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News Watch March 2009

Mar 31: Iran, US set to clash over troops at Afghan talks, Aaron Gray-Block and Sue Pleming, Reuters

Mar 31: Clinton Calls Years of Aid 'Heartbreaking' in Their Futility, Glenn Kessler, Washington Post

Mar 30: Pentagon war spending hits $685.7 billion, Reuters

Mar 30: Interview - Most Afghan Taliban want peace, ex-commander says, Jonathon Burch, Reuters

Mar 30: ICRC warns of rising civilian toll, AFP

Mar 29: Factbox - Security developments 29 Mar, Reuters

Mar 29: Karzai wants Taliban removed from UN blacklist, AFP

Mar 28: UN probing 'funds misuse', Brisbane Times

Mar 27: Dozens of schools reopen in volatile south, IRIN

Mar 27: Obama wants to shift burden of fight to Afghans, Ross Colvin, Reuters

Mar 27: Arbitrary detention: A call to action, Relief Web / UNAMA

Mar 27: Why Is a Progressive Think Tank Telling Obama to Escalate the War? Tom Hayden, Huffington Post / Alternet.org

Mar 27: Girls Suffer for Sins of Male Relatives, Wahida Paykan, IWPR

Mar 27: Sunni Take Dim View of Shia Mass Weddings, Abdul Latif Sahak, IWPR

Mar 26: Karzai declares assets to offset corruption smear, Reuters

Mar 26: Policy Brief: Shaping Europe's Afghan Surge, European Council on Foreign Relations

Mar 25: TV station falls under government crackdown, AP

Mar 25: Civilians die in Afghan blast, Al Jazeera

Mar 25: NATO can't measure Afghan war performance, Andrew Gray, Reuters

Mar 25: 10 killed including top Taliban leader, Pak Tribune

Mar 25: Afghans 'embracing democracy', says report, Ad Kronos

Mar 25: “We’re not against polio immunisation” - Taliban spokesman, IRIN

Mar 25: Strikes by Taliban Get Pakistan Help, U.S. Aides Say, Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt, NY Times

Mar 24: SCENARIOS-Outcomes of U.S. Afghan review, Reuters

Mar 24: Taliban orders aid agencies to leave Swat, Press TV

Mar 24: Afghan singer's new refrain is a call for freedom, AFP

Mar 23: Security developments March 23, Reuters

Mar 23: U.S. tried to win ex-Guantanamo detainee's silence, Luke Baker, Reuters

Mar 23: US wants Afghanistan "exit strategy", meets NATO, David Brunnstrom, Reuters

Mar 23: US will appoint Afghan 'prime minister' to bypass Hamid Karzai, Julian Borger and Ewen MacAskill, the Guardian

Mar 23: In Afghanistan, US military's `Help Wanted' sign, Anne Flaherty, AP

Mar 22: Plight of child deportees from Iran, IRIN

Mar 22: U.S. military, Afghan police dispute deaths in raid, Reuters

Mar 22: America floats plan to tempt Taliban into peace process, Jason Burke, The Guardian

Mar 20: U.N. says fears of unfair Afghan poll well-founded, Louis Charbonneau, Reuters

Mar 20: 'Fighters killed' in Afghan clashes, Al Jazeera

Mar 19: UN envoy says donor aid is fragmenting Afghanistan, John Heilprin, AP

Mar 19: Taliban Factions and the US Policy Review? Daily Outlook Afghanistan, Abbas Daiyar

Mar 19: Rapport: Humanitarianism under Threat, Antonio Donini, Feinstein International Center

Mar 19: Our Must-Win War: The 'Minimalist' Path Is Wrong, John McCain and Joseph Lieberman, Washington Post

Mar 19: Oxfam Warns Obama of Disaster, Targets Louis Berger Group, Ralph Lopez, opednews.com

Mar 19: Bomb attack kills Afghan MP, Al Jazeera

Mar 18: Report: What gains for press freedom from Hamid Karzai’s seven years as president? Reporters Without Borders

Mar 18: Afghanistan is Not a Puppet State: Karzai, Daily Outlook Afghanistan

Mar 18: Pak-Afghanistan BUZZ KUSHI Mela to be organized soon: Minister, Associated Press of Pakistan

Mar 18: NATO says 4,000 extra troops needed for Afghan poll, Reuters

Mar 18: Taleban Grab Share of Reconstruction Aid, Fetrat Zerak, IWPR

Mar 18: Sikh, Hindu minorities "disappointed, isolated and oppressed", IRIN

Mar 18: “Humanitarian work has never been as difficult as now”, ICRC, IRIN

Mar 17: Deforestation marches on, IRIN

Mar 17: Security developments March 17, Reuters

Mar 17: Plan to Split Taliban Lures Obama Deeper Into War, Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service

Mar 17: First President's Remains Reinterred In Kabul, Radio Free Europe

Mar 17: Poll of Americans finds 42% call Afghanistan campaign a mistake, Tuscon Citizen

Mar 17: BBC poll: 60 percent of Britons unconvinced of government's arguments for Afghanistan presence, Raphael G. Satter, Hartford Courant / AP

Mar 17: Afghan stars defecting on trips abroad, Jason Straziuso, AP

Mar 16: Red Cross report describes "torture" at CIA jails, Reuters

Mar 16: Afghanistan holds mineral treasure: minister, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters

Mar 16: Taliban says no peace talks with leader Mullah Omar, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters India

Mar 16: Suicide blast targets police, Al Jazeera

Mar 15: Battle lines drawn over contraception, IRIN

Mar 15: Limited scope to absorb more refugees, IRIN

Mar 13: Pakistan Taliban say 24 dead in U.S. drone attack, Reuters

Mar 13: Afghan Envoy Assails Western Allies as Halfhearted, Defeatist, Karen DeYoung, Washington Post

Mar 12: Food Security Outlook Jan - Jun 2009, FEWS / Relief Web

Mar 12: Food still unaffordable for millions, IRIN

Mar 11: Women in Bamyan build a road with their bare hands, Jaffar Rahim, UNAMA / Relief Web

Mar 11: Afghanistan condemns journalist killing, AFP

Mar 11: Talking to the Taleban, BBC

Mar 11: Obama Risks Losing Core Supporters With Strategy, Mary Lu Carnevale, Wall Street Journal

Mar 10: Supreme Court Rejects Blasphemy Appeal, Jean MacKenzie, IWPR

Mar 10: Taliban say Obama's call on moderates "illogical", Reuters

Mar 10: Russian Advice: More Troops Won't Help, Tom Lasseter, Afterdowningstreet.org / McClatchy Newspapers

Mar 10: Afghanistan's Soviet remnants, Lyse Doucet, BBC News

Mar 10: Women seek inclusion in Taliban talks, AFP

Mar 9: Obama says US is losing war and hints at Taleban talks, Tim Reid and Michael Evans, Times Online

Mar 9: Video: Families distraught by sexual violence, Al Jazeera

Mar 9: Government fails to deliver winter wheat aid, IRIN

Mar 9: Iran says U.S. failing, Hashem Kalantari and Fredrik Dahl,
Reuters

Mar 9: Former warlord to fight Karzai in polls, Jerome Starkey, The Independent

Mar 9: Talking to the Taliban, Imran Khan, Al Jazeera

Mar 8: Security developments, March 8, Reuters

Mar 8: Karzai backs Obama's call on Taliban, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters

Mar 8: Grim struggle continues for women, Heidi Vogt, AFP

Mar 8: China's thirst for copper could hold key to Afghanistan's future, Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers

Mar 7: Karzai approves August date for polls, Sardar Ahmad, AFP

Mar 5: Afghan candidate says Karzai should stand aside, Simon Denyer, Reuters

Mar 5: Rethink Afghanistan, Brave New Foundation

Mar 5: Tempted by a Taliban job offer, IRIN

Mar 5: Proud literate woman in Bamyan, UNAMA / Relief Web

Mar 5: Afghan human rights deteriorating: UN, AFP

Mar 4: Afghanistan confirms August poll, Al Jazeera

Mar 4: Peace with justice for the women of Afghanistan, UNAMA / Relief Web

Mar 4: Zardari rules out Taleban truce, BBC