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Watching a Teenage Girl Die by Mortar in Afghanistan – Lens

Adam Ferguson believes that facing difficult moments honestly — without emotionally separating himself from the situation at hand —yields more engaging photographs. Easy to say? He covers war. Link: Watching a Teenage Girl Die by Mortar in Afghanistan – NYTimes.com

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Stellazine: A Photographer Reviews “Restrepo”

I met Linda Covello when I worked at Newsweek and she was shooting for cover stories about American kids. She is first and foremost a portrait photographer with a great connection to people and their environment. Linda is also a … Continue reading

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Embedded with troops in Afghanistan – Framework

By Rick Loomis, Los Angeles Times Cameras. Check. Passport. Check. Bullet proof vest.  Check. And so it begins. My ninth trip into Afghanistan, a captivating country where I’ve now spent about two years of my life. Link: Embedded with troops … Continue reading

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The Face That Launched a Thousand Drones? – The Vigilante Journalist

The much talked about August 9 Time magazine cover, unabashed in its aim to shore up support for the war effort in Afghanistan, has left many still shaking their heads in disbelief at such brazen exploitation of a woman’s suffering. … Continue reading

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Rolling Stone reporter Afghan embed approval rescinded

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In Afghanistan, a Personal Perspective – Lens

Dima Gavrysh, who was born in Ukraine, is a New York-based photographer. He has photographed for a number of major publications worldwide and collaborated with Doctors Without Borders and the United Nations Population Fund in Uganda, Senegal and Niger. For … Continue reading

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Afghanistan, July, 2010 – The Big Picture

This past month, much of the attention focused on Afghanistan centered on the release of thousands of classified documents from the war effort by WikiLeaks. While the consensus appears to be that nothing significantly new was revealed by the release, … Continue reading

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Op-Ed – Protecting America’s Afghan Allies

A TALIBAN spokesman announced Thursday that the group is poring over the tens of thousands of classified military documents published by WikiLeaks this week, looking for the names of pro-American Afghans. As in the past, those identified will likely be … Continue reading

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Insurgent Leader On WikiLeaks: Now You Tell Us | Danger Room

so far, our cyber-sleuths aren’t seeing a lot of chatter on the Takfiri side of the internet. One notable exception: a leader of the Haqqani Network, a faction aligned with al-Qaeda, who wished he’d seen the documents earlier. Link: Insurgent … Continue reading

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Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: “largest intelligence leak in history”

Lots of early links on this one… An archive of classified U.S. military logs spanning six years, more than 91,000 documents, and 200,000 pages, was today made available by WikiLeaks. The papers show a picture of the war in Afghanistan … Continue reading

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The War Logs – NYTimes.com

A trove of military documents made public on Sunday by an organization called WikiLeaks reflects deep suspicions among American officials that Pakistan’s military spy service has for years guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives … Continue reading

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Unembedded in Saddam’s Iraq – At War

I didn’t want the Pentagon to write this story like a screenplay, with expert scene-setting, and the temptation, irresistible in conflict, to manipulate reality. The project to embed reporters with U.S. troops as those soldiers prosecuted the war was a … Continue reading

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Speak No Evil: A Post-McChrystal Press Clampdown – At War

So I started to chat up soldiers. Just as I had finished the formalities of name, age, rank and hometown with a young private from Michigan, I was interrupted by an officer who explained that a handful of soldiers had … Continue reading

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