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		<title>RSS Feed - Digital Journal News from Afghanistan</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan's religious lawmakers block women's rights law]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/350418</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Taliban spring offensive targets Afghan Security and NATO forces]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/350353</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Kabul suicide blast kills 15, including six Americans]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/350266</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[American foreign policy motivated Boston bomber]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/350257</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Suicide car bomber attacks NATO convoy in Kabul]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/350252</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Facing the fear of flight]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/350218</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Top US general denies US air strike killed children in April]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/350192</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Leaving Afghanistan could cost US up to $7 billion]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/350164</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Senior US and Afghan officials negotiate details of earlier deal]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/349980</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Afghans not interested in killing Taliban - A Western fixation]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/349907</link>
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"Us", in this conversation, are the Taliban. The SOB in question is Osama bin Laden.  This is a quote relayed by Yahya Maroofi, Counsellor to Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai.]]></description>			<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 08:00:21 -0400</pubDate>		<guid><![CDATA[http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/349907]]></guid>
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			<title><![CDATA[Taliban offensive in Afghanistan continues killing 7 US troops]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/349475</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[5 American soldiers killed in roadside bombing]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/349467</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Graphic: Video of Bagram Airfield Boeing 747 crash surfaces]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/349194</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Video: Boeing 747 crash at Bagram Airfield military base kills 7]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/349195</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[CIA has been bribing Karzai for a decade]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/349102</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Taliban open spring offensive killing three police officers]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/349065</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[General asked for over 13,000 US troops in Afghanistan post 2014]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/348822</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Report: Boston bombing suspect motivated by US wars]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/348801</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Video: 'Little Commandos' undergo arms training in Taliban camp]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/348725</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Boston bombing — Why terror continues]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/348673</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Taliban kidnap 11 foreign nationals]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/348654</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Immunity demanded before US and NATO stay in Afghanistan]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/348465</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[UPDATE Boston area remains locked down]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/348350</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[What's next? Bomb control?]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/348232</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Afghanistan is looking at record amount of opium crops]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/348103</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Taliban kill 13 members of crack Afghan unit and burn outpost]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347865</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Big Buddha, and even bigger ones]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347820</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[US forces attack  bus and kill one civilian in Afghanistan]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347740</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[An American diplomat killed in a suicide car-bombing attack]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347469</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[NATO airstrike kills ten Afghan children]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347462</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[As US General Dempsey visits Afghanistan violence erupts]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347458</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Yemeni protesters demand release of Guantanamo detainees]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347420</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Number of US troops to stay in Afghanistan post 2014 undetermined]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347403</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Make or break time for Afghan Security Forces]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347373</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Biologic treatments vs Experimental treatments?]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347284</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[NATO air strike kills 4 Afghan police and 2 civilians]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347246</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Four sisters injured in newest acid attack in India]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347231</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[One million people have been killed by Afghan heroin]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347170</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Top UK general warns against troop withdrawal from Afghanistan]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347018</link>
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			<title><![CDATA[Did you know that there are two different Taliban groups?]]></title>
<link>http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/347009</link>
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