A LOOK BACK AT THE SOVIET EXPERIENCE IN AFGHANISTAN (MUST SEE VIDEO)

The United States and its forces have been waging war in Afghanistan for nine years and this video shows what happened to the Soviet Union forces after ten years in Afghanistan.

This video is a must see for all those questioning what we are doing in Afghanistan.

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MARINES IN VIOLENT FIREFIGHT AGAINST TALIBAN (LIVE VIDEO)

This is a new video and shows U.S. Marines in a violent firefight with the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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AFGHANISTAN: WORSE THAN A NIGHTMARE

Read what New York Times columnist Bob Herbert has to say about the Afghanistan war.

It is not a pretty picture.

The war in Afghanistan is going nowhere and it is a waste of money and human treasure.

President Obama has made a HORRIBLE mistake in expanding the war in Afghanistan.

The mainstream news media in the United States no longer covers the Afghanistan war. They call it "Afghanistan fatigue." The mainstream press says NOBODY in the United States, except those with a loved one in Afghanistan, gives a damn about the Afghanistan war.

Read more what Bob Herbert of the New York Times has to say in his column here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/opinion/26herbert.html

BREAKING NEWS: TALIBAN COMMANDER DISGUISED AS WOMAN SHOT DEAD

Military: Taliban commander, disguised as woman, shot dead

By the CNN Wire Staff
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Slain militant was Taliban commander in Logar province
Three civilians injured when grenade detonated
Insurgents, NATO-led service member killed

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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- A Taliban commander disguised as a woman was shot dead Friday night in Afghanistan when he fired at troops, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.

Authorities identified the man as Ghulam Sakhi, the senior Taliban commander in northern Logar province.

ISAF said intelligence sources tracked Sakhi to a compound near the village of Qal-eh Saber in Pul-e 'Alam district.

After Afghan troops called for women and children to leave a building, Sakhi came out with the group, disguised in women's attire.

ISAF said he pulled out a pistol and a grenade and fired at troops.

Afghan and coalition forces shot him and he dropped the grenade, which detonated and wounded a woman and two children.

Authorities say Sakhi was involved in improvised explosive device attacks, ambushes and indirect fire attacks. He also kidnapped and killed a National Directorate of Security chief in Logar province.

In other Afghan fighting, several insurgents in Zabul province were killed in a "precision airstrike" on Friday night and bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan killed three NATO-led service member on Saturday.

EDITORIAL COMMENT: THE NEWS MEDIA IN THE UNITED STATES STILL FEELS NONE OF THIS IS WORTH REPORTING.

BODIES FOUND BEHEADED: 4 U.S. TROOPS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN

Bodies found beheaded in Afghanistan; 4 troops die
Sat Jun 26, 12:00 am ET

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KABUL, Afghanistan – Four American troops were reported killed and the bodies of 11 Afghan men, some beheaded, were found in rising violence across Afghanistan.

Mohammad Khan, deputy police chief in Uruzgan province, said a villager in the Bagh Char area of Khas Uruzgan district spotted the bodies Friday in a field and called police.

"They were killed because the Taliban said they were spying for the government, working for the government," he said.

The acting Uruzgan governor, Khudia Rahim, said five or six of the 11 victims had been beheaded.

NATO reported two U.S. service members were killed in insurgent attacks Friday in eastern Afghanistan, one American died Friday in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, and a fourth U.S. troop died in a roadside bombing Thursday in southern Afghanistan.

Their deaths brought to 84 the number of international service members killed so far in June, which is already the deadliest month of the nearly nine-year-old war. At least 50 were Americans.

Also in the south, a joint force of Afghan and international troops killed a midlevel Taliban commander and other insurgents Thursday who were planting a roadside bomb near the provincial capital of Kandahar province, NATO said. Some of the insurgents were killed by a coalition airstrike, NATO said.

It said the Taliban commander, Faizullah, was responsible for roadside bomb attacks in the Arghandab district of Kandahar and is believed to have killed at least one coalition soldier in March.

The coalition is ramping up security in and around Kandahar, the largest city in the south, in an effort to drive out insurgents and bring the area under the control of the central Afghan government in Kabul.
In Khost province, another joint force captured an alleged operative of the Haqqani network, an al-Qaida-linked arm of the Taliban. Afghan and international forces have been involved in intense engagements with the Haqqani network along the border of Khost and Paktia provinces.

Several insurgent commanders have been killed during operations, NATO said.

PREVIEW OF MUCH TALKED ABOUT DOCUMENTARY, "RESTREPO," ABOUT AFGHANISTAN WAR

The National Geographic documentary, "Restrepo", has already won an award at the Sundance Film Festival and in this post you get to see a preview of the documentary which traces the steps of a U.S. Army platoon in the dangerous and unforgiving Korengal Valley, Afghanistan.

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