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...Tarin Kowt has the sleepy air of a small country town. Women in burqas shepherd gawking children through the bazaar, and grizzled farmers in battered four-wheel-drives jostle for road space with flocks of sheep and motorbikes decked with flowers and bright seat rugs. But "it's dangerous going out" of town, says an Australian soldier at the governor's compound who asked not to be named. "You'll go somewhere once, twice - and the third time you're dead.'' The compound, with its neatly tended rose garden, is ringed by high walls, double checkpoints, machine-gun emplacements...
...outskirts. It is home to 1,400 Dutch troops and about 700 Australians. The Dutch forces include a Provincial Reconstruction Team, an armored battle group, and special forces. The Australians have a 370-man Reconstruction Task Force and a Special Operations Group made up of about 300 Special Air Service troops and Army commandos. The ISAF work alongside a steadily growing Afghan National Army unit whose base sits beside Camp Holland. As well as ferreting out and fighting the Taliban, the coalition forces - which also include U.S. soldiers serving under Operation Enduring Freedom - train local soldiers and police and undertake...
...human shields, tortured them, cut out their tongues or hacked off their hands, and set them on fire. The report estimated that 60 to 70 civilians were killed in the Chora fighting. While it found that the ISAF had "made a serious attempt" to warn civilians ahead of air strikes, it urged the coalition to be more cautious in its use of "heavy-handed tactics." Civilian casualties, the report noted, risk undermining the "very real sentiment" among Afghans in support of the ISAF's mission...
...thing is for sure - customers want something to be done, and soon. "It's illogical to spend billions of dollars on the Olympics while at the same time not solve the air-traffic problems," says Martin Craigs, president of the trade association Aerospace Forum Asia. "What happens at the airports are the face of China to travelers." If Beijing wants to be a world-class aviation player, saving face should be its first priority...
...businessmen joined the throng heading for Egypt. There were scores of brides-to-be, stuck on the Egyptian side, who scurried across to be united with their future bridegrooms in Gaza. And some, like teacher Abu Bakr, stepped through a blast hole into Egypt simply "to enjoy the air of freedom...