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		<title>New Medal Of Honor is controversial</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/new-medal-of-honor-is-controversial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NARUTO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1st person shooter game series Medal of Honor allows the player to be a Taliban soldier in multiplayer mode, and even before its release in October, has raised controversy. The U.S. network Fox News has presented the views of a mother whose son was killed in combat in Iraq on the new game from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WikiLeaks shows the real war in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/wikileaks-shows-the-real-war-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>NARUTO</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News + Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=37874</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The founder of the site WikiLeaks, a sort of Wikipedia of leaked files, said on Monday that more than 91,000 secret documents of the U.S. military bring up evidence of war crimes committed during the war in Afghanistan. On Sunday, the site posted thousands of American military records of six years of war against the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: battling over the population’s perception (and losing)</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/afghanistan-battling-over-the-population%e2%80%99s-perception-and-losing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deprivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug dealers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug trade in Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Helmand province]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurgents]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Marjah]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Council on Foreign Relations, Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor of CFR.org, interviews Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, CFR. Boot sums up the Marjah offensive as US troops ‘trying to take out probably the biggest remaining Taliban stronghold in Helmand Province, which has been a safe haven not only for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there really a New Taliban? The hike in US defense budget seems to prove so</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/is-there-really-a-new-taliban-the-hike-in-us-defense-budget-seems-to-prove-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books &amp; Literature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Antonio Giustozzi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gabriela Campos, an intern at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about a compilation of analyses regarding the New Taliban. The book, entitled Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field, is edited by Antonio Giustozzi who is a fellow at the London School of Economics. The book asserts that a stronger Neo-Taliban has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Moshtarak in Afghanistan: ethnic cleansing?</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/operation-moshtarak-in-afghanistan-ethnic-cleansing/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/operation-moshtarak-in-afghanistan-ethnic-cleansing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pashtun population in southern Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=32797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yvonne Ridley, a British Journalist and author of In The Hands of the Taliban, boldly asserts in counterpunch that the huge military offensive codenamed Operation Moshtarak that caused the evacuation of residents in the town of Marjah in Afghanistan is ethnic cleansing. The purported ISAF pacification offensive grandly launched in what is described as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United Nations To Call Back Staff From Pakistan Amid Security Concerns</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/united-nations-to-call-back-staff-from-pakistan-amid-security-concerns/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/united-nations-to-call-back-staff-from-pakistan-amid-security-concerns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajeev 
Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations has announced its intention to recall 60 staff members of the organization that constitute its international staff in Pakistan amid growing security concerns in the country. The withdrawal of the U.N workers will be in effect for six months and will not be applicable to the 2,700 Pakistani nationals, currently serving under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suicide Bomber Claims 5 Victims In Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/suicide-bomber-claims-5-victims-in-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/suicide-bomber-claims-5-victims-in-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rajeev 
Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five people were killed and eighty injured in a suicide bombing that took place outside a Shiite religious gathering in the capital of Kashmir, controlled by Pakistan. The bomber detonated the explosives during a security check at a checkpoint. Of the five killed, two have been identified as part of the police force and most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taliban Return to Northern Afghanistan, previously declared secure</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/taliban-return-to-northern-afghanistan-previously-declared-secure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:22:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[counterinsurgency]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jihad]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[NATO supply route from Central Asia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=30368</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan’s Kunduz province had been earlier evaluated as secure that is why troops were moved to other hotspots. Now, with US and Afghan forces concentrated on the southern regions of Afghanistan, the Taliban have returned to the northern Kunduz province. In fact, ‘the Taliban is now threatening a key route bringing NATO supplies from Central [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Troop Surge in Afghanistan Won&#8217;t Stop Islamist Ideology</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/troop-surge-in-afghanistan-wont-stop-islamist-ideology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://trendsupdates.com/?p=30365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Afghan surge can&#8217;t defeat terrorist ideology, experts say. According to Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, ‘President Obama should have used his speech to declare victory and announce the start of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan instead of an escalation. Even if the surge achieves its immediate mission—at huge cost—the operation won&#8217;t achieve its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Osama bin Laden is in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://trendsupdates.com/osama-bin-laden-is-in-afghanistan/</link>
		<comments>http://trendsupdates.com/osama-bin-laden-is-in-afghanistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>GSerrano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A high-ranking member of the Taliban insurgent group who is now detained in Pakistan says that he was offered a chance to have a meeting with Osama bin Laden in January or February of this year, and ‘that the al-Qaeda leader is in eastern Afghanistan, not northern Pakistan as widely believed.’ This inmate had met [...]]]></description>
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