| May 16, 2005 |
| By: the Office of the Spokesman to the President |
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| Presidential Palace, Kabul - The Office of the Spokesperson to the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan expresses displeasure at hearing the acknowledgement by the Newsweek Magazine of factual error in their reporting of the alleged desecration of the Holy Quran by US soldiers in the Guantanamo Bay prison. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: AFP |
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| LONDON, May 16 (AFP) - Deadly protests in Afghanistan against the reported desecration of the Koran by US officials were the work of extremists opposed to the country's reconstruction, Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah said Monday. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: Xinhua |
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| LONDON, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Britain will hold a Donors Conference in June aimed at raising funds for helping rebuild Afghanistan, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Monday. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: By Howard Kurtz - The Washington Post |
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| Newsweek apologized yesterday for an inaccurate report on the treatment of detainees that triggered several days of rioting in Afghanistan and other countries in which at least 15 people died. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: Lailuma Sadid Pajhwok Afghan News |
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| KABUL - With three days left for the registration of candidates for the September parliamentary elections, no female candidates have nominated themselves in Uruzgan and Panjshir province. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: Ben Arnoldy - The Christian Science Monitor |
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| KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - As the international community searches high and low to find alternative livelihoods for poppy farmers, one answer may be growing right under their noses. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| Pajhwok Afghan News |
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| BALK, May 16, (Pajhwok Afghan News) -- Provincial officials in northern Balkh say due to the lack of equipment and manpower they have been unable to reach their targeted goal of eradicating all poppy fields in northern Balk, before the poppy harvest in summer. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: AFP |
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| HONG KONG (AFP) - The arrest of Al-Qaeda operative Abu Faraj al-Libbi has failed to provide any clues on Osama bin Laden's whereabouts, Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf was quoted as saying. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: MAR ROMAN |
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| MADRID, Spain - A war correspondent with the Arab satellite television station Al-Jazeera denied charges Monday that he had close ties to the alleged leader of a Spanish al-Qaida cell accused of helping plot the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
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| Thomas Cook Al Rostamani has established the first legal money transfer system to Afghanistan from the UAE. There are more than 200,000 Afghanis living in the UAE. The agreement with the Afghanistan International Bank was signed last week. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: STEPHEN GRAHAM |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) Muslims in Afghanistan gave Washington three days to offer a response to a Newsweek story that claimed the Islamic holy book was desecrated at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, but the magazine apologized Sunday for the report, which prompted deadly riots across Afghanistan last week. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: Pajhwok Afghan News |
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| KABUL, May 16, (Pajhwok Afghan News) -- A former radical Mujahideen leader has condemned the alleged desecration of the Koran at a US military prison at Guantanamo bay camp in Cuba. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| Pajhwok Afghan News |
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| KABUL, May 16, (Pajhwok Afghan News) -- Influential Afghan spiritual leader and the leader of the former leading Jihadi party, Pir Sayed Ahmad Gailani, has condemned the recent violence sparked throughout Afghanistan by reports of the desecration of the Holy Koran at a US detention center at Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba, but backed peaceful protest against an alleged act of irreverence and encouraged Afghans to exercise their rights to express themselves freely. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: AFP |
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| KABUL, May 16 (AFP) - The US military in Afghanistan vowed Monday to redouble its efforts to win the trust and respect of Afghans after protests at the reported desecration of the Koran left 14 people dead last week. "Fundamental to our ability to win the war here is to win the trust and confidence and the respect of the Afghan people." said Colonel Gary Cheek. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: Robert Birsel |
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| KABUL, May 16 (Reuters) - Afghan guerrillas are still launching attacks from the safety of neighbouring Pakistan despite the Pakistani military's battle against Islamic militants, a U.S. army officer said on Monday. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: AP |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) A land mine packed with additional explosives exploded under a vehicle carrying government militia troops in southeastern Afghanistan, killing two of the soldiers and injuring five others, the U.S. military said Monday. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: Xinhua |
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| KABUL, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Three policemen have been injured as infighting broke out in northwest Afghanistan's Faryab province, sources said Monday. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: Christian Science Monitor |
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| KABUL, AFGHANISTAN -- As the international community searches for alternative livelihoods for poppy farmers, one answer may be growing right under their noses. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: Scott Baldauf, The Christian Science Monitor |
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| KABUL, Afghanistan — A U.S., European and Afghan initiative has cleared 80% of the opium plants from one province. Last year at this time, the southeastern Afghan province of Nangrahar was covered with pink and white poppies, producing a quarter of the nation's opium crop. This year, after President Hamid Karzai announced a jihad or holy war against drugs, Nangrahar is almost 80% free of poppies. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: Interfax |
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| DUSHANBE. May 16 (Interfax) - Russian border guards continue transferring control over sections of the Tajik-Afghan border to Tajik colleagues. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: Pajhwok Afghan News |
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| GHAZNI, May 16, (Pajhwok Afghan News) -- Teachers from provincial schools earlier funded by the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA), in the southern province of Ghazni complain that they haven’t received their salaries since the agency handed over the schools to the Afghan government. |
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| May 16, 2005 |
| By: Wagma Saba Amir |
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| PESHAWAR, May 16, (Pajhwok Afghan News): The return of Afghan cinematographers who fled the country will revive cinema that was paralyzed by decades of civil war said an Afghan cinematographer living in Pakistan, Sunday. |
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