Thursday, October 18, 2012

Afghanistan War News Updates -- October 17, 2012


This Story Of A Seven-Month Afghanistan Deployment Is The Grittiest You Will Ever Read -- Geoffrey Ingersoll and Robert Johnson, Business Insider

The documentary Armadillo follows a platoon of Danish soldiers as they endure a six-month deployment to Afghanistan in what ends up being the bloodiest two years of the war, fought in Helmand, the most dangerous province of the country.

The grunts start off green, inexperienced, unseasoned, even innocent. But as they explore the depths, the frustrations, and the subtle horrors of the cold moral abyss that is the face of combat, they discover things about themselves they never knew, until Afghanistan demanded an answer.

Read more ....

More News On Afghanistan

ISAF Joint Command morning operational update, Oct. 18 -- ISAF
Afghan-led Security Force Arrests Taliban Leader -- US Department of Defense
CIA officer killed in Afghanistan, U.S. official says -- CNN
CIA officer, Army intelligence analyst killed in Afghan attack -- Reuters

Questions Raised in Deaths of Afghan Children in Coalition Strike
-- New York Times
Australia takes command of Oruzgan forces -- Sydney Morning Herald
The Beginning of the End for the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan -- Moderate Voice

Karzai: Afghanistan Ready to Take Over Security -- Voice of America
Karzai: NATO can speed up handover of security -- Army Times/AP
Karzai says Afghan troops would be ready for early transition -- Deutsche Welle
Afghans ready to take over military responsibility from Nato -- Gulf News
US Mulls Troop Presence in Afghanistan After 2014 -- RIA Novosti

Nato chief in surprise visit to Afghanistan
-- Gulf News
North Atlantic Council and Partners Visit Afghanistan -- Defpro
NATO Pledges Continued Support for Afghanistan
-- Voice of America
NATO Strategy and Timeline in Afghanistan Unchanged, Secretary General Says in Kabul -- Defpro
NATO Delegation Visits Kabul -- Radio Free Europe
NATO firm on Afghan drawdown
-- UPI

Afghanistan: Wife Beheaded by In-Laws for Resisting Prostitution -- IBTimes
Amnesty Condemns Reported Beheading In Afghanistan -- Radio Free Europe
Afghan Woman's Beheading Latest In Alarming Trend -- Radio Free Europe

‘Who Are You?’ What it Means to be an Afghan Among Americans -- Abuzar Royesh, Voice of America
Recollecting Ghazni -- Michael Tomberlin, al.com
Seeing Iraq and Afghanistan, Unembedded -- James Estrin, New York Times

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