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    afghan


    1. Crates marked Afghan, Uzbek, Cyr, Scy, Ity, Try, Cthge and every Greek island including Faria stacked high to the roof on galleries along four or five avenues


    2. with a knitted afghan covering him all the way to the neck


    3. I soon gave up, content to let some mindless cartoons rot Nathaniel’s impressionable young mind, while I, wrapped in an afghan, collapsed, shivering, onto the floor’s heating vent


    4. To equate American religious conservatives with the Afghan Taliban is to be more than murky, for the Taliban are not conservatives nor conservators


    5. conspicuously absent whenever Westerners are mistreated? For what reason our obsessive concern over Saddam Hussein receiving three square meals and proper medical attention or that Afghan detainees at Guantanamo Bay should be issued copies of the Koran and provided legal counsel although nary a peep over the public executions of (American/European) soldiers/civilians that have become common throughout the Middle East and other parts of the world? This consistent pattern of cuddling up to our nation‘s enemies by liberal activists has been well chronicled over the years following the Vietnam War when tears were seldom shed for the many brave young men and women who courageously served their nation in the cause of Freedom


    6. Each additional year of war in Iraq or Afghanistan would likely have cost hundreds of American lives and tens of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan lives


    7. The final sticking point was the US demand that US troops be above Iraqi and Afghan law


    8. The Iraqi and Afghan public, both overwhelmingly opposed to a US military presence in their nations from the beginning


    9. In the end Obama was driven out, again, by an Afghan government and public that had not wanted the US there for years


    10. The Afghan war was on the pretext that the Taliban, who my

    11. I hope that the Afghan war, short and without a great number of civilian victims, thank God, will help as example to other governments that protect, finance and shelter those terrorist bands


    12. I nourish the hope that the present Afghan experience has been a lesson to the entire world and that bombs are no longer urgent to guarantee our security and preserve our peace and


    13. potential for torture of prisoners handed over by the Canadian military to Afghan


    14. "We think this is a glorification of the Afghan effort," he said


    15. combined effort between the Afghan National Security Forces, Canada and other


    16. In spite of the minor trouble, Al-Qaeda and other Afghan war lords came out of hiding and marched into the villages with smiles on their faces as they greeted the crowds of cheering people


    17. The Afghan president called a meeting of all concerned and the assembly, smiling and convivial, declared a peaceful end to hostilities


    18. Nearly a month later, following a friendly meeting between the Secretary of State and the Afghan president, the secretary"s office called Warren to Washington


    19. In 1983, Ras is recruited by the mujahideen in Afghan to train resistance forces against the Russian invasion


    20. In 1992, he receives a personal medal from Abdul Rashid Dostum, the former leader of the Afghan militia he once trained his unit to defeat (Dostum had switched sides after the Soviets withdrew)

    21. Ras’s reputation and respect among the Afghan rebels is legendary


    22. Shades sat comfortably in his rocker, the afghan draped across his legs


    23. “Can I ask you to remove that afghan?”


    24. I was knitting a panel of an afghan that Harriet wanted finished for her boutique, that would take place in November, sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas


    25. Angela sat close beside her on the sofa, bundled up in an afghan blanket


    26. Afghan drug smugglers also used the same route to cross the Turkish border on their way to Europe and America


    27. ‘What I would suggest James, is that you concentrate on Hu Lyang – we know now where the drugs are entering the country – even if we no longer have the evidence………so I think that we leave Umberto Goncalves alone for the moment………especially after the big Afghan Drugs confiscation in Durban the other day - give him a chance to cool down – perhaps first try to discover who the informer is within our ranks… there must be one, as they were obviously expecting Rory…………


    28. How we laughed over that together, but Cameron didn"t think it was quite so funny at the time, especially when his sister gave him a good swift kick up the backside when he was so demanding of his new Afghan friends! But Cameron was sure it was because they were not paying enough attention to her!


    29. Clarene ran to the shabby davenport, pulled the white afghan off the backrest, and then curled herself into a ball


    30. Recently, an Afghan teenage girl (15 years old) was rescued

    31. She was fully committed to use that experience to the maximum to help train the recruits of the Afghan National Army, or ANA, who were due to assume in a bit over a year the full responsibility for defending their country from the Taliban extremists


    32. That was where she was going to replace the unfortunate Captain Lebowsky as the second most senior Canadian trainer of Afghan Army recruits in Herat


    33. Due to a series of unfortunate incidents involving American soldiers during the last year, relations between the Afghan people and NATO troops, especially American troops, were very tense


    34. It had to stop at the western entrance to the camp, where Italian soldiers were supervising Afghan soldiers guarding the gate


    35. He decided that having a female officer train Afghan soldiers for combat was not appropriate


    36. You will be the senior NATO mentoring officer for the training of female Afghan police recruits who follow an eight-week basic patrolman course in Shouz


    37. You will have with you as fellow NATO trainers an Italian Carabinieri lieutenant and an American Military Police sergeant, while the Afghan course staff had only one senior lieutenant and two sergeants


    38. Unfortunately, the American Marine battalion that was based in Farah Province was recently withdrawn, creating quite a hole in the security situation there that the Afghan army and police are now trying desperately to plug


    39. However, the Afghan security forces are losing a lot of people there, and about everywhere else in the country


    40. Do the Afghan staff eat at the same mess as the international staff?’’

    41. Amin did not need to mention names, as Wahid and the other Afghan officers present knew well which international staff member truly respected them and which ones didn’t


    42. ‘’I have just reviewed quickly the course schedule and the required curriculum from the Afghan Border Police program


    43. If you wish so, you could use us to actually give the instruction in those specialties, which would allow you and your two sergeants to teach the points touching specifically Afghan law, border and checkpoint procedures and how to handle family and women-related crimes


    44. After a few clipped phrases, the Afghan police woman slowly put down the receiver and looked at Maria with sadness


    45. That barrack had been set apart from the other Afghan barracks, on the edge of the square occupied by the international staff, to keep the women as widely separated from the Afghan men as possible


    46. Maria and Nancy were still about thirty meters away from the Afghan soldier, who was now at one of the entrance door of the female barracks, when the man noticed them coming towards him


    47. That parade, which Nancy attended on the sidelines with Maria Garibaldi and Jennifer Cummings, to let the spotlight on the Afghan staff, was a standard affair, with a number of speeches from senior officers and the passing of basic information about the course


    48. Watched by all the Afghan recruits and most of the staff, Nancy, dressed in her white Ji 4, did the routine that had earned her her fifth dan, complete with high kicks and lightning-quick punches


    49. Nancy examined the target at which one of the female Afghan recruits had been shooting with her AK-47 assault rifle from a distance of fifty meters, then patted her shoulder in encouragement, speaking to her in Pashto


    50. Finally, with the Sun low on the horizon and due to disappear in one hour, she concluded the shooting session and had her recruits dismantle and clean their rifles on folding tables, under the supervision of their female Afghan instructors














































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    Synonyms for "afghan"

    afghan afghan hound sheepskin coat afghani pashto pashtu paxto afghanistani blanket quilt bedspread comforter strip sheet cloak

    "afghan" definitions

    a blanket knitted or crocheted in strips or squares; sometimes used as a shawl


    a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan


    an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan


    a coat made of sheepskin


    tall graceful breed of hound with a long silky coat; native to the Near East


    of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people