Afghan killed for teaching girls.
Suspected Taliban guerrillas dragged a teacher from a classroom of teenagers in southern Afghanistan and killed him at the school gate after he ignored their orders to stop teaching girls, police said on Friday.
U.S. had secret Afghanistan prison, group says.
A human rights group said Sunday that the United States operated a secret prison for terrorism suspects as recently as last year in Afghanistan, where detainees where subjected to torture and other mistreatment.
Drugs Main Threat in Afghanistan, General Says.
Opium production has boomed since the fall of the Taliban, stoking fears that Afghanistan, which is the source of most of the world's heroin, is becoming a narco-state.
"For my money, the No. 1 problem in Afghanistan is drugs," U.S. Gen. James L. Jones told reporters during a stopover in Qatar on his way to the Afghan capital, Kabul, for talks with President Hamid Karzai.
Jones said it was too early to say if a spate of suicide bombings against U.S. and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces in Afghanistan represented isolated copycat incidents or a long-term shift by Taliban fighters and their foreign allies toward the tactics often used by insurgents in Iraq.
Sigh. I sure would love to cheer the democratic goings on, but pesky reality keeps getting in the way of the Dimwit Dauphin's favorite fantasy.
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