By SPIEGEL Staff

For years, Germans have preferred to see their country’s presence in Afghanistan as armed development assistance. That myth is now becoming more difficult to maintain as the violence spreads to the north where the Germans are based.

This attack killed a German soldier in Kabul. Recently, there have been an increasing number of attacks on Germans in northern Afghanistan.

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2 German soldiers killed by blast in Afghanistan

German soldiers honor their fallen comrades in Zweibrucken, Germany

KABUL, Afghanistan (Map, News) - An Afghan official says a suicide bomber in northern Afghanistan has killed two German soldiers and five children.

The governor of Kunduz province, Mohammad Omar, says two other German soldiers and two children were wounded in the blast Monday.

NATO confirms that some of its soldiers were killed and wounded in the attack in the province’s Chahar Dara district.

Omar says the soldiers were patrolling on foot when the bomber riding a bicycle hit them.

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 PM terms US attacks inside Paksitan terrorism

“PM terms US attacks inside Paksitan terrorism”  ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has termed the US attacks inside Pakistan’s territory as terrorism.Speaking to media persons at Prime Minister House here on Wednesday, Prime Minister Gilani said his government wants to take all the coalition partners on board on national issues. He said war against terrorism is Pakistan’s own war.    Gilani said, “It is government’s responsibility to provide security to foreign diplomats and ambassadors, adding complete security will be provided to them.”

 * Jihad for retards / Iraq: “Al-Qaeda is targeting orphans, street children and mentally disabled children as suicide bomber recruits as well as women”

Pakistani mufti insists that “Islam is a religion of peace and brotherhood and linking terrorism with it is not justified”

British envoy ready to wave the white flag

British envoy says mission in Afghanistan is doomed, according to leaked memo

Insurgents in Afghanistan Are Gaining, Petraeus Says

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* You can’t make this s*#t up:

Ten French soldiers killed by Taliban fighters last month in Afghanistan were woefully ill-equipped, according to a report citing a classified Nato document.

There are nearly 7,000 French and German troops in Afghanistan [EPA]

The “secret” file quoted by a Canadian newspaper said that the French troops ambushed on Aug 18 in a valley east of Kabul did not have enough bullets, radios and other equipment to sustain them through two days of fighting.

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* From the ‘poverty creates terrorism’ department:

HERAT, Afghanistan (AFP) — A Taliban suicide bomber dressed as a beggar blew up an Afghan government building Saturday, killing six people, as two NATO soldiers and a dozen other people died in more unrest, officials said.

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U.S. forces and Afghan police kill over 20 Taliban

Reuters

U.S.-led soldiers, backed by air support, and Afghan police killed more than 20 Taliban fighters in two separate clashes, officials said on Sunday.

A U.S. military statement said its forces killed more than 10 insurgents during an operation in the southeast province of Khost on Saturday, and did not mention any casualties on its side.

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Hamid knows who is to blame: the Brits!

Hamid Karzai blames Britain for Taliban resurgence

 Security analysts in Afghanistan say the situation has become ’even more dire’

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 EU ‘consternation’ over Afghan civilian deaths: Brussels

The News

* These EU-wankers in Brussels are so full of s#*t  it makes you wonder if they still live on the same planet. Lets hope the whole circus explodes anytime soon…

BRUSSELS: The French presidency of the European Union on Monday expressed “consternation” after Afghanistan said that more than 90 civilians were killed in US-led air strikes last week.

Brussels said it had “learnt of the high number of civilian deaths with consternation,” according to a statement.

The Afghan cabinet had earlier demanded a renegotiation of agreements regulating the presence of international troops in Afghanistan, seeking a halt to air strikes on civilians, illegal detentions and unilateral house searches, a statement said.

The US-led coalition says Friday’s strikes were targeted at Taliban rebels and 30 of them were killed, although it is investigating claims of civilian casualties.

“The solution is not only military,” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner also said Monday, eight days after 10 French soldiers were killed during ground fighting in Afghanistan.

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“Wave of suicide bombers” tries to storm US base in eastern Afghanistan

“Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain…” (Qur’an 9:111)

By RAHIM FAIEZ  The Associated Press

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* Traditional Muhammedan warfare. Why is anyone surprised?

Telegraph UK By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent

Taliban forces deliberately used a compound sheltering civilians for an attack that led to British troops bombing the home and killing an Afghan woman and two children, defence sources said.

* Leave or face more deaths, Taliban warns Canada

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Picture of the week: Afghanistan

While the Taliban burn schools and murder aid-workers, there are signs that even soldiers of Allah may have a propensity for the lighter side of life, if only they were free to follow their whims instead of Islam. The balloon man above is is an outstanding example of the entrepreneurial spirit in abject surroundings…

Schools, shops blown up in Swat

The holes of Peshawar…

CHARSADDA/SWAT: Two girls’ primary schools and forty-two CD shops were blown up on Friday. A private TV channel said that Ikram and Qalandar Khan CD markets on Madyan road in Mingora were blown up by unidentified militants. Three bombs exploded in a girls’ primary school near the Swat police station. The school building was completely destroyed, while the nearby buildings of a basic health unit and a tehsil office were damaged. In a separate incident, militants destroyed another girls’ primary school situated on Maichi road in the Shabqadar area. Daily Times