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KABUL -- At least five Iranian companies in Afghanistan's capital are using their offices covertly to finance Taliban militants in provinces near Kabul, according to a Sunday Times investigation. Afghan intelligence and Taliban sources have told the newspaper that the firms, set up in the past six months, provide cash for a network of district Taliban treasurers to pay battlefield expenses and bonuses for killing the enemy and destroying their vehicles. The Iranian companies win contracts to supply materials and logistics to Afghans involved in reconstruction. The money often comes in the form of aid from foreign donors.

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Iraq Government Wants U.S. Troops Out by June 30 [2009-05-04]. (This is the title of the story but as you can see has nothing to do with the actual article) Arlington, VA -- The U.S. Military said that reports from Al Jazeera English that evangelical Christian soldiers in Afghanistan handed out Bibles to local Afghans and operated under instructions from their chaplain to "hunt people for Jesus" grossly misrepresent the truth and that in reality Bibles were confiscated, not handed out. The Al Jazeera broadcast includes a video taken a year ago in which a small group of U.S. Soldiers...

The biggest thing standing between a Muslim woman’s life and death is a tenacious Vancleave soldier on Iraqi soil. Shadia, a 30-year-old with a sweet smile and sparkly personality, searches women before allowing them entrance to the Abu Ghraib warehouse, where Col. Thomas Bruce Cain is the site commander. Her last name can’t be revealed, nor photographs shown, for fear of persecution by others not appreciative of an American presence in their country, Cain said. A tumor is pressing on Shadia’s brain and Iraqi doctors can’t do the surgery that could save her life. Cain couldn’t watch her die,...

PHILADELPHIA - One of the military's new wartime challenges is dealing with global media that can instantly spread around the word information that may be false or damaging to U.S. interests, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Wednesday. The United States needs to respond to anti-American messages with greater agility and speed if it is to win the ideological struggle with Islamic extremists, Rumsfeld said in a speech to members of the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia. "We'll need to develop considerably more sophisticated ways of using these new means of communication that are now available to reach the many and...

While the war continues in the Sunni triangle it is not stopping the progress being made in rebuilding Iraq's infrastructure. The following articles display how we are slowly securing the Iraqi borders and aiding farmers in improving crop yields that have been poor for years. Iraqi border forts strengthen security Baghdad, Iraq – Iraq’s Department of Border Enforcement is beefing up its border defenses with a plan to build or reconstruct more than 300 border forts. Included in the plan is the construction of a command and control structure including 12 brigade headquarters, four sector headquarters, and the national headquarters...