Washington Post delayed publication of Afghanistan story at Pentagon’s request

October 12th, 2009 Correction: Afghan-Sept 11 storyBAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — In a Sept. 11 story about U.S.

September 23rd, 2009 McCain: More troops needed in AfghanistanWASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain says more U.S.

September 22nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - The top US commander in Afghanistan is expected to soon request as many as 40,000 additional soldiers, FOX News reported. General Stanley McChrystal could submit the request to Defence Secretary Robert Gates as soon as Wednesday, FOX News reported Tuesday, citing a senior defence official.

September 22nd, 2009 Australia: No US request for more troopsSYDNEY — Australia says it has not been asked to send more troops to Afghanistan and does not expect Washington to make any quick decisions on a top-level warning that the war there could be lost without more multinational forces. The warning came in a report to U.S.

September 3rd, 2009 US probes USAID funds in AfghanistanWASHINGTON — The State Department said Thursday that an investigation has begun into whether U.S. development funding for Afghanistan is being diverted to local warlords and extremists following allegations that road and bridge contractors were paying "protection" money to the Taliban.

August 20th, 2009 Poll: Most say Afghanistan war not worth fightingWASHINGTON — A majority of Americans say the war in Afghanistan is not worth fighting, according to a poll released on the eve of that nation's elections. An ABC News-Washington Post poll found 51 percent who said the war was not worth fighting, while 47 percent said it was worth it.

August 14th, 2009 Correction: Afghanistan storyKABUL — In an Aug. 11 story about the soaring number of IED attacks in Afghanistan, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a recent U.N.

May 29th, 2009 Ore. man accused of trying to burn post officeROSEBURG, Ore. — A man accused of trying to burn down a post office to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has been charged with attempted arson.

May 12th, 2009 Correction: Afghanistan-Gates storyWARDAK PROVINCE, Afghanistan — In a May 9 story about Defense Secretary Robert Gates' trip to Afghanistan, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Osama bin Laden ordered the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York from Afghanistan. Bin Laden is believed to have been in Sudan in 1993 and authorities say convicted terrorist Ramzi Yousef masterminded the trade center attack.

May 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US is proposing to spend more on the Afghanistan war than on the one in Iraq for the first time, indicating a shift in priority, a media report said Friday. The $130 billion in war funds that are part of Pentagon's fiscal 2010 budget request includes $65 billion for Afghanistan operations and $61 billion for Iraq, the Washington Post reported.

April 30th, 2009 Canadian newspaper cancels Monday print editionsTORONTO — Canada's National Post, one of the country's two national newspapers, is going without its Monday print editions for nine weeks this summer in a move that will lower its newsprint costs. Company spokeswoman Phyllise Gelfand says the company will still publish an online edition.

April 19th, 2009 US asks for elite NZ troops for Afghanistan warWELLINGTON, New Zealand — The U.S. has formally asked New Zealand to send its elite Special Air Service combat troops back to Afghanistan for a fourth tour of duty, the foreign minister said Sunday.

March 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - An international team of scientists has discovered a novel one dimensional ice chain structure built from pentagons that may prove to be a step toward the development of new materials which can be used to seed clouds and cause rain. "For the first time, we have shown that ice can build an extended one dimensional chain structure entirely from pentagons and not hexagons," said Dr Angelos Michaelides from the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin.

March 9th, 2009 LONDON - The discovery of an ice chain built from pentagons may open the way to developing new materials to seed clouds and cause rain. Although the six-sided structure of regular ice is well known at the macroscale, its structures are much more mysterious and less well understood at the nanoscale - particularly when ice forms at an interface with matter as is the case in the higher atmosphere on particles of dust.

January 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US has reiterated that Kashmir was never going to be part of the portfolio of Richard Holbrooke, its special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, denying reports that Indian diplomats had managed to take it off his plate. 'As we've said before, that Kashmir was not going to be a part of Ambassador Holbrooke's portfolio.