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The Kandahar Bubble: Where Afghanistan Meets the Jersey Shore (Time.com)

July 5th, 2010

Time.com - With an incredibly busy flight schedule and tens of thousands of residents, the NATO base is nothing like the country it’s in. But what’s that funny smell?

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Car bomb hits outside NATO base in Kandahar city (AP)

May 26th, 2010

A private security guard stands near a site of a car bomb explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 26, 2010. A car bomb exploded Wednesday outside a small NATO military base in southern Afghanistan's largest city, wounding two Afghans and destroying several cars, police said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - A car bomb exploded Wednesday outside a small NATO military base in southern Afghanistan’s largest city, wounding two Afghans and destroying several cars, police said.


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Rocket attack kills 1 at NATO base in Afghanistan (AP)

March 15th, 2010

Friends and relatives of the victims of blast on Saturday offer prayers during a condolence gathering in Kandahar north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 15, 2010. Kandahar provincial Gov. Tooryalai Wesa told reporters that he had asked the central government in Kabul for more Afghan troops to protect the city in the run-up to the expected offensive in the province, which is the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)AP - An early morning rocket attack on the largest U.S. military hub in Afghanistan killed one person Monday, NATO said. In the east, meanwhile, Afghan authorities thwarted three would-be…