Few hours after a bloody raid on a police station that left 22 people dead, three Afghan soldiers were killed in a fresh raid in southern Kabul, as an American military spokesman said a U.S.-led base came under rocket attack over the weekend in the war-scarred country.
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Some 20 months after the fall of the Taliban, members of the militia continue to launch regular attacks on the U.S.-led forces and government and foreign targets, particularly in the south and southeast which was its former heartland.
But anti-American and anti-government sentiments are also rising among local inhabitants who are angry at the slow pace of reconstruction process in the war-shattered country.
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A non-violent, counter-dominant, left-liberal, possibly charismatic, quasi anarcho-libertarian Quaker's take on politics, volleyball, and other esoterica.
Lo alecha ha-m'lacha ligmor, v'lo atah ben chorin l'hibateyl mimenah.
Cairo wonders when I'll be fair
and balanced and go throw sticks...