Word: afghanization
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...took all of 30 minutes. On June 13, Taliban forces sent two suicide bombers into a prison in the southern Afghan town of Kandahar; they were followed by 30 motorcyle-riding militants, who systematically broke down every cell door in the jail. The audacious raid freed an estimated 400 Taliban fighters, and many of them appear to have gone right to work. Within three days, hundreds of insurgents swarmed through the key district of Arghandab - and escaped prisoners were among them, says district chief Ghulam Farouq. As the Taliban gained a footing in the villages, NATO and Afghan army troops...
...increase agricultural productivity," says Andrew Natsios, former chief of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and now a professor of international development at Georgetown University. A more flexible approach could dramatically improve the world's ability to feed itself. As proof, Natsios cites a USAID project that sent Afghan farmers a genetically modified wheat strain immediately after the Taliban's defeat in 2002, resulting in a massive harvest that year. "Farmers told me it was a miracle of Allah," he says...
...children and adolescents. The agency asked for - and got - an expanded warning that included young adults ages 18 to 24, the age group at the heart of the Army. The question now is whether there is a link between the increased use of the drugs in the Iraqi and Afghan theaters and the rising suicide rate in those places. There have been 164 Army suicides in Afghanistan and Iraq from the wars' start through 2007, and the annual rate there is now double the service's 2001 rate...
...that could help defend these tiny villages. His men could easily take the Taliban checkpoint where the farmers are harassed, but for how long? As soon as his company withdrew up the road to Forward Operating Base Zeebrugge, the Taliban would return. A police post would help, or an Afghan National Army presence. These things are coming...
...Saad Mohseni, director of Tolo TV, has refused, calling the ban illegal and ill-defined. He may eventually have to acquiesce, although he has plenty of other programs to fill the gap. Tolo already airs the terror-themed Hollywood drama 24, while a Korean mini-series and an Afghan-made soap opera have proved popular. So, it's not the ratings effect of dropping Tulsi that worries him, Mohseni says; it's the precedent. "Is this going to cut back on what we enjoy, freedom of expression? The Indian shows go first, then they ban music, then women...