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The Taliban on Wednesday executed Haji Mullah Achakzai, the police chief of the Badghis province near Herat, Afghanistan.... The insurgents have been on the lookout for Achakzai who long-fought the Taliban alongside the Afghan civil government which fell as the insurgents took control of the nation....

New military school gives officers new tools Course in Iraq challenges conventional tactics, stresses cultural awareness TAJI, Iraq - If the U.S. effort in Iraq ultimately is successful, one reason may be the small school started recently on a military base here by Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the U.S. commander in Iraq. Called the COIN Academy -- using military shorthand for "counterinsurgency" -- the newest educational institution in the U.S. military establishment seeks, as a course summary puts it, to "stress the need for U.S. forces to shift from a conventional warfare mindset" to one that understands how...

"I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history." (Sen. John Kerry, Remarks At The UNITY 2004 Conference, Washington, D.C., 8/5/04)LEARN MORE ABOUT KERRY/EDWARDS' SHIFTING POSITIONS AT WWW.KERRYONIRAQ.COM