Foreign Correspondence

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War News for Thursdayu, December 18, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008

The British MoD is reporting the death of a British ISAF soldier from an enemy fire attack in an area
north west of Lashkar Gah, southern Helmand province, Afghanistan on Wednesday, December 17th.

Dec. 16 airpower summary:

Up to 25 Iraq government officials accused in plot:

Blackwater might lose license to work in Iraq:

Iraqi journalist's shoes 'destroyed' after Bush attack: (Nice, destroy
the evidence before the trail. O J would have been pleased.)

Lithuania pulls out of Iraq:

Albania says it is now pulling its 218 troops out of Iraq:

Bulgarian troops return from Iraq:

Bosnia withdraws troops from Iraq:

Japan ends five-year Iraq mission:

Britain confirms Iraq troop pullout, rebuffs Afghan link:

South Korean military to complete withdrawal from Iraq:

Petraeus gives outlook on Iraq, Afghanistan:
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Afghanistan:
#1: U.S. troops and Afghan police killed three militants in an overnight raid on a compound housing people with
al-Qaida links in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Wednesday. People who were in the compound said the
dead were civilians and that none of them had fired on the troops, according to Jahangir Pashtun, a spokesman for
the governor's office of Khost province. These witnesses told Pashtun that the U.S. troops opened fire on the compound.
U.S. military spokesman Col. Gregory Julian said the three people killed, one of them a woman, had been specifically
targeted as "known individuals with al-Qaida links." He said two of them fired directly on the troops and another attempted to fire.

http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/2008/12/war-news-for-thursdayu-december-18-2008.html

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