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Show DAILY HERALD Monday. August. 25, 2008 A3 Rise in U.S. deaths shows Talibans new strength mi vM 'vi. .1 I ' - i As long as those areas re-main havens where fighters ' arm, train, recruit and plot Tai- increasingly sophisticated amKABUL, Afghanistan wan insurgents once derided bushes, the Afghan war will as a ragtag rabble unable to continue to sour. match U.S. troops have transThe US is now losing formed into a fighting force the war against the Taliban, one advanced enough to Anthony Cordesman, of the mount massive conventional Center for Washington-baseattacks and claim American Strategic and International ' lives at a record pace.. Studies, wrote in a report The U S. military suffered Thursday. A resurgent its 101st death of the year in da, which was harbored by the Taliban in the years before the Afghanistan last week when Sgt. 1st QasDavid J, Todd Sept. 11 attacks, could soph Jr., a 3fryeardd from Marrefollow, Cordesman warned. Cordesman called for the ro, La., died of gunfire wounds while helping train Afghan po- US to treat Pakistani terri-- ; lice in the northwest. The total tory as a combat zone if Paki- -. number of U.S. dead last year stan docs not act. Pakistan " 111 was a record itself may officially be an ally, but and is likely to be surpassed. much of its conduct has effec- -' Top US. generals, European tively made.it a major threat ; to US strategic interests. presidents and analysts say , An influx of Chechen, Turkthe blame lies to the east, in militant sanctuaries in neighish, Uzbek and Arab fighters have helped increased the boring Pakistan. .i & .v ' S. WAMtENAssociatad Proas d artist Malcolm Farley points q portrait of presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Saturday in Denver. Denver-bate- Obama, Clinton ready for David Espo slightly more comfortable lead for the Democrat. If Democratic unity was DENVER On the eve of. uppermost in the minds of the Democratic National Com Obama's aides, McCain had vent ion, Barack Obama said other ideas. The Republican presidential Sunday he hoped a week of contender's campaign read-- . political speechmaking would ied a television commercial persuade reluctant middle-clas- s voters to swing behind his bid there was no immediate for the White House, while Re- evidence it had been broad-- . publicans sought to stir discon- cast suggesting Obama tent among Hillary Rodham had snubbed Clinton when he . Clinton's supporters. picked Delaware Sen. Joseph . Biden as his vice presidential Clinton wps having none of it. In a gesture of unity, running mate. She won millions of votes Obama'; rival in the bruising battle for the nomination was but isn't on the ticket. Why? For speaking the truth," says expected to release the delegates she won in primaries and the ad, which also shows Clinton criticizing Obama during . caucuses, telling them in mid' week, they are now free to join their protracted battle for the Democratic presidential nornF . her in supporting the victor. ... Obama, bidding to become , nation. The former first lady has the first black president, campaigned through swing-statpraised Biden's selection. In Wisconsin, then flew home response to the ad, spokeswoman Kathleen Strand noted to Chicago to work on the ac- ceptance speech he will deliver that Clinton has said repeat-- . before 75,000 partisans on the edly that Barack Obama and she share a commitment to convention's closing night. Previewing the week ahead, changing the direction of the ' he said he hoped convention country, getting us out of Iraq viewers would conclude, He's and expanding access to health sort of like us. He comes from care. John McCain doesn't. Its a middle-clas- s background, interesting how those remarks went to school cm scholarships, didn't make it into his ad." He and his wife had to figure : The first arrests of the conout child care and how to start vention week were reported a college fund for their kids." ' when about 1,000 anti-wClinton out polled Obama demonstrators marched voters in through downtown under the among working-clas- s many states through the win- - , watchful eye of police in ter and spring, and Sen. John .: gear. Officials did not McCain and the Republicans ; immediately provide details on the number of those taken into have worked relentlessly in more recent weeks to depict. ; custody, or even confirm that the Illinois senator.as an elitist those arrested had taken part in the march. who is out of touch with blue- collar concerns.. With Democrats descend-iit- g on their highly fortified convention city, party officials worked energetically to assure a harmonious week. . Thousands of blue signs that read simply Unity" were stockpiled inside the Pepsi Center for distribution to conven-- . tion delegates at whatever moment Obama's high command deemed appropriate, , And on a unanimous vote, the party's credentials commit- -' tee restored full voting rights ' ' to delegations from Florida and Michigan. Bath states were stripped of their voting rights earlier in the year in retaliation for holding primaries before party rules allowed. , ' .The Democrats were meeting with public opinion polls giving Obama a modest ad-vantage at best in the race to become the nation's 44th president. McCain has been on the political offense in recent : weeks, and he has successfully cut into what had been a . . d ir: 1 TEO Jason Straziuso THi ASSOCIATED PRESS . . . Taliban's military precision, expanding in the Pakistani tribal areas, tien. David including an ambush by 100 McKiernan, the Amcrkan fighters last week that killed four-sta- r 10 French soldiers, and a rush general in charge of NATO-le- d on a U.S. outpost last month the 50,000-stron- g force here, told The Assrx-i-ateby 200 militants that killed lYess last week. McKinine Americans. n ernan has called for another attacks, flawlessly executed ambushes three brigades of U.S. forces and increasingly powerful to roughly 10,(100 troops roadside and suicide bombs bolster the 3.1.IMH) strong U.S. force here.. mean the U.S. and NATO-le-d force will in all likeComplicating relations be- lihood suffer its deadliest year tween the Afghan government in Afghanistan since the 2001 and the U.S;, last week a joint invasion. Afghan-U,S- . military ojxration in Herat province killed around ' .. British Prime Minister Cordon Brown, on a visit to Kabul 90 civilians. lYesident I lamid last week, said he knows that Karzai's off ice says. Tlje US, ' said it was investigating. something must be raised with Pakistans government, Some 188 internal kmul sol- j and 1 will continue to do so. diets have died in Afghanistan 101 Nicolas French President this year, including the ' ' Americans, according to art Sarkozy, who rushed to Af- the French This after Press Associated count. ghanistan ' attack, warned Thursday that year's toll is easily on track to terrorism is winning. surpass the record 22 interna-- . tkxial troop deaths in 2007. Military sanctuaries are. Multi-directio- : . , . . .. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . Sun and sewage are signs of progress in Kenyan slum ... The stench rising NAIROBI, Kenya from a fly infested sewage ditch is worsened by the scorching sun. But for some enterprising residents, it's the smell of progress.. People in Nairobi's Kibefa slum are surviving soaring food and fuel prices and poor sanitation by harnessing the power' of two things they have in plenty; sewage and sunshine. Some have helped construct network of public latrines that recycle human . waste into gas far cooking and light. Others, assisted by a Swiss aid organization, use sunlight to purify drinking water, dramatically slashing cases of water- - .' borne disease. Theres an urgent need for projects like these.. For up to a million residents in Kibefa, its harder than ever to scrape together a dollar for cornflour and wilted cabbage for one meal a day. Staple food prices in the capital have doubled in six months. And the price of coal for cooking has increased by a quarter. The biolatrines are built next to a , school for orphans. Around 600 people use them, generating enough gas to code for 68 orphans next door and provide hot water for a shower block serving hun- dreds of people. ' Before the biogas came, the kids were just having cold washes in the winter and now they have hot water at school they dont have so many colds, said Bernard ' Asanya, the school director. 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