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Members of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS have kidnapped thousands of women and girls in their raids on non-Sunni Muslim towns and villages across northern Syria and western Iraq.Many of the captives are believed to be sold, traded or even gifted as sex slaves by salomon hombre the group s fighters. A video posted to YouTube on November 1 purportedly shows a room full of ISIS militants eagerly awaiting a slaves market, and boasting about the number of young women they intend to purchase. The scene is jovial and slightly chaotic. It would appear, however, that ISIS requires its rank and file to f adidas campus 80s ollow a strict code of conduct in the matter of stealing young women and trading them like cattle for sexual gratification.Early air max 2 this month, a document surfaced on jihadist web forums and social media, attributed to ISIS own Religious Edicts Council, aimed at clearing up any lingering doubts its followers might have about the rules governing slavery. An image of the document circulated online offering rules for ISIS members on the taking and keeping of women as sex slaves. The pamphlet, which is presented in question and answer form, lists 21 clarifications on everything from which women are okay to abduct and force into slavery essentially any unbelieving women or girls, which likely translates to any non-Sunni Muslims , to the absurdly detailed, May a man kiss the female slave of another, with the owner s permission The answer to tha Kext Next few months crucial for Ukraine s spring counteroffensive, top Pentagon officials say
The U.S. military apologized Saturday for the friendly fire killing here of eight Iraqi policemen and a Jordanian guard, but anger washed over the people of this turbulent Sunni Triangle city as they buried their dead in scenes that may presage a new cycle of bloodshed for American troops in the country s most troubled region.Iraqi policemen who survived the shootout near Fallujah in the wee hours of Friday, meanwhile, recounted how they begged the American soldiers to stop sh stanley termosy ooting, screaming in Arabic and English that they were police. The Amer stanley becher icans kept firing volley after volley from big and small guns, they said from their hospital beds Saturday, and the fusillade raged for a half hour, they said, as more men died and more men groaned in pain from their wounds.Gunfire into the air erupted throughout Fallujah, a city of 200,000 people 30 miles west of Baghdad, as residents gathered to bury the eight policemen, whose flag-draped coffins were carried into a mosque for religious rites before they were given to family members for burial.In an ominous message, Fawzi Namiq, the mosque s imam, said through loudspeakers: Save your bullets for the chests of the enemy. The U.S. military issued an apology for the incident - the worst case of friendly fire since major hostilit stanley cup ies in Iraq were declared over May 1 - and offered condolences to the victims families. An investigation had begun, it said. Angry Fallujah residents roughed up reporters who were in the city to witne

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A gold-plated AK-47 believed to have been owned by former Iraqi PresidentSaddam Hussein is to go on public display for the first time. Hussein and his sons gave the gleaming rifle to people they wanted to influence, according to the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, northern England, which will be displaying the weapon as part of a new exhibition from Dec. 16.The museum says the assault rifle came from a royal palace in Iraq. Curator Jonathan Ferguson inspects a golden AK-47 before the opening of the Re:Loaded exhibition at The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds, England adidas sambarose Royal Armouries Museum It was discovered by British customs officers at Heathrow Airport in 2003, according to a newspaper report at the time, along with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, six bayonets and a sniper rifle. The weapons were reportedly in containers marked as containing computer equipment.The Re:Loaded exhibit at the armouries museum examines the crossover of guns and art. It will open almost exactly 20 years after Hussein was captured by U.S. forces on Dec. 13, 2003.Iraq war trauma still fresh 20 years after the U.S.-led invasion Ladies and gentlemen, we got him, U.S. coalition authority boss Paul Bremer said at a news conference yeezy eight months after U.S. troops controversially invaded Iraq. Three years later, in December 2006, Hussein, refusin samba shoes g to wear a hood, was hanged on tel Fxqo Former CIA official: New shoe bomb alert suggests screening flaw found
MIAMI Months of increased tension at the Guantanamo Bay prison boiled over into a clash between guards and detainees Saturday as the military closed a communal section of the facility and moved its in kubki stanley mates into single cells.The violence erupted during an early morning raid that military officials said was necessary because prisoners had covered up security cameras and windo stanley termohrnek ws as part of a weekslong protest and hunger strike over their indefinite confinement and conditions at the U.S. base in Cuba.Prisoners fought guards with makeshift weapons that included broomsticks and mop handles when troops arrived to move them out of a communal wing of the section of the prison known as Camp 6, said Navy Capt. Robert Durand, a military spokesman. Guards responded by firing four less-than-lethal rounds, he said.Pentagon: Nearly 1-in-4 Gitmo detainees on hunger strike Attorney: Guantanamo detainee skin and bones General calls Guantanamo hunger strikers frustrated There were no serious injuries from the rounds, which included a modified shotgun shell that fires small rubber pellets as well as a type of bean-bag projectile, said Army Col. Greg Julian, a spokesman for Miami-based U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the prison at the U.S. base in Cuba. I know for sure that one detainee was hit but the injuries were minor, just some bruises, Julian said.The confrontation came a day after a team from the International Committee of the Red Cross finished a stanley cups three-week visit to Guantanamo t

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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, says he will introduce a bill to declare war on Islamic State in Iraq and Syria ISIS once Congress comes back into session in December. He ll also use the same bill to terminate the authority granted by the 2002 Iraq Authorization for Use of Military Force AUMF and set a date for expiration of the 2001 AUMF. In a statement, Paul said, I believe the President must come to Congress to begin a war and that Congress has a duty to act. Right now, this war is illegal until Congress acts pursuant to the Constitution and authorizes it. President Obama has been prosecuting the war on I adidas originals mujer SIS without explicit authorization by Congress. His justification has been that he has the power to act under the 2001 AUMF. A senior administration adidas original campus official, quoted by Time, a airmax plus sserted that the 2001 AUMF, which authorized force against those nations, organizations, or persons responsible for 9/11, could be applied to U.S. action against ISIS or ISIL, as the administration refers to it because ISIS had been affiliated with al Qaeda in 2004 and is the true inheritor of Usama bin Laden s legacy. After the election, though, the President revisited this stance, saying, I m going to begin engaging Congress over a new Authorization to Use Military Force against ISIL. The world needs to know we are united behind this effort, and the men and women of our military deserve our clear and unified support. Democrats -- and now Paul -- have been pressing for a new AUMF that is s Kuxc Israel expands offensive in northern Gaza with new ground operation, says civilians won t be allowed back
Facing a major assault in Fallujah, insurgents struck back Saturday with suicide car bombs, mortars and rockets across a wide swath of central Iraq, killing over 30 people and wounding more than 60 others, including stanley france more than a dozen Americans.Those attacks, which included use of police vehicles in car-bombings, could have been aimed at relieving pressure on Fallujah, where about 10,000 American troops are massing for a major assault.Web site postings late Saturday claimed responsibility for several attacks in the name of an al Qaeda-linked group believed holed up in Fallujah.U.S. jets pounded Fallujah early Saturday in the heaviest airstrikes in six months - including five 500-pound bombs dropped on suspected insurgent targets. Residents reported U.S. artillery fire late Saturday in southern parts of the city.The deadliest attacks Saturday occurr stanley cup ed in Samarra, a city 60 miles north of Baghdad that U.S. and Iraqi commanders have touted as model for pacifying restive Sunni Muslim areas of the country. Insurgents stormed stanley bottles a police station, triggered at least two suicide car bombs and fired mortars at government installations. One of the car bombs, which targeted the mayor s office, used a stolen Iraqi police vehicle, the U.S. military said. Twenty-nine people, including 17 police and 12 Iraqi civilians, were killed throughout Samarra, the U.S. military said. Arabic language television stations said more than 30 died as gangs of insurgents roamed the city, clashing with Am

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WASHINGTON -- Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with President Donald Trump the first full week of April, a senior State Department official said Tuesday.The first in-person encounter between the leaders comes after Trump sharply criticized China du af1 ring the presidential campaign. But he is now seeking Beijing af1 rsquo help in pressuring North Korea over its nu salomon mujer clear weapons and missile programs.Trump and Xi also are likely to discuss the U.S. presidentrsquo threats to counter what he claims are unfair Chinese trade practices. Trump has promised to raise import taxes on Chinese goods and declare Beijing a currency manipulator. Itrsquo unclear if Trump will follow on either threat while seeking Chinarsquo cooperation on North Korea.Though the White House hasnrsquo;t formally announced Xirsquo visit, the leaders are expected to gather at Trumprsquo Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida - where Trump hosted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in February.The State Department official confirmed the timing of Xirsquo trip while discussing Secretary of State Rex Tillersonrsquo upcoming travel plans. Tillerson had planned to skip a meeting of NATO foreign ministers scheduled for April 5-6 so he could attend Xirsquo meeting with Trump, the official said. The NATO gathering in Brussels was rescheduled for Friday so Tillerson could attend, said the official, who briefed reporters on a conference call on condition of anonymity even though Trump has criticized med Jafe Ex-nurse admits killing 8 seniors in her care with insulin
TOKYO 151; Japan s embattled prime minister said Thursday that he will consider resigning once efforts to recover from the country s triple disasters takes hold.Prime Minister Naoto Kan, facing a no-confidence vote in parliament later Thursday, told members of his deeply divided party that he feels it is his duty to carry on leading the recovery. Once the post-quake reconstruction efforts are settled, I will pass on my responsibility to younger generations, he said. The nuclear crisis is o stanley tumbler ngoing, and I will make my utmost efforts to end the crisis and move forward with post-quake reconstruction works. Complete coverage: Disaster in JapanKan, who became prime minister just a year ago, has been criticized for delays in construction of temporary housing for evacuees from the March 11 disaster, lack of transparency about evacuation information, and a perceived lack of leadership. On Wednesday, the largest opposition group, the Liberal Democratic Party, submitted the no-confidence motion along with two smaller opposition groups.Although his Democratic Party of Japan controls the powerful lower house of parliament, where the no-confidence motion was submitted, dozens of ruling party lawmakers have expressed conce stanley becher rn with his leadership, creating a deep rift.The vote was expec stanley polska ted to be very close. One of the top powerbrokers in Kan s party announced Wednesday he was going to support the opposition motion, a major blow to Kan.The motion and the ruling party split have furth

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PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico -- A U.S. man is being held in the death of his American girlfriend in the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen, Mexican adidas campus shoes authorities said Sunday.Federal police identified him as John Loveless, 59, but did not give h adidas campus herren is hometown. A police statement said he was detained at the Cancun airport before he was to board a flight to Atlanta.The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City confirmed the death in Pl air force 1 aya del Carmen of an American citizen it identified as Tamra Turpin, but also would not give her hometown. It offered condolences and said it was providing consular assistance in the case.The embassy said it was aware of reports that a U.S. citizen had been detained, but referred further questions to Mexican authorities.According to the prosecutors office in Quintana Roo state, where both Playa del Carmen and Cancun are located, Loveless faces a criminal homicide investigation in the death of the woman. It said the suspect was in a relationship with the victim. The woman was found dead Wednesday in a condo the couple rented, and a forensic examination concluded she died of asphyxia by strangulation.The suspect was in custody in Playa del Carmen. Appearing before a judge Friday, he declined to make an official declaration in the case, and it was not clear whether he had a local attorney.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Turpin, 36, was from Union, Missouri, which is about 50 miles 80 kilometers west of St. Louis. The newspaper quoted family member Alxq Rescuers save Indonesians trapped by tigers for 5 days
The Bush administration didn t ease its hard-line tactics for interrogating terror suspects until after concerns were raised repeatedly by State Department and military officials worried about violating international and U.S. law, memos released by the White House show.In an order less than four months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President Bush said the Geneva Conventions on treatment of prisoners did not apply to al Qaeda and Taliban suspects such as those imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Bush s order in February 2002 followed the advice of Justice Department lawyers who argued the conventions couldn t apply to an international terrorist group or militia members who did not follow the laws of war themselves.On the losing side of the argument: Secretary of State Colin Powell, who vigorously stanley cup price opposed carving out exceptions to the Geneva Conventions.Doing so, Powell wrote to the top White House lawyer in January 2002, will reverse over a century of U.S. policy and practice in suppor stanley flask ting the Geneva conventions and undermine the protections of the law of war for our troops, both in this specific conflict and in general. Bush ordered that all prisoners be treated humanely and, to the extent appropriate and consistent with military necessity, in line with the principles of the G stanley cup usa eneva Conventions. But at the same time he reserved the right to suspend the conventions in this or future conflicts. By the fall of 2002, military officers were seeking guida

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New Updates 11:31 PM / March 5, 2022 Russian plane lands in U.S. to pick up expelled diplomats mizuno laufschuhe The Biden administration on Saturday authorized the landing of a Russian aircraft at Dulles International Airport. The plane will be used to repatriate dunks the 12 Russian officials from their mission to the U.N. in New York as well as a Russian national working for the U.N. who have been accused by the U.S. of engaging in espionage and declared personae adidas samba non gratae mdash; a diplomatic term meaning no longer welcome.President Biden had previously announced in his State of the Union address that he was closing U.S. airspace to Russian aircraft.The plane on Sunday afternoon will fly from Dulles to JFK International Airport in New York, a Russian Mission spokesperson told CBS News. Once in New York, it will pick up the 13 Russian nationals who have been accused of spying, as well as their families and a group of other Russian Mission staff who are also returning home.The diplomatic expulsions were in the works for several months, the U.S. Mission to the U.N. said, and are happening at a time of heightened tension between the U.S. and Russia over military attacks in Ukraine. By Pamela Falk Hqyn Thousands in Egypt defy curfews, protest Morsi
A Russian Il-86 cargo plane crashed into a forest Sunday shortly after taking off from Moscow s Sheremetyevo-1 airport, killing 14 people. There were two survivors, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.The broken fuselage was visible in a ditch in a wooded area of birch trees and bushes several hundred meters from one of the airport s runways. stanley thermos Smoke was still rising from the smoldering wreckage. About two dozen ambulances and fire trucks were racing around the scene of the crash.Vasily Nayuk, an official with the Emergency Situations Ministry said that according to preliminary information 14 people were killed and two stewardesses had survived and were hospitalized in critical condition.The four-engined Ilyushin Il-86, Russia s answer to the jumbo jet and capable of carrying up to 350 passengers, had returne stanley cup d from the Black Sea resort of Sochi. The Pulkovo Airlines jet was setting off to its home base in St Petersburg, empty but for the flight and cabin crews, officials at St Petersburg airport told Reuters. Although air safety standards in the former Soviet Union have been under scrutiny for years, aerospace industry data indicated that this was the first fatal crash of an Il-86 since it entered service in 1980. A reporter for Russia s NTV television said he saw the plane climb sharply from Sheremetyevo-1, the Moscow terminal used mainly for domestic flights, and then drop out of the sky on to stanley tumblers its tail into a nearby forest. A series of explosions followed, and a hu

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Australian police said Thursday they had busted a drug trafficking ring dubbed The Commission that brought more than a ton of cocaine into the country in just a few months.Six men aged between 2 crocs hausschuhe 5 and 34 were arrested in raids that turned up more than 30 kilograms of cocaine, including 20 kilograms that had been stuffed in a bag and tossed over a fence, New South Wales Police Force said in a news release. Police alleged this was a mere fraction of the total adidas originals mujer supply, alleging the group had shifted 1.2 tons of cocaine between February and July this year. Police claimed t adidas campus donna hat the street value of the drugs was about US$1 billion. Police said detectives executed 20 search warrants at homes across Sydney early Wednesday morning. In addition to the cocaine, detectives allegedly seized 10 cars, $800,000 in cash, a Rolex watch, four guns, two ballistic vests and multiple electronic devices. Police said officers allegedly found 12 kilograms of cocaine in hidden compartments in the vehicles. Police claimed that the street value of the drugs was about US$1 billion. NSW Police Organized crime detective Peter Faux said the group had played the role of government, bank and economy to Sydney s criminal underworld, through an ambitious pace of cocaine imports. These arrests today will result in many criminals becoming unemployed as the large-scale drug supply that finances thei Pktb Japan switches on ice wall to pen radioactive leaks
France Telecom says an employee at its research and development center in the Brittany town of Lannion has committed suicide at his home - the 25th at the company in some 18 months.The death comes two days after a France Telecom employee in Marseille was saved at the last minute from taking his life. Unions blame the suicides on stress likely due to restructuring.Company chief Didier Lombard was paying a visit to the Lannion op stanley mug eration after learning that a 48-year-old employee took his life Thursday at his home. The company said the employee had been out sick for a month.Unions called for protests Oct. 20 to press for better work conditions. The former state-run company laid off some 22,000 people in 2006-2008.The global economic slump has driven up suicides in other countries like Japan, which has one of the highest stanley cup suicide rates in the world. stanley thermos However, the weak economy and job losses are not the only contributor to suicides.Take, for example, Greenland, which has the highest suicide rate in the world - 24 times higher than in the United States, according to Slate magazine. Suicide rates there increase during the summer, leading researchers to speculate that insomnia caused by incessant daylight may be to blame. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-98f08610-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-98f08610-8c88-11e2-b

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STOCKHOLM - Famous for its efforts to put women on an equal footing with men, Sweden is experiencing a gender balance shift that has caught the country by surprise: For the first time since record-keeping began in 1749, it now has more men than women.Swedes don t quite know what to make of this sudden male surplus, which is highly unusual in the West, where women historically have been in the majority in almost every country. But it may be a sign of things to come in Europe as changes in life expectancy and migration transform demographics. This is a novel phenomenon for Europe, said Francesco Billari, a University of Oxford demographer who is president of the European Association for Population Studies. We as researchers have not been on top of this. The tipping point in Sweden happe adidas og ned in March last year, when population statist adidas campus 00 ics showed 277 more men than women. The gap has since grown to beyond 12,000. While that s still small in a population of almost 10 million, it s not unreasonable to suspect that Sweden will have a big male surplus in the future, said Tomas Johansson, a population expert at the national statistics agency, SCB.Despite a natural birth rate of a adidas originals bout 105 boys born for every 100 girls, European women have historically outnumbered men because they live longer. An Associated Press analysis of national and European Union population statistics suggests women will remain in the majority in most European countries for decades to come. But the number of men Tkyy Iraqi POW Death Under Scrutiny
Responding to reports of continued violence in Tehran, following a warning by Iran s Supreme Leader that further election protests stanley canada may lead to bloodshed and chaos, President Barack Obama said today, The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching.With the tensions rising in Iran, Mr. Obama is monitoring the situation with senior advisors, but he continues to maintain his reserve on the topic. Rather than directly criticizing the Iranian government s actions, he expressed more lofty thoughts. In a statement released this afternoon by the White House, the president said, We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights. As I said in Cairo, suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. I stanley mugs f the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion. Martin Luthe stanley cup r King once said, The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. I believe that. The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness to the Iranian peoples belief in that truth, and we will continue to bear witness. As t

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Afghanistan s Taliban rulers have issued a special decree outlining women s rights under the regime, but getting an education or a job are not among them. The United States welcomed the decree but noted that more was needed to ensure women s rights in Afghanistan. Women s rights activists in the country were entirely unimpressed, meanwhile, dismissing the new proclamation issued on Friday as Taliban posturing intended for the international community, not Afghan women. The decree, attributed to Taliban supreme leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, bans child marriage and states that no one can force a woman to marry by coercion or pressure. Child marriage and forced marriages are common across much of rural Afghanistan and have been for centuries mdash; even under the U.S.-backed government that held sway for 20 years until the Taliban s takeover in the summer. Girls are often given away as brides to resolve disputes and settle debts between rival tribes and families. Low-income families will commonly marry their young girls to much older men in exchange for a large payment or dowry. nike air force Former envoy to Afghanistan on the fate of girls under Taliban 02:06 mizuno In 2018 and 2019, in the western provinces of He crocs rat and Badghis alone, UNICEF registered 183 cases of child marriages and 10 instances of childre Ibah U.S. ditches limits on bringing in Cuban cigars, rum
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali made a sentimental journey Tuesday to discover his Irish roots, and met distant relatives during celebrations at the local town hall and a nearby castle.Thousands lined the streets of Ennis, western Ireland, to cheer the motorcade carrying Ali as the three-time worl stanley cup d heavyweight champion visited the home of his great-grandfather Abe Grady.Fans adorned streets with red, white and blue USA bunting and flags, while shop windows competed to display the most impressive posters honoring Ali - including one tongue-in-cheek portrait of him appearing ready to knock out an unpopular Irish politician.Ali, who is 67 and battling Parkinson s disease, offered a few playful jabs to cameras but made no public comments and steered clear of throngs of autograph-seekers, among them hundreds of kids whose schools closed early for the event. Police blocked off roads and kept crowds in line with railings.Grady settled in Kentucky in the 1860s and married a freed slave. stanley mug One of their grandchildren, Odessa Lee Grady Clay, gave birth to Ali - then Cassius Clay - in 1 stanley quencher 942. Genealogists pinpointed Ali s Irish links in 2002, but Ali had never visited Ennis before.His visit to Ennis Town Hall was broadcast live on big-screen televisions outside, where locals also took in a live concert by Irish traditional musicians, including best-selling accordionist Sharon Shannon.Ali s wife, Yolanda, said her husband s Irish blood might help explain his legendary ability to bludgeon hi

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London mdash; Britain on Tuesday recorded its first ever temperature over the 40 degrees Celsius mark 104 Fahrenheit , a landmark that many in the U.K. thought would take years longer to reach. The mercury provisionally registered 40.2C at Heathrow Airport, the country s meteorological agency, the Met Office, said. The new record was set within an hour of Britain passing its previous all-time high temperature of about 102 degrees, registered in eastern England in 2019.The same heat wave is fueling damaging wildfires across southern France, Spain, Italy and Portugal, driving tens of thousands of people from their homes. nike af adidas samba Wildfires rage in Spain and France amid heat wave 02:12 But the extreme temperatures are especially shocking for the U.K., where neither the people nor the infrastructure are prepared for such heat. Only about 5% of British homes are thought to have air-conditioning. adidas samba The countries further south have suffered the most this week, however.With firefighters in Spain scrambling to put out dozens of wildfires from the ground and by air, desperate residents have tried to step in to battle the flames. Video caught the moment that one farmer s clothing caught on fire as he tried to dig a trench to stop the blaze approaching his property. He managed to run away, but was badly burned. Hdkd Libyan regime releases 3 captured Dutch marines
The American-led effort stanley tumbler to gain control of southern Afghanistan is off to a slow start and the political clock is ticking as U.S. troops head into what could be the bloodiest fight yet in the eight-year war.The U.S. and its NATO allies last week set a goal of starting to transfer control of Afghanistan to the central government by the end of the year, and President Obama has said U.S. troops must sta stanley cup rt leaving in 2011.But the slow pace of progress makes it less likely Obama can meet these tight deadlines, and it s not clear if he can buy more time: He has struggled to persuade Congress to commit troops based on the current schedule.The expanded U.S. campaign began in late winter in the small farming hamlets of Marjah, in Helmand Province, and has advanced more slowly than expected, officials said.CBSNews Special Report: Afghanist stanley cup an Now U.S. and NATO troops face a much more formidable task: securing Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban and the area from which al Qaeda planned the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander in Afghanistan, has described the campaign in Afghanistan s south as a slowly rising tide that will require time and patience. He and other military officials also have warned of an inevitable rise in casualties. I think we ve been very clear for months now that this was going to be a very difficult fight in the south, and tried to set expectations, as tragic as it is, for these losses, Adm. Mike Mullen, Obama s top milit