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• September 11, 2001: America and NATO Declare War on Afghanistan NATO’s Doctrine of Collective Security by Michel Chossudovsky

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 518
  September 11, 2001: America and NATO Declare War on Afghanistan NATO’s Doctrine of Collective Security by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research , December 21, 2009 Why are American and NATO troops in Afghanistan? What is the justification for waging war on a country of 28 million people? What ...
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• Troops get extra time to phone home at Christmas – AFP

  
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  Globe and Mail Troops get extra time to phone home at Christmas AFP LONDON — British troops in Afghanistan are getting an extra hour of free talk time to ring home over the Christmas period, at the end of a year which has seen 106 of their colleagues killed there. Soldiers on operations get 30 ...
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• Queen Elizabeth II praises the Commonwealth – AFP

  
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  BBC News Queen Elizabeth II praises the Commonwealth AFP LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II said the Commonwealth is the "face of the future" in her annual Christmas message on Friday and described 2009 as a "difficult year". The queen said the diversity of its 54 member states and its billion-strong ...
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• FBI probe into arrest of US-origin terror suspects in Pak threatens to alienate US Muslims

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec. 20 (ANI): The arrest of five American Muslim men from Pakistan on terrorism charges has left the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) walking the tight rope, as the probe threatens to undermine the relationship between the FBI and US Muslims.As U.S. officials are mulling over how aggressively to ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Indian among 11 jailed in Spain for terror offences

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec 17 (IANS) An Indian-born father-of-six has been convicted in Spain along with 10 Pakistanis for planning terrorist attacks in Barcelona’s underground train system last year.Mumbai-born Roshan Jamal Khan was among 11 men jailed for up to 14 years by Spain’s anti-terrorism court Monday for plotting to ...
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• NATO seeks more Russian help in Afghanistan

  
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  Moscow, Dec 16 (RIA Novosti) NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday the Western military bloc is seeking greater Russian assistance for international operations in Afghanistan.Speaking to reporters after talks with President Dmitry Medvedev, Rasmussen said he was inviting Russia to step up its ...
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• Anna Kournikova visits the troops in Afghanistan

  
  Guyism sports — Authority: 137
  What Anna Kournikova lacks in overall tennis skill, she certainly makes up for in charitable causes . Kournikova, along with former tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, Billy Ray Cyrus and comedian Dave Attell traveled to Kabul to entertain the troops in the annual USO holiday tour. We don’t know how much ...
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• Iran claims proof of Pak based terror group carrying out attacks against it

  
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  Quetta, Dec. 16 (ANI): Iran has reiterated that it has evidence to prove that the banned terror group Jundullah is using Pakistan’s territory for carrying out its nefarious activities against Tehran.Talking to media persons during a press conference at the Iranian Cultural Centre here, Iran’s Ambassador to ...
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• Gen Petraeus to pressure Pak to ‘do more’ against Afghan Taliban

  
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  Lahore, Dec. 14 (ANI): US Central Command Chief General David Petraeus is aiming to pressure on Pakistan’s civilian and military leadership to do more against the Afghan Taliban operating inside Pakistani territory.“(To make) the really significant progress in Afghanistan that will be necessary over time… it ...
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• Boat crew’s shock as shark gnashes oar

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A surf boat has been attacked by a white pointer shark while on a training run at Hawks Nest, north of Newcastle. The boat was about 400 metres off shore when the sweepers oar was ripped from his hands by the shark - thought to be a juvenile. Surf boat sweeper, Greg Ross says the crew got the shock of their lives. ...
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• Prime Minister visits Afghanistan

  
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  Sorry, you do not appear to have the flash player installed - please use the link below to get it now. The Prime Minister has visited Afghanistan this weekend where he has met British forces and held talks with President Karzai and Afghan authorities. Gordon Brown stayed overnight at Kandahar ...
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• Top Al-Qaeda leader killed in drone strike in northwest Pakistan

  
  World Military Forum - Latest Military News — Authority: 137
  WASHINGTON — A top Al-Qaeda leader was killed in a drone missile strike in northwest Pakistan, NBC News reported late Thursday, citing unnamed US officials. The officials did not identify the person killed, but did tell NBC that it was not Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.The attack took place in...
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• Arrested US men were en route to Pak based Taliban sanctuary for ‘jihad’ training

  
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  New York, Dec. 11 (ANI): Five of the ‘missing’ young US Muslim men, who were apprehended in Pakistan’s Sargodha on Wednesday, were on their way to the Taliban sanctuary being operated in the country’s lawless tribal areas to receive training to fight American troops in Afghanistan, Pakistani officials have ...
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• ‘Arrested Americans had contacted jihadist groups in Pakistan’

  
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  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 11 (IANS) The five Americans arrested in Pakistan had contacted radical jihadist organisations, including two terrorist groups with links to the Al Qaeda, say US media reports citing Pakistani officials.The five, all Muslims from the Alexandria area, a Washington suburb, also had maps and ...
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• Allah, open the doors to heaven!

  
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  Reckon they should be getting REAL close to running outta “virgins” by now.
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• ‘Intolerant’ Pak could help US ‘finish off’ Haqqqani network: McChrystal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec.9 (ANI): General Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, has said that if Pakistan takes stringent action against the Haqqani network inside its territory, dismantling the Al-Qaeda linked group would be a matter of time for the US troops.“If the Pakistan government became ...
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• US missile strike kills three in Pakistan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Islamabad, Dec 8 (DPA) Missiles fired from a US drone hit a car in Pakistan’s restive North Waziristan tribal district Tuesday morning, killing at least three suspected militants, an official said.The attack took place in Spalga village, located 15 km west of Miranshah, the main town of the district that borders ...
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