Afghanistan War News Updates -- March 12, 2011

PATROL PALS - U.S. Special Forces soldiers and Afghan commandos pass a group of Afghan women and children during an operation to hinder insurgent activity in the Zharay district in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, March 6, 2011. The soldiers are assigned to Special Operations Task Force South. The Afghan-led operation yielded 200 pounds of homemade explosives. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Daniel P. Shook

End Operations In Afghanistan, Karzai Tells NATO -- Channel News Asia

ASADABAD, Afghanistan: Emotional Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday urged international troops to "stop their operations in our land", his strongest salvo yet in a row over mistaken civilian killings.

Karzai's comments came after a week in which a relative of his was killed in a raid by foreign forces and he rejected an apology by the US commander of troops General David Petraeus for the deaths of nine children in a NATO strike.

"I would like to ask NATO and the US with honour and humbleness and not with arrogance to stop their operations in our land," Karzai said, visiting the dead children's relatives in Kunar province, eastern Afghanistan.

"We are very tolerant people but now our tolerance has run out."

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More News On Afghanistan

End operations in Afghanistan, Karzai says -- Straits Times
NATO and US should stop their operations in Afghanistan: Karzai -- M&C
End operations in Afghanistan, Karzai tells NATO -- Space War
End NATO operations in Afghanistan: Karzai -- Yahoo News/ANI

NATO says 2 service members killed in bombing in southern Afghanistan -- Canadian Press/AP
ISAF kills, captures IMU leaders in Afghan north -- The Long War Journal
Afghan Taliban Claims Killing Kunduz Police Chief in Suicide Bombing -- SITE
Airstrike in Afghanistan Kills Terrorist Leaders -- US Department of Defense
Troops Expand Security in Eastern Afghanistan -- US Department of Defense
Forces kill insurgents, capture terrorists in Afghanistan -- War On Terror News
ISAF Joint Command morning operational update for March 12, 2011-- Dvids
NATO Cites Afghan Advances Before Security Transfer to Karzai -- Bloomberg
NATO OKs 6 Afghan areas for handover -- CBC
NATO releases detainees nabbed in raid that killed Afghan president’s cousin -- Toronto Star
Canada looks to employ local militias in Kandahar -- CTV News

Labour 'cut corners' in Helmand says widow of most senior officer killed by Taliban -- The Daily Mail
Af-Pak border epicentre of terrorism: Mullen -- Economic Times
Mascot Dogs of American Combat Outposts -- New York Times
Afghanistan's historic Bamiyan Buddhas won't be rebuilt: UNESCO -- Yahoo News/ANI
Winning Hearts While Flattening Vineyards Is Rather Tricky -- New York Times
Update on Afghanistan -- Peter Wehner, Commentary