Thursday, July 5, 2012

Afghanistan War News Updates -- July 5, 2012

U.S. Soldiers serving in Afghanistan with the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, make an Independence Day toast over a special holiday treat of pizzas and non-alcoholic beers. Brig. Gen. Paul Funk, the 1st Infantry Division's deputy.

Troops Celebrate Fourth Of July In Afghanistan -- www.Army.mil

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (July 4, 2012) -- It's the Fourth of July again, and for the 11th year in a row, U.S. troops are finding a way to celebrate the holiday in Afghanistan.

In the mountainous provinces of the coalition's Regional Command-East, roughly 20,000 Soldiers are thousands of miles from the care-free rituals of Independence Day. Here there are neither cook-outs nor parades. But there is the day itself, and it's the little things that, at least for a moment, bring these Soldiers closer to home.

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More News On Afghanistan

ISAF Joint Command morning operational update, July 5 -- ISAF
War In Afghanistan News - 5 July 2012 -- War On Terror News
3 days of violence 5 Nato soldiers among 148 killed in Afghanistan -- Pakistan Observer
Deadly Blasts at Afghan Oil and Gas Depot -- New York Times
Army head defends Afghanistan role in wake of deadly attacks -- Wales Online

First NATO trucks cross Pakistan border -- AP
After long closure, NATO supplies enter Afghanistan from Pakistan -- Reuters
Pakistan: Resumed NATO Shipments Crossing Into Afghanistan -- Voice of America

Afghanistan schoolgirls: poisoned or mass hysteria? -- MSNBC
As foreign aid dries up, Afghan NGOs fight to survive -- Reuters
Billions of dollars for Afghanistan -- The Australian
Afghanistan: how the US army battled it out with the British -- The Guardian
U.S. Official: 'Narrow Priorities' in Afghanistan -- John T. Bennett, US News and World Report
Face of Defense: Marine ‘Has the Blues’ in Afghanistan -- US Department of Defense
Vladimir Putin's Realism on NATO and Afghanistan -- Mark Adomanis, Forbes
Afghanistan: the war within a war -- Julian Borger, The Guardian

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