Archive for February, 2010

Feb 21 2010

Outgunned Taliban mounting tough fight in Marjah (AP)

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Outgunned Taliban mounting tough fight in Marjah
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U.S. Sgt. U.S. Ryan Mack, 25, from Defiance, Ohio, spotter at left, talks at the radio as Spc. Thomas Leuthold, 20, from Hills, Minn. sniper takes aim, as all of the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division,  faces Taliban insurgents during a firefight in the Badula Qulp area, West of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP – Outnumbered and outgunned, Taliban fighters are mounting a tougher fight than expected in Marjah, Afghan officials said Sunday, as U.S.-led forces converged on a pocket of militants in a western section of the town.

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Feb 20 2010

Live From Washington! It’s Obama health care drama (AP)

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Live From Washington! It’s Obama health care drama
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President Barack Obama speaks to Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce in Las Vegas, Friday, Feb. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Isaac Brekken)AP – Coming soon to daytime television: America’s long-running civic drama over how to provide better health care to more of its people without breaking the bank.

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Feb 19 2010

Woods heads back to therapy after speech (AP)

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Woods heads back to therapy after speech
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Tiger Woods practices golf outside his home Thursday, Feb. 18, 2010, in Windermere, Fla. Woods plans to make a statement late Friday morning in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Sam Greenwood, Pool)AP – Tiger Woods will return to therapy after he ends a three-month silence and speaks about his infidelity and his future plans.

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Feb 18 2010

Missionaries freed by Haitian judge land in US (AP)

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Missionaries freed by Haitian judge land in US
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From right: Paul Thompson, 43, of Twin Falls, Idaho, Steve McMullin,  56, of Twin Falls, Idaho  and Drew Culberth, 34, of Topeka, Kansas, Carla Thompson, 53, and Corinna Lankford, of Meridian, Idaho, left arrive at the Miami International Airport Hotel in Miami, Thursday, Feb 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)AP – Eight American missionaries freed by a Haitian judge landed in Miami early Thursday, nearly three weeks after the group was charged with kidnapping for trying to take 33 children out of the quake-stricken country.

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Feb 16 2010

Bayh the latest exit as moderates leave Congress (AP)

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Bayh the latest exit as moderates leave Congress
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In this July 24, 2006 file photo Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind. speaks in Denver.   Bayh, a prominent Democrat who has been mentioned prominently in connection with White House sweepstakes in recent years, is ready to announce he will not seek re-election, a Democratic official said Monday.  (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)AP – The moderate middle is disappearing from Congress. Evan Bayh is just the latest senator to forgo a re-election bid, joining a growing line of pragmatic, find-a-way politicians who are abandoning Washington. Still here: ever-more-polarized colleagues locked in gridlock — exactly what voters say they don’t like about politics in the nation’s capital.

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Feb 15 2010

Taliban step up attacks in besieged Afghan town (AP)

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Taliban step up attacks in besieged Afghan town
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U.S. soldiers exchange fire with insurgents as Afghan soldiers run for cover during a firefight with insurgents in the Badula Qulp area, west of Lashkar Gah  in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010.  The soldiers are operating in support of a U.S. Marine offensive against the Taliban in Marjah area. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)AP – Taliban fighters stepped up counterattacks Monday against Marines and Afghan soldiers in the militant stronghold of Marjah, slowing the allied advance to a crawl despite Afghan government claims that the insurgents are broken and on the run.

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Feb 14 2010

NATO rockets miss target, kill 12 Afghan civilians (AP)

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NATO rockets miss target, kill 12 Afghan civilians
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In this photo released by Britain's Ministry of Defense, members of the F Company (Fire Support) 1 Royal Welsh take position during operation 'Moshtarak' Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, near Marjah, in Afghanistan's Helmand province. British troops are among the thousands of NATO and Afghan soldiers who stormed the Taliban stronghold of Marjah by air and ground Saturday. (AP Photo/Ministry of Defense, Cpl. Joe Blogs)AP – Twelve Afghans died Sunday when two rockets fired at insurgents missed their target and struck a house during the second day of NATO’s most ambitious effort yet to break the militants’ grip on the country’s dangerous south.

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Feb 14 2010

NATO rockets miss target, kill 12 Afghan civilians (AP)

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NATO rockets miss target, kill 12 Afghan civilians
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In this photo released by Britain's Ministry of Defense, members of the F Company (Fire Support) 1 Royal Welsh take position during operation 'Moshtarak' Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, near Marjah, in Afghanistan's Helmand province. British troops are among the thousands of NATO and Afghan soldiers who stormed the Taliban stronghold of Marjah by air and ground Saturday. (AP Photo/Ministry of Defense, Cpl. Joe Blogs)AP – Twelve Afghans died Sunday when two rockets fired at insurgents missed their target and struck a house during the second day of NATO’s most ambitious effort yet to break the militants’ grip on the country’s dangerous south.

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Feb 14 2010

NATO rockets miss target, kill 12 Afghan civilians (AP)

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NATO rockets miss target, kill 12 Afghan civilians
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In this photo released by Britain's Ministry of Defense, members of the F Company (Fire Support) 1 Royal Welsh take position during operation 'Moshtarak' Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010, near Marjah, in Afghanistan's Helmand province. British troops are among the thousands of NATO and Afghan soldiers who stormed the Taliban stronghold of Marjah by air and ground Saturday. (AP Photo/Ministry of Defense, Cpl. Joe Blogs)AP – Twelve Afghans died Sunday when two rockets fired at insurgents missed their target and struck a house during the second day of NATO’s most ambitious effort yet to break the militants’ grip on the country’s dangerous south.

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Feb 13 2010

Taliban claim they retain control of Marjah (AP)

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Taliban claim they retain control of Marjah
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In this handout photo released by Ministry of Defence via PA, soldiers of the 1st Battalion the Royal Welsh in line make there way onto the helicopters on mass as they prepare for Operation Moshtarak in Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010. British troops were today engaged in fierce fighting with the Taliban in southern Afghanistan as the military operation got under way. U.S.-led airstrikes began as dawn broke in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah in Helmand Province where up to 1,000 insurgents are believed to be holed up. (AP Photo/Ministry of Defence via PA, SSGt Will Craig)AP – A Taliban spokesman says the Afghan insurgents are still in control of the southern town of Marjah amid ongoing fighting with NATO and Afghan forces.

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