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Dion Nissenbaum

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Dec 10, 2017
Latest from Dion Nissenbaum

NATO Challenged Over Kabul Raid That Killed Two Guards

Kabul, Afghanistan – The international Special Forces military team that targeted a Kabul office complex on Christmas Eve day thought they were thwarting a holiday season plot to…
by
Hashim Shukoor &
Dion Nissenbaum,
McClatchy Newspapers | Report
December 27, 2010
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Contractor Leaves Afghan Police Stations Half-Complete

Shahri Buzurg, Afghanistan – When police officers in this isolated Afghanistan village moved out of their dilapidated headquarters in 2008 to make way for U.S.-funded construction crews, they…
by
Hashim Shukoor &
Dion Nissenbaum,
McClatchy Newspapers | Report
November 15, 2010
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Obama Backs India Post on UN Security Council

New Delhi – President Barack Obama on Monday explicitly endorsed India’s longstanding hopes of securing a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, an influential endorsement that…
by
Dion Nissenbaum &
Margaret Talev,
McClatchy Newspapers | Report
November 8, 2010
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UK Leader Says Aid Worker May Have Been Killed by US Forces

Kabul, Afghanistan – U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of the international military coalition in Afghanistan, launched an investigation into the failed weekend rescue attempt of British…
by
Dion Nissenbaum,
McClatchy Newspapers | Report
October 11, 2010
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Afghan Election Panel Reports New Evidence of Serious Fraud

KABUL, Afghanistan — Internal reports Tuesday from Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission provided new evidence of serious fraud in the country’s parliamentary elections, including turnouts that exceeded 100 percent…
by
Dion Nissenbaum &
Jonathan S Landay,
McClatchy Newspapers | Report
September 21, 2010
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Family, US Offer Differing Versions of Deadly Afghan Raid

Kabul, Afghanistan – When Ismail Nemati set out from Kabul last week to join his family in nearby Wardak province for the start of the Islamic holy month…
by
Hashim Shukoor &
Dion Nissenbaum,
McClatchy Newspapers | Report
August 21, 2010
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Karzai to Ban Private Security Companies in Afghanistan

Kabul, Afghanistan – Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s office on Monday announced that it will close the country’s 52 private security companies by year’s end, a decision that could…
by
Hashim Shukoor &
Dion Nissenbaum,
McClatchy Newspapers | Report
August 17, 2010
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US Soldiers’ Mission Shows Afghan War’s Uncertainties

Arghandab, Afghanistan – Setting out on one of their final patrols in Afghanistan, the U.S. Army and Afghan soldiers waded through waist-deep streams, scampered over crumbling 9-foot-tall mud…
by
Dion Nissenbaum,
McClatchy Newspapers | Report
August 13, 2010
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Ten Medical Aid Workers Robbed, Killed in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — Ten members of an international medical mission, including six Americans, were robbed and killed while returning from a two-week trek through risky parts of eastern…
by
Hashim Shukoor &
Dion Nissenbaum,
McClatchy Newspapers | Report
August 7, 2010
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Taliban’s Mullah Omar Orders Attacks on Women, US Says

Arghandab, Afghanistan – U.S. intelligence officials say they have intercepted new orders from the Taliban’s spiritual leader that call on insurgents to target women and Afghan civilians helping…
by
Saeed Shah &
Dion Nissenbaum,
McClatchy Newspapers
July 18, 2010
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