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Topic: Afghanistan (page 28)

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell speaks to fellow Democrats at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner, Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010 in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Steve Pope) (AP)

The 2,000-pound "smart" bomb that killed two U.S. special forces troops
and injured 20 others in Afghanistan on December 5, 2001 is one of the
most modern and precise weapons in America's military arsenal. Such
"JDAMs" (joint direct attack munitions) bombs, which are dropped in
both 1,000-pound and 2,000-pound versions, were developed after the
1991 Gulf War for more precise day and night use against ground targets
through fog, clouds or other bad weather. A JDAM cluster is shown in
this undated Air Force photograph. REUTERS/USAF/Handout

RC/SV (Â© Reuters Photographer / Reuters)

Poll: More Afghans support attacks

Elizabeth A. Kennedy

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks during the change of command ceremony in Baghdad September 1, 2010. Biden, in Iraq to mark the end of U.S. combat operations there, said on Wednesday he believed Iraqis were close to forming a goverment. REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) (Â© Pool New / Reuters)

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Gov. Ed Rendell displays a signed executive order at Penn Treaty Park in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. The order is to prevent any further leasing of state forest land for Marcellus Shale drilling. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (Matt Rourke)

British soldiers patrol on a street in Kabul in July

Tracy Clark-Flory

Glenn Greenwald

Second Lt. Jonathan Rezendes of Mass., foreground, and other U.S. soldiers from First Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division patrol in West Now Ruzi village, in Panjwai district, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2010.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) (AP)

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Hamid Karzai (left) and the ladies of "Sex and the City 2"

AZ employee who put down war-hero dog is fired

Associated Press

President Barack Obama waits for reporters and TV cameras to leave the room after making a statement on the ratification progress of the New START pact (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty), Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010, in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

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A U.S. Marine from the First Battalion Eighth Marines Alpha Company patrols in the town of Nabuk in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, October 31, 2010. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST MILITARY) (Reuters)

Staff Sgt. Sal Giunta in "The Sal Giunta Story", an online video by Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington

The Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen addresses the media in Ankara September 4, 2010. REUTERS/Stringer (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) (Â© Stringer Turkey / Reuters)

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An artist's impression of the planned U.S. embassy buildings in Kabul.

Afghan women prepare a meal.

NYT public editor perpetuates bad practices

Glenn Greenwald

ArmorGroup personnel party in Kabul, in a picture released by a government watchdog group in 2009.

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NATO denies claim of civilian death in Afghanistan

Katharine Houreld

In this photo taken on Saturday, Oct.9, 2010, a US Army soldier from Scout Platoon 502 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, keeps watch at an outpost in Zhari district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. The Scouts' mission was to support roadside bomb clearance efforts in the militant stronghold, the latest days-long phase of Operation Dragon Strike. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (AP)

Associated Press

Anne Gearan, Deb Riechmann

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