Word: afghanization
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...casually asked around where I could go and couldn't go. Forget Kandahar, I was told. Even heavy armor is vulnerable to the new improvised explosive devices showing up in Afghanistan. Which means that you can't drive to Herat. Nor can you set foot in another dozen Afghan provinces...
...innocent people are becoming victims of careless operations of NATO and international forces.' HAMID KARZAI, Afghan President, on the increasing number of civilian deaths from NATO- and U.S.-led air strikes in his country. In the past three weeks, more than 90 civilians have been killed in aerial bombings aimed at resurgent Taliban forces in the south and east of the country...
...Number of Afghan civilians killed by NATO and U.S.-led forces so far this year--mainly in air strikes and artillery fire targeting the Taliban--according to an AP tally...
...Number of Afghan civilians killed by the Taliban this year, according to the AP .The U.N. counted slightly more civilians killed by insurgents than by multinational troops...
...Sept. 9, 2001, assassination of Afghan rebel leader Ahmad Shah Massoud is a dark little corner on the early 21st century chessboard. Al-Qaeda's killing of the anti-Taliban commander is often said to have paved the way for 9/11: a pre-emptive elimination of a likely ally of the U.S., which was bound to invade Afghanistan in response to the attacks...