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Afghan road builder's dream thwarted by violence

KABUL—Khalid Khan stares through the dusty window pane, down across the rooftops of the capital, and wonders if they really know where he lives. Once on the front lines of the international effort to rebuild Afghanistan, the black-bearded contractor ...

From TODD PITMAN, Boston Globe,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  Army Corps of Engineers

Afghan future threatened by ex-warlords in gov't

Warlords helped drive the Russians from Afghanistan, then shelled Kabul into ruins in a bloody civil war after the Soviets left. Now they are back in positions of power, in part because the U.S. relied on them in 2001 to help oust the Taliban ...

From TODD PITMAN, eTaiwan News,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  Hamid Karzai,  Ramazan Bashardost,  Abdul Rashid Dostum,  Gordon Brown

W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback

KOURE, Niger A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. The tallest animals on earth are here, the guide says, somewhere amid the scant green ...

From TODD PITMAN, San Diego Union-Tribune,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mamadou Tandja,  Prince Albert II

11/8/2009 -- W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback

In this Aug. 1, 2009 photo, a giraffe from Africa's most endangered giraffe subspecies stands in the bush near Koure, Niger. By all accounts, they should be extinct. Instead, their numbers have quadrupled to 200 since 1996, an unlikely boon experts ...

From TODD PITMAN, Mother Earth News,  8 Nov 2009

West Africa's last giraffes make surprise comeback

KOURE, Niger A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. The tallest animals on earth are here, the guide says, somewhere amid the scant green ...

From TODD PITMAN, San Diego Union-Tribune,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mamadou Tandja,  Prince Albert II

UN re-evaluates Afghan mission after bloody attack

KABUL - Traumatized U.N. staff in Afghanistan were under orders to stay home Thursday, one day after Taliban militants stormed a guest house in the capital and killed eight people in a brazen attack that is forcing the world body to re-evaluate its ...

From TODD PITMAN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  NATO,  Hamid Karzai,  Abdullah Abdullah

Soldier death toll hits high mark in October

of them, killing seven service members and an Afghan civilian, U.S. forces spokesman Lt. Col. Todd Vician said. KABUL -- Roadside bombs -- the biggest killer of U.S. soldiers -- claimed eight more American lives Tuesday, driving the U.S. death toll to ...

From TODD PITMAN, Bennington Banner,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Robert Gibbs,  White House,  Taliban,  Jane Campbell

Afghan capital rocked by gunfire

KABUL - Gunfire is being heard in the heart of the Afghan capital. A large plume of smoke was rising early Wednesday from a downtown area of Kabul and bursts of automatic weapons fire reverberated through the streets. ...

From TODD PITMAN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Taliban,  Robert Gibbs,  White House,  Jane Campbell

October deadliest month for US in Afghan war

KABUL - Roadside bombs - the biggest killer of U.S. soldiers - claimed eight more American lives Tuesday, driving the U.S. ...

From TODD PITMAN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Robert Gibbs,  White House,  Taliban,  Jane Campbell

8 US troops die; Oct. Afghan war's deadliest month

KABUL - Eight American troops were killed in multiple bomb attacks Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, making October the deadliest month of the war for U.S. ...

From TODD PITMAN, Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Taliban,  Drug Enforcement Administration

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