WWW.UPI.COM writes: "KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai said the government would guarantee deposits at stumbling Kabul Bank, which was rocked by a sudden government takeover. Afghanistan - Hamid Karzai - Kabul Bank - President of Afghanistan - Asia"

For British troops to be out of Afghanistan by 2015, local leaders need to be running the country themselves.

Ten Afghan civilians have been killed in a NATO airstrike in northeastern Afghanistan on Thursday. The attack has caused outrage in Afghanistan and prompted a stern warning from President Hamid Karzai who has repeatedly condemned airstrikes that have mistakenly killed civilians.

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"SYDNEY, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. intelligence agencies are dysfunctional and are contributing to a "quagmire" in Afghanistan, a former CIA officer complained. Afghanistan - Central Intelligence Agency - Asia - Intelligence agency - United States"

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"With four months left in the year, 2010 is already the deadliest year yet for U.S. troops in Afghanistan. 321 have been killed so far (out of 485 total coalition deaths), compared with 313 deaths in all of 2009. As coalition troop size has increased, and moves have been made into Taliban strongholds, attacks are on the rise, and, according to General David Petraeus, "the footprint of the Taliban ..."

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Brenda told me about this and I found this story about it at WWW.BOSTON.COM on Thursday.

"This past month, much of the attention focused on Afghanistan centered on the release of thousands of classified documents from the war effort by WikiLeaks. While the consensus appears to be that nothing significantly new was revealed by the release, the picture painted by the documents remains rather bleak. NATO and the United States now have 143,000 troops in Afghanistan, set to peak at 150 ..."

"CAMP EGGERS, Afghanistan -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates touched down in Kabul Thursday, in a surprise visit to Afghanistan for a lightning round of strategy sessions with top commanders and Afghan President Hamid Karzai."

From WWW.FOXNEWS.COM

In slightly over a month, on October 7, the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan will enter its tenth year. The conflict represents the longest continuous combat operations in the history of the United States and Afghanistan alike.

An Army staff sergeant who was killed in Afghanistan and listedas being from Lompoc apparently has no links to the city, but isbeing remembered by San Diego-area friends and family.

U.S. forces lost 22 soldiers in Afghanistan , mostly to roadside bombs, since Friday, marking a bloody step-up in the insurgency as a major U.S.-led offensive seeks to capture the spiritual homeland of the Taliban movement in Kandahar .