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		Tribal chiefs are acting as intermediaries between the Taliban and Karzai's government in the southeastern provinces of Paktia, Khost and Paktika, said Paktia governor Assadullah Wafa.
		Wafa said a regional delegation had traveled to Kabul hoping to meet Khalilzad, but he was not in the capital.
		Wafa declined to identify any of the Taliban he said were willing to stop fighting, but said the group that he was in contact with consisted of both senior and ordinary members of the radical Islamic movement.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=3800145&postID=110605611310420079 (568 words)

	RedOrbit - General - Military confirms one soldier rescued (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kunar Governor Assadullah Wafa said 17 civilians, includingwomen and children, had been killed in the raid.
		Wafa said the soldier was thought to be in the area where aU.S. helicopter sent to rescue the missing troops was shot downby militants last Tuesday, killing all 16 U.S. Special Forcessoldiers aboard.
		Wafa regretted the incident, but said: "I'm sure thiswasn't something the Americans planned to do -- it was amistake.
	www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=162986&source=r_general (593 words)

	ABS-CBN Interactive
		Kunar Governor Assadullah Wafa told Reuters earlier an investigation by Afghan security forces showed 17 civilians had been killed in the air raid on a village during a search for a small group of US soldiers missing since last Tuesday.
		Wafa said the soldier was in the same area where a US helicopter sent to rescue the troops was shot down by militants last Tuesday, killing all 16 US Special Forces soldiers aboard.
		Wafa said he had no information about two other Special Forces soldiers believed to be missing.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /storypage.aspx?StoryId=9542 (944 words)

	Kunar Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The region’s wooded mountains are popular with militants because they are easy to infiltrate from neighboring Pakistan and have plenty of places to hide.
		As of 2005, Assadullah Wafa is the current governor of the province.
		The first fight against UUSR invasion started from MARAWARA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Konar_Province (299 words)

	USATODAY.com - Deaths could be serious blow to al-Qaeda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		But Assadullah Wafa, governor of Afghanistan's Kunar region bordering the area around Damadola, said the attack would seriously damage morale.
		Based in Wafa's home province is another suspected casualty of the attack, Abu Obaidah al-Masri.
		He is believed to be in charge of planning attacks on U.S.-led coalition forces in the area, which Pakistan says are forbidden from crossing the border in pursuit of militants.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-01-19-qaeda-setback_x.htm (915 words)

	The Epoch Times \| U.S. Military Confirms One Soldier Rescued
		Kunar Governor Assadullah Wafa said 17 civilians, including women and children, had been killed in the raid.
		Wafa said the soldier was thought to be in the area where a U.S. helicopter sent to rescue the missing troops was shot down by militants last Tuesday, killing all 16 U.S. Special Forces soldiers aboard.
		Wafa regretted the incident, but said: "I'm sure this wasn't something the Americans planned to do- it was a mistake.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/5-7-5/30046.html (645 words)

	US kills more civilians in Afghanistan: provincial governor \| World War 4 Report
		The news came after it was announced that a second member of an elite U.S. military team missing since last week in eastern Kunar Province is believed to be wounded and sheltering in a house in a remote part of the region, Kunar Governor Assadullah Wafa said.
		The governor of Kunar, Assadullah Wafa, said an investigation by Afghan security forces showed 17 civilians had been killed during the air raid on a village during a search for a small group of U.S. soldiers missing since last Tuesday.
		Wafa said he had no information about two other soldiers believed to be missing.
	www.ww4report.com /node/713 (1201 words)

	CFLCC Media Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The meeting, held at Gov. Assadullah Wafa's compound in Asadabad, was the first between Wafa and the leaders of Task Force Spartan, made up primarily of the Fort Drum, N.Y.-based 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division.
		The Spartans assumed security responsibilities in eastern Afghanistan in March and April 12 began Operation Mountain Lion to deny insurgents sanctuary and prevent the re-emergence of terrorism in the region.
		With Wafa, the group touched on civil affairs and reconstruction projects and economic-development issues.
	www.arcent.army.mil /media_releases/2006/april/apr19_03.asp (393 words)

	SABCnews.com - world/the_middle_east
		Assadullah Wafa, the Afghanistan provincial governor, said roadside bombs killed eight Afghan soldiers, in the latest incidents in a surge of violence as North Atlantic Treaty Organization, (NATO), members prepare to expand an Afghan peacekeeping force.
		Seven soldiers were wounded in the two separate blasts in Kunar province, which is on the border with Pakistan, said the province's governor.
		Six soldiers were killed in one of the blasts and two were killed in the other, he said.
	www.sabcnews.com /world/the_middle_east/0,2172,121387,00.html (283 words)

	Afghanistan - U.S. Denies Afghan Claim of Found Soldier
		Citing Afghan intelligence sources, Wafa said the second U.S. service member was believed to be wounded and had taken shelter in a house in a remote part of the region.
		Wafa regretted the incident, but said: "I'm sure this wasn't something the Americans planned to do -- it was a mistake.
		Wafa had been mistakenly referring to a Navy SEAL rescued Saturday.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1436405/posts (1792 words)

	Turks.US Daily News: US Air Strike Killed 17 Afghan Civilians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Assadullah Wafa, governor of Konar province, said the bombing was a "mistake" and called for a US inquiry.
		One of the missing US soldiers has been found safe and the search is continuing for the other three.
		Mr Wafa told the BBC he thought the air strike on the village was not intentional, but said: "We would ask for an answer from the American military."
	www.turks.us /article.php?story=20050704132313622&mode=print (398 words)

	Central Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Tribal chiefs are acting as intermediaries between the Taliban and Karzai's govern- ment in the southeastern provinces of Paktia, Khost and Paktika, said Paktia governor Assadullah Wafa.
		He said a regional delegation had travelled to Kabul hoping to meet Khalilzad, but the ambassador was away from the capital.
		Leaders of the mainstream opposition parties fear that Karzai, an ethnic Pashtun, wants to use the proposed amnesty to strengthen his power base in the Pashtun heartlands of the south and south- east ahead of parliamentary elections due in April.
	www.centralchronicle.com /20050116/1601151.htm (486 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| US regrets Afghan civilian deaths
		Women and children were among 17 killed in the raid on Chechal village, Konar province governor Assadullah Wafa said.
		A second US soldier is alive and being cared for by villagers, Mr Wafa said.
		Governor Wafa had earlier called the bombing a "mistake" and called for an inquiry.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4647715.stm (511 words)

	Khaleej Times Online - Hundreds of Taleban want to stop uprising: official
		Tribal chiefs are acting as intermediaries between the Taleban and Karzai’s government in the southeastern provinces of Paktia, Khost and Paktika, said Paktia governor Assadullah Wafa.
		Leaders of the mainstream opposition parties fear that Karzai, an ethnic Pashtun, wants to use the proposed amnesty to strengthen his power base in the Pashtun heartlands of the south and southeast ahead of parliamentary elections due in April.
		Wafa declined to identify any of the Taleban he said were willing to stop fighting, but said the group that he was in contact with consisted of both senior and ordinary members of the radical Islamic movement.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2005/January/subcontinent_January411.xml§ion=subcontinent (522 words)

	RedOrbit NEWS \| Two U.S. soldiers found dead in Afghanistan - paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kunar Governor Assadullah Wafa said on Monday that anothermissing soldier may have been located in a remote village, buta U.S. defense official said he had no information about asecond soldier being found.
		Kunar Governor Wafa said 17 civilians, including women andchildren, had been killed in an airstrike by U.S. planes onFriday as part of the effort to find the missing soldiers.
		After declining to comment over the weekend about reportsof civilian deaths, the U.S. military said on Monday it hadkilled an "unknown" number of militants and civilians in thestrike on a militant compound and regretted the loss ofinnocent life.
	www.redorbit.com /modules/news/tools.php?tool=print&id=162992 (379 words)

	Afghan Militia Force Launched To Guard Border
		Konar Governor Assadullah Wafa told AP today that the force was formed a month ago to slow the flow of militants slipping across the frontier between the northeastern Afghan province and Pakistan's Bajur area.
		Wafa said Al-Qaeda and the Taliban were believed to run training camps on the Pakistani side of the border.
		Konar deputy police chief Sumunwal Hasan Farahi said the militants have support from many local residents, who are mainly Pashtun.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2006/01/mil-060115-rferl03.htm (163 words)

	AcuraZine Community - Numerous members of the Taliban to change side to Afghan government
		"In line with the government's reconciliation policy we have contacted the Taliban and their response is encouraging, so I personally predict their mass surrender very soon," Assadullah Wafa, Governor of Paktia province told Xinhua in an exclusive interview conducted at his residence in the provincial capital of Gardez Thursday.
		To stabilize security and extend the central government's authority outward to the countryside, President Hamid Karzai as well as US ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad announced amnesty for Taliban operatives some two months ago, but the offer was rejected by the militant group as a ploy to divide it.
		Among the remnants of the former Taliban regime who are still alive and at large, according to Afghan officials, some 150 are criminals and associates to the terror network run by Bin Laden-led al-Qaeda group.
	www.acurazine.com /forums/showthread.php?t=165743 (331 words)

	CBC News: Bomb kills 8 Afghan soldiers
		The Taliban government was accused of harbouring al-Qaeda militants led by Osama bin Laden, blamed for the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
		The Afghan soldiers were killed in two separate attacks in Kunar province, on the border with Pakistan in the south, said the province's governor, Assadullah Wafa.
		While Wafa declined to speculate on who may have been responsible, Taliban and allied militants are active in the area.
	www.cbc.ca /story/world/national/2006/02/10/20060210-afghanbomb.html (818 words)

	US marines 'die' in Afghan bomb
		Assadullah Wafa said the soldiers were killed by a remote-controlled bomb in Wattapoar district.
		The armored vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive in the Pech Valley, Kunar province, where the Americans were patrolling to keep a road open to civilian and military traffic, the military said in a statement.
		Earlier, Kunar Gov. Asadullah Wafa said a remote-controlled mine exploded, hitting a convoy of American troops on patrol in the Watapur area of the province, killing three and wounding one.
	www.democraticunderground.com /discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2161704 (1507 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Three killed clearing mines in Afghanistan
		KABUL, Sept 28 (AFP) - Two Afghan policemen and a civilian were killed and four others were wounded Wednesday by a blast during an operation to remove landmines planted along the frontier with Pakistan, officials said.
		The mines were left by US-led coalition forces in the Marawara district of restive Kunar province to prevent insurgents sneaking into Afghanistan ahead of key parliamentary polls 10 days ago, provincial governor Assadullah Wafa said.
		Afghanistan went to the polls amid tight security on September 18 to elect the war-torn country's first parliament in more than 30 years.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACIO-6GNLNH?OpenDocument (234 words)

	ISN Security Watch - US recovers Navy SEAL bodies in Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Meanwhile, US military officials have apologized for killing Afghan civilians, including women and children, in an air strike in Kunar province during a search for the missing Navy SEALs.
		Kunar Governor Assadullah Wafa said on Monday that 17 civilians, including women and children, had been killed in a US air strike on Friday as part of the effort to find the missing soldiers.
		Wafa said that the first strike had destroyed one house, and that a second strike on the same target had killed 17 people, including three women and children, who had gathered outside to look at the bombed house.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=12004 (377 words)

	sciforums.com - Mulla-Madrassah Terror
		The Taliban, Afghanistan's ousted hard-line Islamist rulers, are active in the district of Zormat in the southeast province of Paktia, where the school was located, but a Taliban spokesman has denied any involvement in last Saturday's attack.
		But Paktia Governor Haji Assadullah Wafa said the mullah whom police want to question had links to the Taliban.
		A source close to the investigation said the mullah, or religious teacher, had not been seen for almost a week.
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=40304 (204 words)

	[ www.azadiradio.org ]
		The letter was faxed to reporters today and was aimed to mark the start of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.
		Governor of southeastern Afghan province of Paktia Assadullah Wafa recently said hundreds of Taliban fighters were willing to lay down their arms.
		Officials said the authorities were in talks with moderate Taliban through the intermediary of tribal leaders.
	www.azadiradio.org /en/news/2005/01/392DB83F-F0CD-48B0-8486-FAB6D95CF0AF.ASP (158 words)

	Kenya Star
		But the U.S. Defense Department disputed the report, suggesting that Assadullah Wafa, governor of Konar Province, had confused that man with the rescued soldier.
		Wafa said a U.S. air strike on Chechal village killed a number of civilians.
		The Defense Department said it regrets the deaths but maintained the bombing was aimed at a terrorist target.
	story.kenyastar.com /p.x/ct/9/cid/b8de8e630faf3631/id/ab50a97fe88690ac (176 words)

	NewsFromRussia.Com:Bomb explosion in Afghanistan: 2 killed, 2 wounded
		Lane initially said only one person had been killed in the attack, but a statement issued Thursday said an Afghan employed by the military was also killed.
		Provincial Gov. Assadullah Wafa said the bomb had been detonated by remote control.
		He blamed "enemies of Afghanistan" for the attack, a term commonly used to refer to Taliban rebels.
	newsfromrussia.com /world/2005/12/29/70674_.html (302 words)

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		Meanwhile, the US military has said it regrets that civilians were killed in an air strike by US forces in eastern Afghanistan.
		Mr Wafa has called the bombing a "mistake" and called for an investigation into how it happened.
		In a statement, the US said it regretted the loss of innocent life but maintained that it struck a valid target, and that enemy "terrorists" were among those killed.
	www.michaelmoore.com /words/index.php?id=3205 (325 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Afghan militia to guard border with Pakistan
		Local Afghan officials told reporters that al-Qaida and the Taliban were believed to run training camps on the Pakistani side of the border.
		âThey come across to launch attacks in Afghanistan and then run back,â Kunar province governor Assadullah Wafa told the Associated Press.
		Wafa also said that local residents were supporting militants.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=14377 (209 words)

	Two American Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan - Elites TV - Your Elite News Source
		The attack took place in Kunar province near the regional capital Asadabad according to Sergeant Major Larry Lane, a military spokesman.
		Provincial Governor Assadullah Wafa immediately blamed 'enemies of Afghanistan' which usually refers to Taliban guerillas.
		The region where the incident took place, Kunar province, is believed to be a hideout for numerous terrorists and pro-Taliban forces.
	www.elitestv.com /pub/2005/Dec/EEN43b2b25661545.html (186 words)

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