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		<title>A New (Old) Direction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be my very last post on this blog. It&#8217;s taken a lot of phone calls, arm twisting, late nights, cold beers, reactivation of an old network and a dozen meetings with lawyers and accountants but it&#8217;s finally here. I&#8217;ve re-opened the business I was running with two great mates (and thorough professionals) before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kandahardiary.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12343788&#038;post=275&#038;subd=kandahardiary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving On (to God knows where)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 07:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago I resigned from my contract. There are so many reasons I did that – personal and professional – but it finally boiled down to the fact that my heart wasn’t in it anymore and a realisation that , while I felt (and still feel) a sense of duty and responsibility to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kandahardiary.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12343788&#038;post=272&#038;subd=kandahardiary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Centurion Stands Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time tomorrow night I’ll have a cold beer in my hand and a crisp, green, garden salad big enough to choke a horse, in front of me.Today was as different a picture to that as could possibly be. Tanker roll-over, two ambushes, one of my guards shot and killed at close range driving through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kandahardiary.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12343788&#038;post=264&#038;subd=kandahardiary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leave And A Pavlov&#8217;s Dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m out on leave in a few days after first attending an Operations Conference in Dubai. This has been a tough rotation. My ‘Higher’ has stepped up its push for regulatory compliance and it has been a daily battle to implement it while fending off the ‘please explains’ and kicks in the arse. The fact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kandahardiary.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12343788&#038;post=256&#038;subd=kandahardiary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random Thought #561</title>
		<link>http://kandahardiary.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/random-thought-561/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cigarette and time for reflection after another mental day. Same place, same time. Looking up into the dusk sky I could see a contrail high above the dust haze (maybe 35,000 feet) and moving fast. Probably an airliner – unless, I thought fleetingly, it’s a nuke. I watched as the trail passed overhead heading NE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kandahardiary.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12343788&#038;post=244&#038;subd=kandahardiary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Presidential Decree: My Thoughts</title>
		<link>http://kandahardiary.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/a-presidential-decree-my-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The big news around the traps at the moment is Karzai’s announcement that all PSC (local and international) have until 1 Jan 11 to disband and, for the internationals, quit Afghanistan. This is due to the (justifiable) perception that PSCs are running amok, involved in bribery and extortion, are in league – to varying degrees [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kandahardiary.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12343788&#038;post=240&#038;subd=kandahardiary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ramadan: The Insurgent View</title>
		<link>http://kandahardiary.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/ramadan-the-insurgent-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ramadan has started and, with it, a noticeable up-tick in insurgent activity. INT is telling us of suicide bomber teams crossing from Pakistan in increased numbers, and ambushes on our convoys have increased along the usual bad spots (Hawz-e Madad – Zheray, Qalay-e Now). Insurgent assassination teams are roaming Kandahar City looking for opportunities to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kandahardiary.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12343788&#038;post=236&#038;subd=kandahardiary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random Thought #505</title>
		<link>http://kandahardiary.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/random-thought-505/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dust in the air made sunset tonight a spectacular affair. The sky, streaked with long tendrils of cloud, was lit blood-red by the setting sun which, itself, dropped like a glowing coal behind a row of dunes. As I sat smoking (in my usual spot) and reflecting on the day, the muezzin in my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kandahardiary.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12343788&#038;post=231&#038;subd=kandahardiary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KAF Attacked</title>
		<link>http://kandahardiary.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/kaf-attacked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At around 1200 today two rockets impacting in KAF preceded a ground attack from the southwest that involved a tractor packed with explosives and attempt to breach the perimeter wall. The fire fight went on for about an hour, with KAF responding with ground forces and gunships before the bad guys fled – apparently getting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kandahardiary.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12343788&#038;post=225&#038;subd=kandahardiary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Highway To Hell: Part 2</title>
		<link>http://kandahardiary.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/highway-to-hell-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another bad few days on HWY 1. More KIA from small arms fire, RPGs and IEDs.  More WIA with horrendous GSW (mostly to upper body and abdomen).  We are being ambushed or contacted every day and, often, more than twice a day. It used to be rare for the one convoy to be hit twice in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kandahardiary.wordpress.com&#038;blog=12343788&#038;post=220&#038;subd=kandahardiary&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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