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| 1 | Fort Lewis remembers two soldiers from a hard-hit platoon | Nation and World |
| Spc. Gary Lee Gooch and Spc. Aaron Seth Aamot grew up in opposite ends of America. Gooch was raised in Florida, while Aamot was raised in the town of Custer in the northwest corner of Washington. | ||
| 11/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 2 | Taliban gaining a foothold in northern Afghanistan | Nation and World |
| MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan — The insurgents' tactics are familiar. Night letters warn village elders to cooperate or face death. Religious "taxes" must be paid, and fiery sermons in mosques attack the Karzai government and international forces. | ||
| 11/15/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 3 | Looking back on Afghanistan with doubts and hope | Nation and World |
| Hal Bernton, just returned from nine weeks of reporting in Afghanistan, offers his perspective on the accelerating violence and signs of hope that he found there. | ||
| 11/11/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 4 | The camera guy, and some thoughts upon leaving | Nation and World |
| After spending two weeks in the field with Stryker Brigade soldiers in southern Afghanistan, my camera was in sorry shape. Dropped once and choked with dust, the Panasonic Lumix managed to capture one last group image of the 2nd Platoon, then quit working. | ||
| 11/10/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 5 | A gift of water, and life. | Nation and World |
| Mazar-e-Sharif -- Van Hubbard is a tall, lanky 73-year-old who knows how to tap into underground water. Earlier in his life, Van worked for companies that drilled for water in arid expanses of eastern Washington and California. | ||
| 11/3/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 6 | Karzai's rival out — a blow to West | Nation and World |
| KABUL, Afghanistan — As he announced his withdrawal from the presidential runoff, Abdullah Abdullah refused Sunday to concede his rival, President Hamid Karzai, could be the legitimate winner of Afghanistan's marathon election. | ||
| 11/2/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 7 | Challenger may drop out of Afghan election runoff | Nation and World |
| KABUL, Afghanistan — Challenger Abdullah Abdullah and Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai failed Saturday to agree on conditions for their Nov. 7 presidential runoff, setting the stage for Abdullah to drop out of the race, senior aides to Abdullah said. | ||
| 11/1/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 8 | Faces of those fallen | Nation and World |
| KABUL Here in the capital city of Afghanistan, I waited just like everyone back in the States for more news of the eight soldiers who died in two separate insurgents attacks Tuesday in southern Afghanistan. | ||
| 10/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 9 | Afghan panel snubs U.N. advice ahead of election | Nation and World |
| KABUL, Afghanistan — In a rebuff to the United Nations, an Afghan commission named by President Hamid Karzai disclosed Thursday that centers rife with fraudulent votes during the summer's presidential election will remain open for the Nov. 7 runoff against challenger Abdullah Abdullah. U.N. | ||
| 10/30/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 10 | A wake-up to gun fire | Nation and World |
| KABUL -- Sometimes, I wake up hear to the sounds of birds chirping in the garden. Sometimes I wake up unexpectedly to an editor's late-night phone call or to the sounds of a cat fight. A few days back, I was jolted awake by the violent shaking of my room as an earthquake struck this land. | ||
| 10/28/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 11 | 14 Americans die in Afghanistan chopper crashes | Nation and World |
| KABUL — Fourteen Americans died Monday in helicopter crashes in southern and western Afghanistan, one of the deadliest days for the United States in the Afghanistan war. | ||
| 10/26/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 12 | Hashing through Kabul | Nation and World |
| Kabul -- We ran along a route that took us past the poppy palaces built with drug money, and down a side street where a young carpenter tapped together wooden door frames. We ran along the trash strewn course of the weak-flowing Kabul River, | ||
| 10/24/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 13 | A trip west with the ambassador | Nation and World |
| But this building in the northwest Afghanistan province of Faryab is perhaps must distinctive for something that it lacks -- the fortified concrete blast walls that ring every government installation I have visited in Kabul and southern Afghanistan. | ||
| 10/23/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 14 | Another 1st Battalion casualty from Fort Lewis | Nation and World |
| After a day of reporting in northern Afghanistan, I returned Thursday to Kabul to learn of more bad news from southern Afghanistan. Another Fort Lewis-based soldier with the 1st Battalion has been killed in Kandahar Province. His name is Spc. | ||
| 10/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 15 | Uncertainties surround Afghan runoff | Nation and World |
| KABUL, Afghanistan — In the August presidential election, Parvez Mohammad, 21, a cashier at a fast-food restaurant, supported former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. His father and three uncles voted to give incumbent Hamid Karzai five years more in office. For the runoff Nov. | ||
| 10/22/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 16 | Karzai, Afghanistan brace for Round 2 of election | Nation and World |
| Afghan President Hamid Karzai, under heavy pressure from the Obama administration, its allies and the United Nations, on Tuesday accepted a final election tally that stripped him of hundreds of thousands of questionable votes in Afghanistan's Aug. 20 election. He also agreed to a Nov. | ||
| 10/21/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 17 | Lunch at the Herat | Nation and World |
| Once you step inside, if the sun still has enough warmth, make your way through the restaurant and out a back door. You'll emerge in a huge courtyard roughly the size of a city block. There, you find fig trees, potted geraniums and a curious collection of animals. | ||
| 10/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 18 | Fort Lewis soldier dies in Afghanistan | Nation and World |
| Fighting in the Arghandab Valley of southern Afghanistan has claimed the life of another Fort Lewis soldier, Spc. Michael Dahl, 23, from Moreno, California. Dahl's vehicle was struck by a bomb. He died on Oct. 17 from wounds suffered in the attack. | ||
| 10/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 19 | Afghan President Hamid Karzai to accept fraud finding; deal uncertain | Nation and World |
| Karzai was expected to make his concession at a Kabul news conference with Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass, who has been involved in an intense U.S.-led effort to pressure Karzai into dropping his objections to the U.N. | ||
| 10/20/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||
| 20 | Nearly a third of Afghan president's votes voided | Nation and World |
| KABUL, Afghanistan — The political crisis in Afghanistan intensified Monday as a United Nations-backed election commission voided hundreds of thousands of votes for incumbent President Hamid Karzai, setting the stage for a runoff election, which Karzai may reject. | ||
| 10/19/2009 | seattletimes.com | find similar results | ||