Saturday, April 9, 2011

Afghanistan War News Updates -- April 9, 2011

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Americans Divided on How Things Are Going in Afghanistan -- Gallop

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans are now about evenly split in their views of how things are going for the United States in Afghanistan, with 47% saying things are going well and 49% saying things are going badly. This marks the first time since July 2009 that fewer than half have said things are going badly.

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More News On Afghanistan

Afghan Police Chief Killed In Militant Attack -- RTT News
Suicide attack hits Afghan army bus in Kabul: police -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Soldier dies year after Afghanistan blast wounds -- BBC
British Soldiers in Afghanistan: nearing the end of the tour -- The Telegraph (Video)
Taliban takes over abandoned US base -- Al Jazeera
Petraeus says al-Qaida not on rise in Afghanistan -- Yahoo News/AP
350 suicide bombers training in North Waziristan -- Long War Journal
U.S.-Pakistan intelligence operations frozen since January -- Reuters
Several hundred Afghans protest Koran burning -- AFP
Finding Insurgent Threats in Afghanistan with SCARE Technology -- Red Orbit
Cynical Karzai inflames radicals -- Christopher Hitchens, Chicago Sun Times
Making sense of the tragedy in Mazar-i Sharif -- Robert Crews, Al Jazeera

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