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News Watch April 2009

Apr 29: US 'losing control', Al Jazeera

Apr 28: Security developments April 28, Reuters

Apr 28: 56% in FATA see Taliban as ‘heroes’: survey, Daily Times

Apr 28: Hamid Karzai vows to change law, AP / LA Times

Apr 28: Some rebels agree to government amnesty, job offer, Anand Gopal, Christian Science Monitor / McClatchy

Apr 27: Bracing for New Prisoner Abuse Photos, William Fisher, IPS

Apr 27: Switching sides, Isaf soldier defected to the Taliban, Qais Azimy, Al Jazeera

Apr 27: Taliban attack government offices in north, Earth Times

Apr 27: Floods and earthquakes destroy thousands of homes, Homayon Khoram, UNAMA / Relief web

Apr 27: Karzai says will run for re-election, AFP

Apr 27: Women's law highlights rift, Martin Patience, BBC News

Apr 27: Rural women hungry for school, Emma Graham-Harrison, Reuters

Apr 27: ADF plays down warlord's role on crucial supply chain, Mark Dodd and Jeremy Kelly, The Australian

Apr 26: Afghanistan's Frustrated Singles, Mohammad Zamir Sapai and Wahidullah Omaryar, IWPR

Apr 26: Split opposition helps Karzai, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters

Apr 26: Government Should Make Bagram Documents Public, ACLU

Apr 26: US endorses Indian role, The Times of India

Apr 26: Stateless Afghans, Sayed Barez, UNAMA

Apr 25: Photo evidence bring new claims US abused prisoners, Tim Reid, Times online

Apr 24: Taliban mean nothing to hungry farmers, Emma Graham-Harrison, Reuters

Apr 24: The Occasional Taleban - Impoverished young men struggling to find work hired by insurgents as part-time fighters, IWPR, Fetrat Zerak

Apr 24: Old military hardware in a new bottle, Aunohita Mojumdar, Asia Times

Apr 23: US troops in Iraq on their way to Afghanistan, Chelsea J. Carter, Antiwar Newswire / AP News

Apr 23: Afghan "terps" risk lives to work with U.S. forces, Golnar Motevalli, Reuters

Apr 23: Sanitation woes in makeshift IDP camps, IRIN

Apr 23: Iran, Afghan border guards clashed, Reuters / Press TV

Apr 22: Czechs 'abandoned British soldiers during fight because it was too dangerous', Matthew Day, The Telegraph

Apr 22: Afghanistan bets on peace with first national park, Emma Graham-Harrison, Reuters

Apr 22: US shares plans to avoid deaths, AFP

Apr 22: Kidnappers seize father of minister, AP

Apr 22: Clinton says Pakistan is abdicating to the Taliban, Arshad Mohammed, Reuters

Apr 22: U.S. urged to focus on governance, Paul Eckert, Reuters

Apr 22: Afghan presidential candidates hope to conjure up Obama magic, Jessica Leeder, Globe and Mail

Apr 22: Millions for textbooks bogged down, Heidi Vogt, AP

Apr 22: Top US officials shaped 'torture' policy: report, AFP

Apr 22: Afghan Women March, America Turns Away, Nader Nadery and Hasheeb Humayoon, New York Times

Apr 21: Senior opposition figure to back Karzai in poll, Reuters

Apr 21: Five million children not in school, IRIN

Apr 21: Afghan gov't: No breakthroughs in Taliban talks, Amir Shah, The Guardian

Apr 20: Made homeless by Taliban, Afghans shelter in caves, Emma Graham-Harrison, Reuters

Apr 20: Policy options paper: From AfPak to PakAf, A Response to the New U.S. Strategy for South Asia, Daniel Markey, Council on Foreign Relations

Apr 20: Earthquake in Nangarhar OCHA Situation Report No. 2, Relief Web

Apr 20: Zawahri tells Muslims not to be fooled by Obama, Inal Ersan, Reuters

Apr 20: The dragon in the Hindu Kush: China's interests in Afghanistan, Thomas Adams and Arnav Manchanda, Globe and Mail

Apr 20: Mary McCarthy in Vietnam, Barack Obama in Afghanistan, Seven Lessons and Many Questions for the President, William Astore, Znet

Apr 20: Deadly refugee boat blast a tragic gamble, AFP

Apr 20: US 'regrets' civilian deaths, Al Jazeera

Apr 20: Polish travel agency takes tourists to Afghanistan, AP

Apr 19: Swat Taliban promote ‘love marriages’, The News International

Apr 19: Karzai Asks NATO to Explain Civilian Deaths, AP / The New York Times

Apr 19: Karzai objects to direct U.S. talks with Taliban, Reuters

Apr 18: U.S. says not playing favorites in poll, Reuters

Apr 17: Probe Challenges US Account of Kunduz Killings, IWPR

Apr 17: Many dead in earthquakes, Al Jazeera

Apr 17: Western troops concede more civilian deaths, Jonathon Burch, Reuters

Apr 17: New tactic for US, NATO: say sorry, Peter Graff, Reuters

Apr 16: Insecurity, lack of cash threaten development projects, IRIN

Apr 16: New NATO chief is Islam's "major enemy" - Taliban, Reuters

Apr 16: Security developments April 16, Reuters

Apr 15: US anti-war grannies isolated on Afghanistan, AFP / Yahoo

Apr 15: Rally against women's law, Al Jazeera

Apr 15: Taliban deny executing eloping pair, Reuters

Apr 15: UN concedes rebuilding blunders, John Heilprin, AP / The Herald

Apr 14: Taliban leader says Osama bin Laden still 'alive', Adnkronos

Apr 14: Taliban execute eloping couple, AFP

Apr 13: Villagers say air strike kills civilians, Reuters

Apr 13: UN condemns 'cowardly' killing of female politician in Kandahar, Relief Web

Apr 13: Rapport: Afghan public opinion and the war, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Apr 9: Bombing kills Afghan drugs police, Al Jazeera

Apr 9: Quake hits Afghanistan, no word on casualties, Reuters

Apr 7: Coach keeps eye on the prize, Andy Richardson, Al Jazeera

Apr 7: FACTBOX-Security developments April 7, Reuters

Apr 7: Growing number lack health care, IRIN

Apr 6: Media covers US war dead's return after 18-year ban, Reuters

Apr 6: Women choose exile as Taliban laws return, Christina Lamb, Times Online

Apr 6: Q+A-How does the Shi'ite law affect women? Reuters

Apr 6: Muslim troops for Afghanistan urged, Sarmad Qazi, Gulf Times

Apr 5: Hopes and Doubts Surround Obama Strategy, Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, IWRP

Apr 5: Pakistan finds 46 dead Afghans in truck container, AFP

Apr 4: Military’s influence on aid too great - NGOs, IRIN

Apr 3: Creme brulee on the Afghan front, Hamish MacDonald, Al Jazeera

Apr 3: National Geographic film goes 'Inside Guantanamo', Randall Mikkelsen, Reuters

Apr 3: Aid agencies issue Afghan warning, BBC

Apr 2: We're in Afghanistan for this? Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail

Apr 2: UN Rights Chief Slams New Afghan Law Restricting Women's Rights, Lisa Schlein, Voice of America

Apr 1: Clinton backs talks with Taliban, Al Jazeera

Apr 1: US general wants more troops in Afghan war in 2010, Andrew Gray, Reuters

Apr 1: U.S. reconciliation offer "lunatic", Taliban spokesman, Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters

Apr 1: Eleven killed in provincial council attack, Ismail Sameem, Reuters

Mar 31: Food aid not reaching most vulnerable, IRIN

Mar 31: FACTBOX-Latest facts and figures on Afghanistan, Reuters

Mar 31: Militants give bloody show of strength, Syed Saleem Shahzad, Asia Times Online