Posts Tagged ‘Afghanistan’
Geez, I’m embarased that this has been the first blog post in about a week. Admittedly, Minneapolis’ school board primary elections are coming up, and profiling six of NINE candidates has kinda eaten up my week, but still. So many interesting things to flap my digital jaw about.
This week saw the third major suicide bomning [...]
Remember the combat outpost attacked a few days ago, and almost overrun?
This one?
It looks like we’ve been pushed out of that district in Nuristan, because US and Afghan troops are pulling out. Carlotta Gall of the NYTimes (*heart!*) mentions this in the above-linked story:
“The American and Afghan army soldiers had moved into the base at [...]