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News Watch 2008

Below follows a selection of the latest news items from the sections above.

Dec 23: Taliban's Omar rejects reports of peace formula, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters

Dec 23: FACTBOX-Security developments Dec 23, Reuters

Dec 22: Indications children being hit hard by pneumonia, IRIN

Dec 22: NATO to engage tribes in Taliban fight, Golnar Motevalli, Reuters

Dec 21: Extra U.S. troops aim for "tipping point", Jon Hemming, Reuters

Dec 21: Allies must follow US in boosting Afghan forces-NATO, Reuters

Dec 21: US 'can talk to some elements of Taliban', The Telegraoh

Dec 21: Taliban Unimpressed by Promised US Surge, Antiwar.com

Dec 21: What Motivates the Torture Enablers? Scott Horton, Harpers Magazine

Dec 21: Taliban chief proposes formula to end Afghanistan crisis, Hindustan Times

Dec 20: Q & A: Hamid Karzai, The Chicago Tribune

Dec 19: Soviet failures echo for US, Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor

Dec 18: Iran called upon to halt winter deportations, IRIN

Dec 18: Pakistani Islamists call for block on U.S. supplies, Zeeshan Haider, Reuters

Dec 18: Kabul residents have more fear of gangs than of Taliban, Nancy A. Youssef, McClatchy Newspapers

Dec 17: Islamists not main suspects in Paris probe-minister, Reuters

Dec 17: Rural Afghans Resistant To Official Judicial System, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, National Public Radio

Dec 17: Afghanistan must not replicate Iraq road map, Christian Aid / Reuters

Dec 17: “Local integration” key to internal displacement, IRIN

Dec 16: 'Charmak' disease still killing people, livestock in west, IRIN

Dec 16: Cheney defends waterboarding use, Al Jazeera

Dec 16: UK troop casualties surge, Jonathon Burch, Reuters

Dec 16: Taliban Courts Filling Justice Vacuum, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, National Public Radio

Dec 16: Rough Road Ahead For Legal System, Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, National Public Radio

Dec 16: No relief in sight for war-wracked Afghanistan, Thibauld Malterre, AFP

Dec 15: UN commits to preserving mass grave sites, IRIN

Dec 15: US costs of Iraq, Afghan wars top $900 bln, David Morgan, Reuters

Dec 15: Pakistan haulers refuse to take supplies to Afghanistan, The New Nation / AFP

Dec 15: Pleas of Afghan ex-poppy farmers, Bilal Sarwary, BBC

Dec 14: Envoys discuss Afghan troubles, Al Jazeera

Dec 14: NATO looks to north Afghan neighbours for supplies, Golnar Motevalli, Reuters

Dec 14: Taliban Raids on NATO Convoys Crippling - Analysts, Zofeen Ebrahim, IPS

Dec 14: Afghans torn over family size, James Palmer, San Fransisco Chronicle

Dec 14: Taleban tax: allied supply convoys pay their enemies for safe passage, Tom Coghlan, Times

Dec 12: Afghan improvised roadside blasts rise sharply, Reuters

Dec 12: Lancet: Dozens of nations inflated vaccine numbers, Maria Cheng, AP

Dec 12: Physicians for Human Rights Calls for Probe into Removal of Mass Grave, Press Release Web

Dec 12: Kandahar Schools Empty After Acid Attack on Girls, Mohammad Ilyas Dayee, IWPR

Dec 11: Saudi Arabia and the Future of Afghanistan, Council of Foreign Relations, Greg Bruno

Dec 11: U.S. Senate report ties Rumsfeld to Abu Ghraib abuse, David Morgan, Reuters

Dec 11: US aims for more troops, Gates says, Andrew Gray, Reuters

Dec 10: Report Confirms Torture at Guantanamo, Becky Akers, The New American

Dec 10: Warlords Toughen US Task in Afghanistan, Aryn Baker, Time

Dec 10: U.S.-led forces kill 7 Afghans in friendly fire, Reuters

Dec 10: Drug producers, smugglers under pressure? IRIN

Dec 9: Villagers bombed in August still living with relatives, IRIN

Dec 8: Mullah Omar calls on Afghans to boycott election, Antara

Dec 8: Taliban in 72 pct of Afghanistan, think-tank says, Jon Hemming, Reuters

Dec 7: Taliban urges Western troops to leave, Golnar Motevalli, Reuters

Dec 7: US to deploy new forces south of Kabul to protect capital, AFP / Sydney Morning Herald

Dec 7: Official Calls for Sensitivity to Afghan Demands, Kirk Semple, New York Times

Dec 4: Weapons cache discovery underscores risks to civilians, IRIN

Dec 4: Governor of key province sacked, Noor Khan, AP

Dec 4: Afghanistan says it will sign cluster bomb treaty, Walter Gibbs and Kirk Semple, International Herald Tribune

Dec 3: UN calls for more action to protect children, IRIN

Dec 3: Afghan Refugees Return Home but Find Only a Life of Desperation, Adam B Ellick, New York Times

Dec 3: Afghani fruits, carpets come second among 38 countries, BNA

Dec 3: Children at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS, Leslie Knott, Relief Web

Dec 2: Drought, poverty lead children to abandon school, IRIN

Dec 2: Military Inquires Into Possible Detainee Abuse, Kirk Semple, New Semple

Dec 2: Spain's Secret Role in the War on Terror, Lisa Abend, Time

Dec 2: ISAF Risks Losing Hearts and Minds in North, Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, IWPR

Dec 2: Terror attacks and winter make humanitarian aid work very dangerous, Relief Web

Dec 1: Nazia, "I work as health worker despite threats to my life”, IRIN

Dec 1: Afghans wary of Taliban, U.S., Jason Motlagh, Washington Times

Dec 1: 350 women in Afghan prisons, many for 'moral crimes:' UN, AFP

Nov 30: Suicide bomber hits German embassy vehicle in Kabul, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters

Nov 30: British soldiers shoot Afghan policeman dead: military, AFP, Yahoonews.com

Nov 29: Factbox - Security developments, 29 Nov 2008, Reuters / Relief Web

Nov 28: Anger with government after suicide attack, Chris Sands, The National

Nov 28: Riot in Kabul after civilian killed, Yousuf Azimy, Swissinfo.ch

Nov 27: Blast rocks Afghan capital, Al Jazeera

Nov 27: Food insecurity may cause deaths this winter, IRIN

Nov 27: Nobody supports the Taliban, but people hate the government, Robert Fisk, The Independent

Nov 26: Military' 'hearts and minds' campaign creates no-go zones for aid workers, Christian Aid / Relief Web

Nov 26: Afghanistan demands 'timeline' for end of military intervention, AFP

Nov 26: Afghan President demands end of civilian killings by UN forces, DPA / Relief Web

Nov 26: Factbox - Security developments, 26 Nov 2008, Relief Web

Nov 26: Afghan president wishes he could down U.S. planes, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters

Nov 26: Life in Afghanistan, BBC

Nov 26: Obama's great foreign policy challenge, Robert Fox, The Guardian

Nov 26: Kidnapped aid worker targeted by error: colleagues, Joelle Diderich, Yahoonews.com

Nov 25: Afghanistan seeks winter food aid, Al Jazeera

Nov 25: 10 Taliban arrested in school girl acid attack, Noor Khan, AP

Nov 25: Pervasive corruption fuels deep anger - Many long for harsh but clean rule of Taliban, Kim Barker, Chicago Tribune

Nov 25: Afghanistan's stunning lakes thirst for tourism, Sardar Ahmad and Danny Kemp, Yahoo.com

Nov 25: New realism in rhetoric, George Alagiah, BBC News

Nov 25: 1.6 million children of under 5 yrs age at risk of dying this winter, Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan / Relief Web

Nov 24: Karzai's death-penalty dilemma, Graeme Smith, Globe and Mail

Nov 23: Taliban to target convoys, Al Jazeera

Nov 23: Factbox - Security developments, 23 Nov 2008, Reuters

Nov 23: Afghan opposition demands election in April, Reuters