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This site gets much traffic from all around the world, from people searching for news from Iraq, making it an ideal place to host stories from deployed forces in harm’s way.  In my travels I’ve met many budding writers who are now wearing boots and carrying rifles, and I found their stories so compelling that I want the world to see.

Taliban urges next Canadian prime minister to pull troops out of Afghanistan

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Published: Tuesday, 09 September 2008 20:11
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban say they know that an election campaign is underway in Canada and that's why they have stepped up attacks against Canadians in Afghanistan.

Taliban spokesman Qari Muhammad Yussef said Tuesday the insurgent movement wants Canada's next prime minister to pull Canadian troops out of Afghanistan.

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Shift in forces to Afghanistan less than requested

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Published: Tuesday, 09 September 2008 20:05
Written by Jim Mannion

The modest shift in US forces to Afganistan announced Tuesday by President George W. Bush falls short of his commanders' requests despite signs the seven year-old US-NATO project there is at risk.

While conditions have improved in Iraq, Bush admitted that things have not gone so well in Afghanistan, shaken by an increasingly bloody insurgency fueled from safe havens in Pakistan. Click here to read the entire article by Jim Mannion in Yahoo News.

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Joe Galloway: Farewell to an American Hero

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Published: Thursday, 21 August 2008 20:00
Written by Joseph L. Galloway

Sadly, as I wait in an airport departure lounge, just days before returning to combat, a message came from Joe Galloway. And so, as I sit here reading Joe's latest column, I am less saddened than uplifted to know that such Americans as "Too Tall" Ed Freeman still exist. As I board my plane for Afghanistan, Too Tall gets to go to heaven. God Speed "Too Tall" Freeman!

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Al Qaeda At 20 Dead Or Alive? -- Washington Post

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Published: Monday, 18 August 2008 20:13
Written by Peter Bergen

August 17, 2008

Al Qaeda At 20 Dead Or Alive?
By Peter Bergen

Two decades after al-Qaeda was founded in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar by Osama bin Laden and a handful of veterans of the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan, the group is more famous and feared than ever. But its grand project -- to transform the Muslim world into a militant Islamist caliphate -- has been, by any measure, a resounding failure.

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America Supports You: Radio Program Hosts Freedom Walk Talk

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Published: Saturday, 16 August 2008 00:38
Written by Samantha L. Quigley


By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2008 – Listeners who log on to listen to Stardust Radio’s “Talking with Heroes” program on Aug. 17 will learn how they can honor veterans past and present and commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The show’s host, Bob Calvert, will welcome Roxie Merritt, spokeswoman for the Defense Department’s America Supports You program and director of New Media and Community Relations for the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Merritt’s community relations staff is responsible for organizing this year’s fourth annual National America Supports You Freedom Walk here while hundreds of others are being planned nationwide and overseas.

“It means so much to our troops serving all over the world to see this kind of support coming from their communities,” Merritt said. “The military, in a lot of ways, is about community, and local actions like this have a huge impact on morale.”

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