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December 2006 Saddam's end: tormented as he waited for death Taunted by guards during his final hours The Sunday Telegraph, 31 December 2006 Hands tied behind his back, feet bound, Saddam Hussein shuffled on to the red-painted metal gallows for his execution yesterday. A shadow of his arrogant former self, he looked bemused, beaten. Nato will be fighting the Taliban for years, says top general The Sunday Telegraph, 31 December 2006 NATO forces will have to remain in Afghanistan for years if they are to defeat the Taliban, one of the coalition's top generals in the country has warned. Freed jihadis put Pakistan's war on terror 'back to square one' The Sunday Telegraph, 31 December 2006 Anti-terrorism forces in Pakistan have been told to brace themselves for a wave of atrocities. Intelligence officials warned that the security situation is now more precarious than it was before the September 11 attacks on New York and ...
Struggling to sit up, Frederic Couture surveyed his torn trouser leg and the bloodied strips of flesh which were all that remained of his foot. A landmine had exploded, blowing the rest of it away. "I'm 21-years-old and I've lost my foot,'' he cried. "What am I going to do now?''
'We must convince our people that the Taliban are no longer a threat' The Sunday Telegraph, 17 December 2006 Five years after the fall of the Taliban, the Afghan army is embroiled in a fight to the death with the supporters of the deposed regime.
THE TALIBAN were out there, somewhere in the darkness to the north of the jagged peaks of Masum Gar, just the other side of the Arghandab river. They had fired one rocket. Now they were ready to fire again.
THE TALIBAN can attack Nato troops in southern Afghanistan whenever it wants, despite months of intense fighting, British military commanders have admitted.
Tony Blair admits Darfur is a tragedy. So why is he sending this gang-rape victim back to her attackers? The Sunday Telegraph, 3 December 2006 The Home Office is at the centre of a fresh row over its handling of asylum applications after it emerged that hundreds of people who have fled the slaughter in the Darfur region of Sudan have been told by officials that it is safe to return to their homes.
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'The
blast left the soldier on his back, staring at the mess of his leg'
Gethin Chamberlain witnesses the perils faced by a Nato patrol in
southern Afghanistan
Afghan
army takes fight to Taliban's heartland Gethin Chamberlain reports
from Masum Gar, Kandahar, on the efforts to quell the insurgency 
Taliban
will fight through the winter, warns British commander