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Topic: Afghanistan (page 31)

The mother of nineteen-year-old Zahara holds her hand while she lies in her hospital bed in Herat, Afghanistan April 7, 2004. Zahara, trapped in an unhappy marriage, attempted to commit suicide by burning herself with petrol. The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission has recorded at least 110 cases of self-immolation by women in five parts of the country in the past year. Photo taken April 7. TO ACCOMPANY FEATURE AFGHAN-WOMEN-SUICIDE REUTERS/Farzana Wahidy AL/FA (Â© Reuters Photographer / Reuters)

Judy Mandelbaum

Associated Press

Glenn Greenwald

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Glenn Greenwald

Rashad Hussain

Glenn Greenwald

Dan Senor the spokesman for the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority takes questions from journalists during news conference at the coalition forces headquarters in Baghdad February 3, 2004. The United States is committed to a July 1 handover of power in Iraq, despite Sunday's suicide bombings against key Kurdish allies, and is actively weighing compromise proposals for the transition, U.S. officials and experts said on Monday. REUTERS/Peter Andrews PA (Â© Reuters Photographer / Reuters)

Senor tries out novel, nonsensical mosque argument

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Civilian deaths tied to attacks on U.S. forces

A reporter takes notes inside an armored vehicle during a ride with U.S. soldiers in southern Afghanistan.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

Scott Rosenberg

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Mary Elizabeth Williams

US soldiers from 1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, run to firing positions after coming under attack by Taliban insurgents at COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley, Kandahar, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) (AP)

Andrew Bacevich

Deb Riechmann, Amir Shah

Wednesday link dump

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

Graham spokesman clarifies WikiLeaks comment

A convoy of Afghan trucks carrying wheat and US military supplies travels through Kunar Province in eastern Afghanistan December 28, 2008. REUTERS/Bob Strong (AFGHANISTAN) (Â© Bob Strong / Reuters)

WikiLeaks: U.S. knew contractors bribed Taliban

Gen. James L. Jones, Jr. and Senator Joe Lieberman

Pentagon: War logs don't harm national security

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Anne Flaherty, Raphael Satter

U.S. soldiers escort a wounded foreign contractor at a USAID compound in Kunduz, north of Kabul, Afghanista, Friday, July 2, 2010 after it was stormed by militants wearing suicide vests. Six suicide bombers attacked the compound Friday in northern Afghanistan, killing at least four people and wounding several others, officials said. (AP Photo) (Anonymous)

WikiLeaks war logs show the plight of contractors

Inset: A U.S. Marine is surrounded Friday by Afghan locals during an operation to clear the area of insurgents near Musa Qaleh, in southern Afghanistan.

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