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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections20 ... 56,00.html

I haven't been hearing much in the news, and now elections are being held back. Has anyone been following Afghanistan's progress closely?

Hrm @ The Guardian...

ok ok it's slanted liberal mund numbing junk, whatever.
I'm more interested in Afghanistan. Maybe index you have been following this? I keep searching for some good stories, but they are harder to find buried in the Iraq situation.

A few aid workers are murdered. A few Marines are wounded. Several dozen Taliban/al-Qaeda thugs find paradise is much hotter than they were led to believe. Voter registration slowly continues in outlying areas. Karzai clangs the tin cup. That pretty much sums it up. The problem is, Birds, as you mentioned, the story is in Iraq and except for a few leftist Brit rags there's not much coverage coming out of Afghanistan and there likely won't be until the election gets closer. The Afghanistan story, btw, is currently in Pakistan as Operation Hammer and Anvil continues in the Walliworld badlands. Pakistan reportedly just launched a second big offensive against AQ terrorists, Taliban refugees and the tribesmen giving them shelter.


US Special Ops:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,122521,00.html

Pakistan Offensive:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3800055.stm

Aid Workers Killed:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3794973.stm

Taliban Denies Killing Aid Workers:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3797579.stm

The Good: recent stuff

[quote]
Signs of Hope in Afghanistan:

You can travel around, as CBS News has, and see the results of foreign aid projects in the countryside. There are big projects, like a highway construction program that began with the Kabul to Kandahar road, which was completed in record time. And there are countless smaller projects that make real improvements in the lives of the people.

Aid to Afghanistan is not costing a lot: 67 dollars a year for each man, woman and child. Kosovo got more than ten times that as it recovered from war. Even Haiti got more. But a little bit of aid goes a long way in this country.

In Charasiab, southeast of Kabul, we saw a new well provided last year by CARE which now brings clean water to a parched village. While we were taping, an old man approached the camera to say, â??Thank you, thank youâ?

I don't know if this one was linked, but...

Pakistani warplanes bomb al-Qaeda

Thanks a lot. I haven't had time to read everything yet with work and being 21 and out of school and all Will respond soon.

Have we forgotten Afghanistan? How could we. Those Burkas were damn sexy.