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• The horrible massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by a US soldier. That soldier is reportedly being held in Kuwait at the moment.
• Marines peeing on dead Taliban… and videotaping it.
• The Ulema Council’s harsh, restrictive guidelines on women, which was backed by Karzai.
• Today, the Taliban pulled out of preliminary peace talks with the US and back out of establishing an office in Doha.
• One out of every four ISAF deaths this year was at the hands of a member of the Afghan National Security Force.
• The publication of Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis’s report “Dereliction of Duty II” scathingly took on top military brass for their false, rosy presentation of the progress in Afghanistan.

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Picture of the Day. Athens, Greece. A policeman protests in front of parliament. Yes, you read that right. Some police have joined anti-austerity protests today. About 100 uniformed police, coast guard and firemen demonstrated against paycuts.

Read: “Yet More Drama for Greece’s Debt Deal” over at the indispensable Brussels Blog on the Financial Times website.

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Picture of the Day. Afghan security guards warm themselves around a fire near FOB Connolly in Nangarhar Province. March 4th.

Semi-Related LongRead for Today: Matthieu Aikins’ cover story for this month’s GQ, “The Siege of September 13,” about last fall’s attack on the US Embassy in Kabul. 

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