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News Watch February 2009

Feb 27: Afghans protest against foreign troops, six hurt, Reuters

Feb 27: 'Secret' Taliban talks under way, Al Jazeera

Feb 26: Isolation shields Afghanistan from financial crisis, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters

Feb 26: China breaks its silence, M K Bhadrakumar, Asia Times Online

Feb 26: A Strategy for Afghanistan, Henry A. Kissinger, The Washington Post

Feb 26: IDPs in northwest battle cold, diseases and hunger, IRIN

Feb 26: Don't create new Guantanamo elsewhere, EU tells US, Reuters

Feb 26: Accountability for civilian casualties needed before more troops arrive, Relife Web / Amnesty

Feb 26: U.S. soldier accused of killing Afghan acquitted, chinaview.cn

Feb 26: Lawyer says Guantanamo abuse worse since Obama, Reuters

Feb 25: Snowstorm kills, displaces people in north, IRIN

Feb 25: Exclusive: Army is fighting British jihadists, Top Army officers reveal surge in attacks by radicalised Britons, Kim Sengupta, The Independent

Feb 25: Media Law Wrangling Leaves Journalists in Limbo, IWRP

Feb 25: Civilian deaths up 40 percent, IRIN

Feb 25: Video: The complex nature of fighting, Al Jazeera

Feb 25: Pakistan urges rethinking of US drone attacks, Paul Eckert, Ruters

Feb 25: Karzai floats proposal for April election, AFP

Feb 25: Change slow for isolated Afghans, Bilal Sarwary, BBC

Feb 25: Gitmo Report Contradicts Govt. Claims of 'Humane' Detention, William Fisher, Antiwar.com

Feb 25: Pakistan hails new Afghan relations, Al Jazeera

Feb 24: Afghans brave poor security to register vote, Jonathon Burch, Reuters

Feb 24: Mulla Omar orders halt to attacks on Pak troops, Mazhar Tufail, International the News

Feb 24: One month in Kabul, Hamish Macdonald, Al Jazeera

Feb 24: In the north, Afghans fight hunger, not the Taliban, Jonathon Burch, Reuters

Feb 23: Coalition Admit Civilians Killed in Herat Strike, Shapoor Saber, IWPR

Feb 23: "I'll talk to Taliban": Afghan presidential hopeful, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters

Feb 23: Canadian military launches probe into deaths of 2 children, cbcnews.ca

Feb 22: "It's too risky to be an aid worker", IRIN

Feb 22: US admits civilian deaths, Al Jazeera

Feb 22: Russia is pulled in two directions on aiding U.S., Clifford J. Levy, International Herald Tribune

Feb 22: Very Bad News: Bagram Air Base Will Be Obama's Guantanamo, Stephen Foley, Alternet / Independent UK

Feb 20: US expands Bagram prison, Al Jazeera

Feb 19: The Taliban get their first wish, Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times Online

Feb 19: Civilian Casualties May Surge As Well, Ali Gharib, Inter Press Service

Feb 19: Video: Afghans fear civilian casualties with greater US troop presence, Al Jazeera

Feb 18: U.S. sends more troops, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters

Feb 18: Herat Official Claims Civilians Killed in US Strike, Shapoor Saber, IWPR

Feb 18: Two professors theorize on bin Laden hideout, Steve Holland, Reuters

Feb 18: Civilian injured in convoy incident, ISAF/Nato, Relief Web

Feb 18: Thousands flee fighting and hunger, Amnesty

Feb 18: 'Two-thirds of Afghan police take illegal drugs', Ben Farmer, The Telegraph

Feb 17: Video: No help for Afghan child labourers, Al Jazeera

Feb 17: FACTBOX-Security developments Feb 17, Reuters

Feb 17: Mobilizing Afghan Militias: Civil Defense Forces Vs. 'Tribal Militias', Matthew P. Dearing and Matthew C. Dupee, Middle East Times

Feb 17: Newest US troops in dangerous region near Kabul, Jason Straziuso, AP

Feb 17: Taliban forces students out of schools into madrasas, IRIN

Feb 17: Talks with Taliban through Afghan govt channels only, Daily Times

Feb 17: Alarm over civilian deaths, BBC

Feb 17: Moscow again eyes Afghanistan 20 years after retreat, Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor

Feb 16: US-Afghan pact to reduce deaths, Al Jazeera

Feb 16: US Forces Not to Leave Soon: Karzai, Daily Outlook Afghanistan

Feb 15: Heavy snow kills children, destroys houses, IRIN

Feb 15: Karzai hits out at U.S. critics, Reuters

Feb 15: West risks repeating Soviet mistakes, Reuters

Feb 15: 20th anniversary of Russia's defeat, AFP

Feb 15: Kabul on the edge, conspiracy theories about the U.S. run rampant through the city, Michael Gisick, Stars and Stripes

Feb 15: Consider a graceful exit now, Lysiane Gagnon, Globe and Mail

Feb 14: The Warlords of Afghanistan, Aryn Baker, Time

Feb 13: New U.S. envoy in Afghanistan to talk security, Reuters

Feb 13: US adviser suggested delay in Guantanamo release, Andrew Gray, Reuters

Feb 13: Cost of war in Afghanistan soars to £2.5bn, Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian

Feb 13: Karzai’s Great Gamble, Jean MacKenzie, IWPR

Feb 12: Attacks in Kabul expose US occupation’s deepening crisis, Bill Van Auken, wsws.org

Feb 12: Bildspel med kommentarer: Audio slideshow: From the Afghan archives, BBC

Feb 12: Coordinated Kabul assault shows Taliban strength, Anand Gopal, Christian Science Monitor

Feb 12: Kabulis Stunned by Taleban Raid, IWPR

Feb 12: Children killed in shootout with Australians, Reuters

Feb 11: War 'could be lost by summer', Alex Spillius, The Telegraph

Feb 11: Food insecurity, the problem that never went away, Aunohita Mojumdar, Relief eb

Feb 11: Report: US military struggles to track weapons being used to train forces, Anne Flaherty, AP / Chicago Tribune

Feb 11: US, NATO Forces In Advanced Plans To Create Citizen Militias: Reveals Leaked Email, Virginia M. Moncrieff, Huffington Post

Feb 10: Why are U.S. forces in Afghanistan? Richard Reeves, The State Journal-Register

Feb 10: Northerners Leaving in Droves, thousands flee poverty, unemployment and drought, Shah Reza Munshizada, IWPR

Feb 10: Balkh Drug Addicts Face Grim Future, Abdul Latif Sahak, IWPR

Feb 9: US: Afghan task tougher than Iraq, Al Jazeera

Feb 9: Video: US and Afghan support for Karzai wanes, Al Jazeera

Feb 9: Pressure on Media Ahead of Elections, IWPR

Feb 9: People 'losing confidence', Jill McGivering, BBC

Feb 8: Current efforts are not enough, Relief Web, DPA

Feb 7: Corruption stunts rickshaw factory, Hamid Shalizi, Reuters

Feb 7: Iran and the Future of Afghanistan, Greg Bruno and Lionel Beehner, Council on Foreign Relations

Feb 6: U.S.-led raid kills six in south, IRIN

Feb 6: Kyrgyzstan says U.S. air base decision is final, Olga Dzyubenko, Reuters

Feb 5: Afghan mobile phone firm tops 3 million users, Golnar Motevalli, Reuters

Feb 5: Taliban Strategy Aims To Cut NATO Logistics, Undermine Elections, Radio Free Europe, Ron Synovitz

Feb 4: Blackwater under review, Sara A. Carter, Washington Times

Feb 4: US plan to arm militias scares some, Kathy Gannon, AP

Feb 4: Afghanistan says foreign fighters coming from Iraq, Sayed Salahuddin, International Herald Tribune

Feb 4: Afghan president hits out at NATO, U.S. allies, Golnar Motevalli, Reuters

Feb 4: America's long, long Afghan war, Bernd Debusmann, Reuters

Feb 4: Child servitude, marriage resemble modern-day slavery, IRIN

Feb 3: Forces arrest suicide bomb cell, official says, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters

Feb 3: Taleban violence spreads: US report, AFP / Khaleej Times

Feb 3: Video: Child mortality rate soars, Al Jazeera

Feb 3: UN: 2,100 civilians killed in 2008, Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters

Feb 3: Upset with West, is Afghan president turning east? Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters

Feb 3: Pakistan militant attack cut US, NATO supply line, Riaz Khan, AP

Feb 3: Taliban violence spreads: US report, Dan De Luce, AFP

Feb 2: Taleban Hamper Musa Qala Reconstruction Efforts, Aziz Ahmad Tassal and Mohammad Ilyas Dayee, IWPR