Hostage Trade: Taliban Officials Released in Exchange for Italian Journalist

March 19, 2007 --

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Afghanistan's Silent Plague of AIDS
Sitting and eating quietly on his father's lap, the 18-month-old boy was oblivious to the infection running through his veins. (International Herald Tribune)

Pearl Murder Convict to Appeal after Confession
The lawyer of an Islamist militant sentenced to hang in Pakistan for his role in the 2002 murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl said on Monday he would use a top al Qaeda militant's confession to support an appeal. (Reuters)

Guilty Verdict in Iraq Killings Case
A military panel found a 101st Airborne soldier guilty of three counts of negligent homicide but not guilty of premeditated murder in the deaths of three Iraqi detainees. (AP)

Bomber Blatantly Blows Up Bradley
A Web video surfaced yesterday showing an alleged insurgent crawling under a US military vehicle in Iraq and purportedly planting explosives in full daylight. (Kuwait Times)

Voices from Iraq 2007: Ebbing Hope in a Landscape of Loss
A new national survey paints a devastating portrait of life in Iraq: widespread violence, torn lives, displaced families, emotional damage, collapsing services, an ever starker sectarian chasm — and a draining away of the underlying optimism that once prevailed. (ABC News)