By Saladin on News from www.nytimes.com
Stirred up by a trio of angry mullahs who urged them to avenge the burning of a Koran at a Florida church, thousands of protesters overran the compound of the United Nations in this northern Afghan city, killing at least 12 people, Afghan and United Nations officials said. 
By TheMuslimAgorist on News from www.examiner.com
DynCorp is the US corporation contracted by the US government to train the Afghan Police force. Reportedly 95% of its $2 billion annual revenue comes from taxpayers. Well, some of that money was flowing into a child prostitution ring. 
By MuslimVoices on Politics from muslimvoices.org
Palace officials told Reuters that Afghan president Hamid Karzai voted for a female Hindu candidate in Saturday's election. 
By Saladin on Politics from english.aljazeera.net
Nato has admitted that it killed Afghan civilians when battling the Taliban in the east of the country. 
By crium22 on Islam and Religion from www.bbc.co.uk
By Saladin on Politics from seattletimes.nwsource.com
In the frantic last hours of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's command in Afghanistan, when the world wondered what was racing through the general's mind, he reached out to an unlikely corner of his life: the author of the book "Three Cups of Tea," Greg Mortenson. 
By IslamOnline on Politics from www.islamonline.net
CAIRO — The US military is training a new all-female team to roam restive cities across war-ravaged Afghanistan to court local women, as part of a larger American strategy to win the hearts and the minds of the locals. 
By IslamOnline on Politics from www.islamonline.net
Scores of Afghan civilians, including women and a child, have been killed in a NATO airstrike, dealing a major blow to US-led efforts to win Afghan hearts and minds. 
By l0gikal on Images from www.sacbee.com
An international conference on Afghanistan will likely endorse a program to lure Taliban fighters to lay down their weapons, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Monday. Britain will host talks Thursday in London regarding strategy in Afghanistan, including the Afghan government's plan to pay Taliban fighters return to mainstream society. He told reporters it is "right to believe that over the long-term we can split the Taliban" and encourage many of those waging war against international troops to stop. Afghan President Hamid Karzai, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and foreign ministers will attend the talks. They will discuss rapidly increasing the size of the Afghan police force and army and creating a tentative timetable for international troops to hand over security to local forces. 
By IslamOnline on Everything Else from www.islamonline.net
GHAZNI, Afghanistan – Worried by the growing phenomenon of drug addiction in their remote Afghan region, villagers in the eastern Qarabagh district in Ghazni province have come with a novel idea to eradicate the habit; kicking out addicts.. 
