Opposition leader: Canadian troops out of Afghanistan
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The leader of an opposition party has called for the withdrawal of Canadian troops fighting a &quot;George Bush-style counterinsurgency war&quot; in Afghanistan, saying the conflict kindles insecurity here.
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The Canadian military has stopped turning over detainees to Afghan authorities due to allegations of torture, the Justice Ministry said in a letter sent Wednesday to civil rights groups.
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The six NATO soldiers killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Wednesday were Canadian, a senior military official said.
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A Canadian member of the Nato force in Afghanistan is killed in a so-called "friendly fire" incident.
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OTTAWA/KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - Afghan President   Hamid Karzai urged Canada to stay the course in his war-torn   country, where 19 people were killed on Friday by Taliban   forces who have also targeted foreign peacekeepers.
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"We have no alternative, because we can not leave Afghanistan to the hands of the terrorists"  Thousands of protesters called Saturday for German troops to pull out of Afghanistan, while Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the country's presence there as necessary to ensure security. via MyTELUS
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Taliban leader Mullah Omar on Tuesday called on foreign forces to withdraw from Afghanistan and taunted NATO about its capture of the southern town of Musa Qala, saying celebrating such a small victory only showed its weakness.
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"We will of course consult closely with Canada on this"  The vast majority of Canadians want this country's military mission in Afghanistan to end as scheduled in 2009, according to a new poll. via Canada.com
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Spain will pull its 500 troops out of Afghanistan after the Afghan elections, Defense Minister Jose Bono told local media on Monday.
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NATO and Afghan government troops have   forced Taliban insurgents out of a southern Afghan district   after a two-week operation in which NATO said hundreds of   militants were killed.
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A Canadian soldier was killed Friday in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, while an insurgent attack on a police checkpoint left three dead, officials said.
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HALIFAX (CP) - Fresh from his first inspection of the charred insides of HMCS Chicoutimi, federal Conservative Leader Stephen Harper said Saturday he has reservations about possibly sending Canadian troops to Iraq as part of post-war reconstruction.
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France is considering sending forces to join the fight against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan and planned talks Friday with Canadian officials requesting 1,000 troops to support its beleaguered soldiers in volatile Kandahar province.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber on a   bicycle killed four Canadian NATO soldiers handing out   notebooks and pens to children in southern Afghanistan on   Monday, a day after NATO declared the area free of Taliban   insurgents.
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Six Canadian soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday when their armored vehicle hit a roadside bomb, the Canadian government said, in what was the deadliest attack on NATO forces this month in the country.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber killed two Canadian soldiers in an attack on an alliance convoy in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on Monday.
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Two Canadian soldiers die in an attack by insurgents in southern Afghanistan, the Canadian military says.