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QALAT, Afghanistan U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist
said Monday that the Afghan guerrilla war can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Taliban and their
supporters into the Afghan government.
Attacks in Afghanistan Grow More Frequent and Lethal
Carlotta Gall The New York Times
"A joint offensive by NATO and Afghan military
forces killed 40 suspected Taliban insurgents in the southern province of Helmand, Afghan Defence Ministry said in a statement
on Sunday."
President Bush Says Fighting Overseas Makes America
Safer
Blood-Soaked Morning In Iraq
Bodies Strewn About Capital, U.S. Raid Kills 4 Militants, 4 Civilian Women
‘Steady, silent exodus’ of refugees fleeing Iraq
Thousands leaving daily as sectarian violence continues, U. N. agency says
11 U.S. troops killed as Ramadan attacks mount
With 70 slain, October on pace to be deadliest month in two years
As the death toll climbed for both U.S. forces and Iraqi civilians, who
are being killed at a rate of 43 a day, the country’s Shiite-dominated government remained under intense U.S. pressure
to shut down Shiite militias.
U.S. Army plans for current Iraq troop level to 2010
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Army is planning on the basis that it may have
to maintain current troop levels in Iraq until at least 2010, its top general said on Wednesday.
"This is not a prediction that things are going poorly or better. It's just that I have to have
enough ammo in the magazine that I can continue to shoot as long as they (commanders in Iraq) want us to shoot," General Schoolmaker
General Casey said attacks in Iraq were as high as they had ever been, and 90 percent
of the violence takes place in five of Iraq's 18 provinces, which are home to just under half the country's population
Remnants of Saddam Hussein’s regime and terrorists
from foreign countries are making a desperate stand in Iraq. Coalition forces are confronting them on the streets of Baghdad
and elsewhere throughout Iraq.
Insurgents Captured, Iraqi Forces Shut Down Financial
Operation
Dozens Killed In Iraq Suicide Blast
Nearly 30 Dead Across Country As Sectarian Violence Rages
Four U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq in 24 hours
More than 2,740 U.S. soldiers have been killed since
the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion to topple
Campaign against the Taliban has "inflicted
lawlessness, misery and starvation on the Afghan people" as thousands flee the fighting only to suffer "dreadful conditions
in refugee camps."
Sunni Bomb Attack Kills 37 Shiites
40 Others Wounded In Sadr City Blast On First Day Of Ramadan
"Afghan Symbol for Change Becomes a Symbol of Failure"
"Today, Little America is the epicenter of a Taliban
resurgence and an explosion in drug cultivation that has claimed the lives of 106 American and NATO soldiers this year and
doubled American casualty rates countrywide."
Iran's target: 3,000 dead Americans by Nov. 7..(85% of all IEDs in Iraq from Iran)
IrishMike 10/11/2006
2,660 Iraq civilians killed in September
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and LEE KEATH, Associated Press Writers Wed Oct 11
BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 2,660 Iraqi civilians
were killed in Baghdad in September, according to new Health Ministry figures — 400 more than the month before despite
an intensified U.S.-Iraqi sweep aimed at reining in violence.
Baghdad police find seven decapitated bodies
Victims of suspected sectarian revenge attack had been abducted Thursday
Insurgents attack U.S. ammo dump in Iraq
By LEE KEATH, Wed Oct 11
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A massive fire at an ammunition dump at a U.S. base in southern Baghdad was sparked by a mortar
round fired by insurgents, which set off a series of explosions from detonating tank and artillery shells that shook buildings
miles away, the U.S. military said Wednesday.
Road Bomb Kills 5 Afghans, Including Top Leaders of Local District
By CARLOTTA GALL
KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct. 9 — Five people, including three officials who were the entire leadership of a district
in eastern Afghanistan, were killed Monday morning in a roadside bomb explosion on their way to investigate a school burning,
police officials said.
Dozens of bodies found in Baghdad
By Ross Colvin
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi police
found 50 bodies dumped across Baghdad on Tuesday, apparent victims of sectarian death squads, and a bombing at a bakery in
the capital killed 10 people in the biggest single attack of the day.
Coalition forces have conducted hundreds of raids and thousands of patrols,
seizing caches of enemy weapons and massive amounts of ammunition that can no longer be used against our troops or innocent
civilians
Two suicide blasts rock eastern Afghan city, 16 wounded
Retired General Assails Planning for Iraq War
Zinni Warns Against Staying the Course
Death Squads Online
As if things weren't bad enough, now Iraq's sectarian butchers are posting their execution lists
on the Internet.
Afghans 'may swing to Taliban'
says Nato commander Helen McCormack
Nato's commander in Afghanistan has warned
that the country is at a tipping point and that the majority of Afghans will begin supporting Taliban militants unless conditions
improve in the country in the next six months.
General David Richards, said up to 70 per
cent of Afghans might prefer an "austere and unpleasant" life under the Taliban rather than endure the current levels of fighting
for years to come. The British general called for more troops so that he could harness the "military victories" to date and "exploit" the opportunities
that winter might provide in defeating insurgents.
Al Qaeda Iraq Chief Killed In Raid?
U.S. Military Says It's 'Highly Unlikely'; DNA Tests
Are Being Done
Iraqi officials are doing DNA
tests on a slain militant to determine if he is al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the deputy interior minister said
Thursday.
"We suspect one of those killed is Abu Ayyub al-Masri," said Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Maj.
Gen. Hussein Kamal. "We are holding DNA tests to find out if he is."
Rumsfeld Resigns; Bush Names Former CIA Director as Replacement
By Vince Crawley
Washington File
Washington, November
8, 2006 -- President Bush, responding to concerns expressed by American voters in November 7 midterm elections, has accepted
the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and has nominated former CIA Director Robert M. Gates to replace him.
Democrats Applaud Decision to Replace Rumsfeld
Democrats, whose
victories were fueled in large part by public opposition to the war in Iraq, welcomed President Bush's decision to replace
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
Well at least it's a start in the right direction
"Today I have visited whole Baghdad city, no invaders found. You go and
see how we have ousted them from this city. They are cying outside and waiting to receive bullets. They will be killed shortly."
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