command in S. Afghanistan, Defencetalk.com, AFP

May 8: Afghan intellectuals criticise US, NATO operations, Yahoo.com

May 8: The battle of denial and deniability: Wooing Taliban okay, says Karzai official, but only if it's done by Afghan government, Rosie DiManno, The Star

May 8: One of the world's most difficult places to become a mother, EurasiaNet

May 7: Drugs undermine Afghanistan's efforts to rebuild, Tan Ee Lyn, Relief Web

May 7: Can condoms fulfil multiple expectations? IRIN

May 7: Security and Development in Afghanistan: A Reality Check, Sarah Chayes, The Peacebuilding, Development and Security Program (PDSP) University of Calgary

May 6: Afghan Governors Criticize NATO Fight Against Taliban Militants, Patrick Donahue, Bloombergs

May 6: Polish officers and pilots reluctant to serve in Afghanistan, Warsaw Business Journal

May 6: Marines ignore Taliban cash crop to not upset Afghan locals, Jason Straziuso, AP

May 6: The politics of cluster bombs, Brian McCartan, Asia Times Online

May 6: Afghan medical college struggles to rise from the ashes, Tan Ee Lyn, Relief Web

May 5: Afghan route for caspian oil – America's pipe dream, Yuri Reshetnikov, RUVR

May 5: Fighting forces 40,000 pupils out of class, Quqnoos.com

May 5: Amid War, Afghanistan Builds Its First National Park, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, NPR

May 4: Taking Back The Frontier, Washington Post, Ahmed Rashid

May 4: The Bush team's Geneva hypocrisy, Jason Leopold, Al Jazeera

May 3: US 'mulls' Afghanistan troop boost, Al Jazeera

May 3: Key road toward Pakistan to improve trade, Ron Synovitz, Eurasianet

May 3: The boy who took Karzai's bullet, Peter Beaumont, The Observer

May 2: Coordinated action key to avoiding food tragedy - WFP, IRIN

May 1: Thousands flee as US military operation gets under way, IRIN

May 1: Afghanistan’s National Army: The Ambiguous Prospects of Afghanization, Antonio Giustozzi, The Jamestown Fundation