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(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File) Portions of this article are adapted from The Violence All Around , forthcoming from Harvard University Press. It was ten years ago this month, on February 4, 2002, that the CIA first used an unmanned Predator drone...
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Joint Command's press desk told LWJ that the lack of reporting on raids against al Qaeda and the IMU "should not be misinterpreted as lack of operational rigor against those entities," but would not disclose whether any raids against those groups had...
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In this undated photo provided by the Oklahoma National Guard, 26-year-old Spc. Christopher Gailey of Ochelata, Okla. , is shown. The U.S. Department of Defense announced Wednesday that Gailey and 19-year-old Pfc. Sarina Butcher of Checotah, Okla. ,... View Photo »
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Jan. 30, 2012 An Afghan and coalition security force captured an al-Qaida facilitator in the Gardez district of Afghanistan’s Paktia province today, military officials reported. The facilitator coordinated insurgent activity t and provided reports to...
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Sgt. Alessandro Leonard Plutino, known to all who knew him as “Sandrino,” was killed in action last Aug. 8 in the Paktia province of Afghanistan during small arms fire while in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Alessandro Plutino, an Army...
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"He is our guide and we are obligated to obey his orders. But if he makes a decision against Islam we won't follow him and he wouldn't be our guide anymore."A commander from Paktia province, also in the east, said peace would be acceptable only if...
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In this undated photo provided by the Oklahoma National Guard, 19-year-old Pfc. Sarina Butcher of Checotah, Okla. is shown. The U.S. Department of Defense announced Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011 that Butcher and 26-year-old Spc. Christopher Gailey of Ochelata... View Photo »
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PAKTIA PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Jan. 17, 2012 Staff Sgt. Corrie Walden spent eight months of her first two years in the Air Force assigned to Shaw Air Force Base, S.C. Air Force Staff Sgt. Corrie Walden uses a multi-meter to troubleshoot a vehicle in...
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Taliban spokesman Zahibullan Muhajid claimed credit on the terror group's website, Voice of Jihad, for the "martyr operation" in Paktika. "Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate, armed with explosive vests and heavy and small arms, stormed the department of...
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Paktia (Pashto: پکتيا) ( Persian پکتيا) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, in the east of the country. Its capital is Gardez. The Population is 80% Pashtun and 20% Tajik. Full Article
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An Afghan fighter loyal to Padsha Khan watches through binoculars in a battle against the troops of rival warlord Said Ullah outside Gardez city of Paktia province, southeastern Afghanistan 31 Janaury 2002. Forces loyal to the incoming governor of Paktia province were routed by a rival...
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US army First Sergeant Dave Hudson from Bravo company 7/158th Aviation Regiment mans a machine gun aboard a Chinook helicopter transporting troops to Front Operation Base Lightning in Gardez district Paktia province on July 1, 2011. The process of handing control from foreign to Afghan...
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An injured Afghan woman, a victim of a suicide blast, lies in a hospital bed in Garduz city in Paktia province Afghanistan, Saturday, June 25, 2011. A suicide bomber blew up his sport utility vehicle outside a small clinic in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, bringing the building down...
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In this undated photo provided by the Oklahoma National Guard, 26-year-old Spc. Christopher Gailey of Ochelata, Okla. , is shown. The U.S. Department of Defense announced Wednesday that Gailey and 19-year-old Pfc. Sarina Butcher of Checotah, Okla. , died Tuesday when their vehicle was...
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In this undated photo provided by the Oklahoma National Guard, 19-year-old Pfc. Sarina Butcher of Checotah, Okla. is shown. The U.S. Department of Defense announced Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011 that Butcher and 26-year-old Spc. Christopher Gailey of Ochelata died Tuesday when their vehicle...
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This image released by the Oklahoma National guard shows Sgt. Bret D. Isenhower, 26, of Lamar, Okla. According to the Oklahoma National Guard, Isenhower was killed in Paktia province, Afghanistan, on Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, when enemy forces attacked his unit, the 1st Battalion, 279th...
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An Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Spc. Dennis G. Jensen as a transfer case containing the remains of Spc. Joshua M. Seals sits on a loader Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Jensen, 21, of...
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Transfer cases containing the remains of Army Spc. Joshua M. Seals, left case, and Army Spc. Dennis G. Jensen sit on a loader during a prayer Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Seals, 21, of Porter, Okla. , died Aug. 16, 2011 in...
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ARLINGTON, VA - AUGUST 09: Linda Schumann (3rd L) and Clay Schumann (2nd L), parents of the late Army Spc. Jordan C. Schumann of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, are presented with the flag that was covering his casket by Acting Commanding General of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Major Gen....
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ARLINGTON, VA - AUGUST 09: Sarah Schumann (R), widow of the late Army Spc. Jordan C. Schumann of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, wipes tears during his funeral August 9, 2011 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Spc. Schumann, who was assigned to the 709th Military Police...
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ARLINGTON, VA - AUGUST 09: Members of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Regiment 'The Old Guard' escort the caisson that carries the flag-draped casket of the late Army Spc. Jordan C. Schumann of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, to his final resting place during his funeral August 9, 2011 at...
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ARLINGTON, VA - AUGUST 09: Friends and family members attend the funeral of the late Army Spc. Jordan C. Schumann of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, August 9, 2011 at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Spc. Schumann, who was assigned to the 709th Military Police Battalion,...
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An Army carry team moves a transfer case containing the remains of Sgt. Anthony Del Mar Peterson Friday, Aug. 5, 2011 at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Peterson, 24, of Chelsea, Okla. , died Aug. 4 in Paktia province, Afghanistan of wounds sustained...
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Transfer cases containing the remains of Army Spc. Barun Rai, left case, and Army Sgt. Anthony Del Mar Peterson, right case, sit on a loader Friday, Aug. 5, 2011, at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Rai, 24, of Silver Spring, Md. , died Aug. 3, 2011, in...
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In this photo provided by the Oklahoma National Guard, shows Sgt. Anthony Peterson. Officials say that Peterson, 24, of Chelsea, Okla. , died Aug. 4, 2011, in Paktia province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with small arms fire. Peterson was assigned...
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A prisoner stands among other fighters loyal to warlord Padsha Khan are held prisoner after being captured by troops of rival warlord Said Ullah at a cave jail in Gardez , southeastern of Afghanistan 31 January 2002. Some 500 prisoners are being held in dungeon-type cells in Gardez,...
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Clay and Linda Schumann, of Port St. Lucie, Fla. , hold a photo of their son U.S. Army Spc. Jordan Christopher Schumann, 24, Thursday, July 7, 2011, in Port St. Lucie. Jordan Schumann died July 5, in Afghanistan's Paktia province when enemy forces attacked his unit with an improvised...
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An Afghan fighter loyal to Padsha Khan watches through binoculars in a battle against the troops of rival warlord Said Ullah outside Gardez city of Paktia province, southeastern Afghanistan 31 Janaury 2002. Forces loyal to the incoming governor of Paktia province were routed by a rival...
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