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U.S. Forces Rescue New York Times Reporter Kidnapped By Taliban

It’s a joyous night for the New York Times : the Pahjwok news agency, a subscription-only Afghan service, reports that foreign fighters have rescued Stephen Farrell , the paper’s second reporter to have been kidnapped by the Taliban in recent months. Farrell was taken earlier this month while covering a NATO air strike on Taliban forces in Kunduz, Afghanistan. His driver and translator were also taken.

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U.S. Forces Rescue New York Times Reporter Kidnapped By Taliban

U.S. Forces Rescue NY Times Reporter Kidnapped By Taliban

It’s a joyous night for the New York Times , for Afghan news agency, the subscription-only Pahjwok reports that foreign fighters have rescued Stephen Farrell , the paper’s second reporter to have been kidnapped by the Taliban in recent months. Farrell was taken earlier this month while covering a NATO air strike on Taliban forces in Kunduz, Afghanistan. His driver and translator were also taken.

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NY Times Reporter Kidnapped By Taliban Rescued

It’s a joyous night for the New York Times , for Afghan news agency, the subscription-only Pahjwok reports that foreign fighters have rescued Stephen Farrell , the paper’s second reporter to have been kidnapped by the Taliban in recent months. Farrell was taken earlier this month while covering a NATO air strike on Taliban forces in Kunduz, Afghanistan. His driver and translator were also taken.

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Soldier killed in Afghanistan re-enlisted to get health care coverage for family

CNN news anchor John Roberts asks “How far would you go to get good health insurance?” A report this morning tells the heartbreaking story of a man who lost his job as a computer consultant, and along with the job went the health insurance for his family. Army SPC Greg Missman had ended his military service 11 years earlier, but signed back on in order to provide his young son Jack with health insurance coverage. After only one month on the ground in Afghanistan, Missman's father Jim received the news that Greg's convoy had been ambushed, and Greg was killed in the attack.

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Diane Sawyer Will Take Over the Anchor Chair ABC’s World News Tonight

In moving Sawyer from GMA to World News Tonight next year, ABC News is shifting a star resource from a hugely profitable morning show to a dying legacy newscast. All so she can sleep in a few hours later.

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Our Embassy in Afghanistan Is Guarded by Sexually Confused Frat Boys

Wonder what it’s like to guard State Department facilities in Kabul? In photos first published by Gawker, security contractors get their kicks peeing on one another, simulating anal sex, doing “butt shots,” and “eating potato chips out of ass cracks.” These photos were provided to us by the Project on Government Oversight, which has just written a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton detailing its investigation into the ” Lord of the Flies environment” that has overtaken the private contractors who guard State Department employees in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to POGO, employees of ArmorGroup North America—a unit of contracting giant Wackenhut—get their jollies off by “deviant hazing [that] has created a climate of fear and coercion, with those who declined to participate often ridiculed, humiliated, demoted, or even fired.” What sort of hazing

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American commander: US on the road out of Iraq

BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military is packing up to leave Iraq in what has been deemed the largest movement of manpower and equipment in modern military history – shipping out more than 1.5 million pieces of equipment from tanks to antennas along with a force the size of a small city. The massive operation already under way a year ahead of the Aug.

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Was he littering or helping fellow human beings?

A man who left jugs of water for immigrants is sentenced for littering. Priorities are subjective, aren't they

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Afghan woman defies threats, discrimination to run for re-election

SHEIKHABAD, Afghanistan — The threats come at least once a week in the dark of night, Zaiba Habib Durrani said. The caller vows to kill her or disfigure her face with acid.

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iRobot receives $5.1M order from US Army

“Robot maker iRobot Corp. said Wednesday it received a $5.1 million order from the U.S. Army for its bomb-disposal robots

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