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...vessel was spotted making its way toward the northwest coast of Australia. By dawn, the Australian navy had intercepted the boat. As members of the HMAS Albany stepped on board, they noticed a strong smell of gasoline. Moments later, the craft exploded, leaving all of its human passengers - 47 Afghani asylum-seekers and two Indonesian crew members -stranded in the water. Five Afghanis died, and dozens, including four navy personnel and the crew, were injured in the blast...
...given year. "Desperate people don't sit there in a tyrannical regime and study the fine points of our legal reforms," says Manne. "What they do is look for any way they can to get to a place of safety - to save their lives." Most of the Afghani refugees who arrive in Australia, for instance, are Hazaras, a large ethnic group that has been persistently persecuted by the Taliban...
...People are maimed and injured, there’s a lot of debris,” Docherty said, describing an Afghani site she visited. “You just see over and over again these yellow, soda can-sized munitions...
...yesterday in a lecture at the Harvard Kennedy School. Rashid, a correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and Britain’s Daily Telegraph who wrote a best-selling book on the Taliban, said that the group has become a regional security problem—not just an Afghani one—and that it is causing instability in much of central Asia. “The Taliban has become a kind of brand now, not just of extremism but a model of society,” Rashid said. That “brand” largely moved into...
Victims of War The picture of the two wounded Afghani children that accompanied the article "Collateral Tragedies" literally took my breath away - like a kick to the chest [Sept. 15]. I wonder if those in favor of our military actions could look into these children's eyes and explain to them why America is right to do this to them and their families. All the arguments in the world can never justify the fear and pain reflected in those children's faces. Kelly Czermerys, HUNTER...