Word: afghanistan
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...taking all of us with them on their mission, seeing their images through their eyes. So we have Nachtwey reflecting on his photograph of an Afghan amputee, and David Guttenfelder explaining how he took his haunting image of Marines sleeping in one-man trenches in Afghanistan's Helmand province. The Marine in the middle is Corporal Kurtis Lee Baller - and we even found his wife, who instantly recognized him in the picture. "I knew it was Kurtis right away because that's how he sleeps at home," she said. "Not in a hole, but when he sleeps on the couch...
...Opposes Obama's plan to send additional troops to Afghanistan...
Three months after a German-ordered air strike in Kunduz, Northern Afghanistan, Germany's Defense Ministry is poised to pay compensation to the relatives of Afghan civilians killed in the attack. On Wednesday, a lawyer representing victims' families held talks with Defense Ministry officials in Berlin aimed at hammering out a compensation deal. "This isn't just about dishing out a few dollars," Karim Popal, a Bremen-based lawyer representing 80 relatives of victims, tells TIME. "We want to set up a special fund and provide long-term help for the women and children who lost their families' breadwinners...
...library event took place hours after Obama announced he would throw 30,000 additional troops into an ungovernable country called Afghanistan. Carlos and Mélida Arredondo listened and thought of their lost son and a nephew now at Fort Hood, one tour of Afghanistan behind him, a second on the horizon because the Army is fractured by years of battle...
...mantra long invoked to justify American military engagement in Afghanistan and Iraq - we're fighting extremists there so we don't have to fight them here - has taken a beating of late. In September came the arrest of Najibullah Zazi, the Colorado man accused of plotting perhaps the gravest U.S. terrorist attack since 9/11. November saw Major Nidal Malik Hasan gun down 13 people - including 12 of his fellow U.S. soldiers - at Ford Hood, Texas, in the deadliest assault on a military base in U.S. history. The latest blow came Dec. 7, when the U.S. Justice Department filed new charges...