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This is an unclassified, For Official Use Only news compilation produced by the US Embassy Kabul Public Affairs Office and distributed by the Open Source Center on 15 August 2015. It was later approved for release by the Central Intelligence Agency in 2018. It gathers Afghan, Pakistani and international press reports on an anti-Pakistan protest in Washington, China's support for Afghan peace talks, the combat debut of Afghan MD-530 helicopters, hostage releases in Ghazni and unemployment in Kunduz. It contains nothing about UFOs.
Print Mcssagc(s) Approved f_or Release: 2018/09/04 C06708887 V Page 5 of 49 , I -UNCLASSIFIEDUFGU-Q~ -Khaama Press 15 August 2015 1 Q "91 Insurgents Killed, 34 Villages Cleared in Nangarhar": A police official in Nangarhar Province said that 91 insurgents were killed in ' a large—scale military operation that was carried out by security personnel in Hesarak, Sherzad and;Khoghyani districts. He added that - A y ' |~ ‘ " -five soldiers and one policeman were wounded in the operation. -TOLOnews 15 August 20151 _ . -1 _v _ Table of Contents Top News .- _ g Y 1 Afghan police arrest five over public beating VidQOir Reuters 15 August 2015 ' . 4 ‘_ . » Kabul —— Afghan police arrested_five people near the northern town ~ of -a ’ Sar—e-Pul on Saturday after they were filmed beating a man and his daughter accused of robbery by a village fortune teller, the interior - ~j . -_ 0 '_- ministry said. 5 A _ - .~ ' A video of the brutal public beating, which shows a man hitting a young woman repeatedly with a large stick while a crowd looks on, attracted wide attention on social media and local television. The assault occurred earlier this month after a resident of Thughi village near Sar—e—Pu1 suffered a robbery and consulted a fortune teller to identify the culprit. A ’ _»"1 ' Y y , "The father and daughter were beaten by the village resident after a _ g _ . 4 fortune teller accused them of robbery," the,interior ministry statement said. ’ ' . - In May, film of a young woman being beaten to death’by a mob in Kabul , 1' 1 ’ " g after she was wrongly accused of burning a Koran caused global outrage and underlined the vulnerable position of many women in Afghanistan. _ .__ ' ,_ ~ a - (Reporting by Mirwais Harooni; Writing by James Mackenzie; Editing ‘ UNCLASSHWEDHFGUCL 1 " l V _ .l - ' s/23/2017 Approved for Release: 2018/09/04 C06708887 ’
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 49 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.